hilly vs flat

Definitions

adjective

1. having hills and crags

Examples

I grew chilly when the fire went out.

I had a garlic chilly mince curry, and she went for a very nice chicken dopiaza.

Suddenly, seeking high office, Liddy Dole was described as over-ambitious, chilly and nasty under the "syrupy" Southern accent.

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Definitions

adjective

1. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
2. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
3. lacking contrast or shading between tones
4. commercially inactive
5. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

adverb

1. with flat sails
2. in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly

noun

1. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
2. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
3. a level tract of land
4. freight car without permanent sides or roof
5. a deflated pneumatic tire

Examples

deflate a balloon

You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.

Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.

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