Lexic.us

Definition of Flat

1. Noun. A level tract of land. "The salt flats of Utah"

2. Adjective. Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. "Skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

3. Adverb. With flat sails. "Sail flat against the wind"

4. Noun. A shallow box in which seedlings are started.

5. Adjective. Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness. "Flat computer monitors"

6. Adverb. In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly. "Came out flat for less work and more pay"

7. Noun. A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named.

8. Adjective. Not modified or restricted by reservations. "A flat refusal"

9. Noun. Freight car without permanent sides or roof.

10. Adjective. Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground. "Found himself lying flat on the floor"

11. Noun. A deflated pneumatic tire.

12. Adjective. Lacking contrast or shading between tones.

13. Noun. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting.

14. Adjective. (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone. "B flat"

15. Noun. A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house.

16. Adjective. Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes).

17. Adjective. Lacking taste or flavor or tang. "Vapid tea"

18. Adjective. Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting. "A flat joke"

19. Adjective. Having lost effervescence. "A flat cola"

20. Adjective. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch. "The owl's faint monotonous hooting"

21. Adjective. Horizontally level. "A flat roof"

22. Adjective. Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth. "A flat two-dimensional painting"

23. Adjective. Not reflecting light; not glossy. "A photograph with a matte finish"

24. Adjective. Commercially inactive. "A flat market"

Definition of Flat

1. a. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

2. adv. In a flat manner; directly; flatly.

3. n. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.

4. v. t. To make flat; to flatten; to level.

5. v. i. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

6. a. Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.

Definition of Flat

1. having a smooth or even surface [adj FLATTER, FLATTEST] / to flatten [v FLATTED, FLATTING, FLATS] - See also: flatten

Medical Definition of Flat

1. 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. "Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk." (Milton) 2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. "What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat!" (Milton) "I feel . . . My hopes all flat." (Milton) 3. Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. "A large part of the work is, to me, very flat." (Coleridge) 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. "How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world." (Shak) 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. "Flat burglary as ever was committed." (Shak) "A great tobacco taker too, that's flat." (Marston) 8. Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. 9. Sonant; vocal; applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. Flat arch. A coat of water colour of one uniform shade. To fall flat, to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. "Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott." (Lord Erskine) Origin: Akin to Icel. Flatr, Sw. Flat, Dan. Flad, OHG. Flaz, and AS. Flet floor, G. Flotz stratum, layer. 1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. "Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat." (Bacon) 2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. "Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide." (Shak) 3. Something broad and flat in form; as: A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car. A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc, are carried in processions. 4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge. 5. A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself. 6. A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. 7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. "Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat." (Holmes) 8. A character [ A homaloid space or extension. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat

flash lamp flash memory flash method flash point flash point flash welding flask flask flasket flaskets

flaskful flasking flasks flask closure flat (current term) flat (current term) flat-bellied flat-bottom flat-bottomed flat-coated retriever

flat-footed flat-hat flat-leaf parsley flat-top flat-topped flat-topped white aster Flatau's law Flatau-Schilder disease flatback flatbacks

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