Definition of Flat

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Definition of Flat

Flat

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

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.

Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.

Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.

Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.

Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.

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.

Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.

In a flat manner; directly; flatly.

Without allowance for accrued interest.

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.

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.

Something broad and flat in form

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.

The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.

A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.

A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.

A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.

A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.

A homaloid space or extension.

To make flat; to flatten; to level.

To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

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

To fall form the pitch.

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

Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix, or an infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -e, the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic.

Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.

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Flat Quotations

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
Thomas Friedman

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
Thomas Friedman

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.
Thomas Friedman

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
George Edward Woodberry

Flat Translations

flat in Afrikaans is woonstel
flat in Danish is flad
flat in Dutch is appartement, flat
flat in Finnish is tasainen, laakea
flat in Italian is appartamento, piatto
flat in Norwegian is flat, flate, punktering, leilighet, flat, slette
flat in Portuguese is liso
flat in Spanish is liso, aplanado, apartamento, bemol, plano, piso

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