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UK
/flˈæt/
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[ US /ˈfɫæt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫæt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
found himself lying flat on the floor - flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
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commercially inactive
prices remained flat
flat sales for the month
a flat market -
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
the owl's faint monotonous hooting -
horizontally level
a flat roof -
not modified or restricted by reservations
a categorical denial
a flat refusal -
lacking taste or flavor or tang
vapid tea
insipid hospital food
vapid beer
flavorless supermarket tomatoes
a bland diet -
lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
a film with two-dimensional characters
a flat two-dimensional painting -
having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
flat computer monitors -
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
acres of level farmland
skirts sewn with fine flat seams
a flat desk
a plane surface -
having lost effervescence
flat beer
a flat cola -
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
a flat joke
a bland little drama -
(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
B flat -
not reflecting light; not glossy
flat wall paint
a photograph with a matte finish
ADVERB
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with flat sails
sail flat against the wind -
in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
he didn't answer directly
told me straight out
came out flat for less work and more pay
NOUN
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
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a level tract of land
the salt flats of Utah - freight car without permanent sides or roof
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
How To Use flat In A Sentence
- deflate a balloon
- 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. A Renegade History of the United States
- 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.
- It's got the whole indie-hillbilly thing going, with lots of mandolins and footstomping and fuzzy guitars etc but it's all just a little flat.
- Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
- For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)
- Another category of vessels and flatware was distinguished by the use of precious stones or exotic materials, such as coral, mother-of-pearl, or coconut shell.
- Soon the seeds in the inflated seed cases of the yellow rattle will be hard and rattle at a brush.
- The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
- External warts can appear as small bumps, or they may be flat, verrucous, or pedunculated.
