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English

Pronunciation


Adjective

  1. Having no variations in altitude.
  2. : The land around here is flat.
  3. In the Context of Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
  4. Lowered by one semitone.
  5. Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
  6. Without variations in pitch.
  7. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
  8. Uninteresting.
  9. : The party was a bit flat.
  10. In the Context of Lacking acidity without being sweet.


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Translations

  • Albanian: rrafshtë
  • Catalan: pla
  • Croatian:
  • Danish: flad
  • Dutch: ,
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: ,
  • German: ,
  • Hungarian:
  • Indonesian: {{t-|id|datar|xs=Indonesian}}
  • Albanian: {{t+|sq|bemol|xs=Albanian}}
  • Esperanto: bemola
  • Finnish:
  • Swedish:
  • Finnish: ,
  • German:
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Adverb

flat

  1. So as to be flat.
  2. : Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.
  3. Bluntly.
  4. : I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.
  5. Not exceeding.
  6. : He can run a mile in four minutes flat.
  7. Completely.
  8. : I am flat broke this month.


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Translations

  • Swedish: ,
  • Finnish:
  • German:
  • Danish:
  • Finnish: ,
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Noun

  1. An area of level ground.
  2. A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
  3. A flat tyre/tire.
  4. An apartment.
  5. A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
  6. : She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
  7. In the Context of A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.


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Translations

  • French: {{t+|fr|bémol|m}}
  • Italian:
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|bemol|m}}

apartment See apartment

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The translations for "apartment" should be moved to apartment.


Category:1000 English basic words

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Dutch

Noun

  1. flat, apartment


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Old English

Pronunciation

IPA: /flɑːt/

Verb

  1. First- and third-person singular preterite form of .


Category:Old English verb forms

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Swedish

Adjective

flat

  1. flat#Adjective|flat (having no variations in altitude)
  2. : Solen reflekterades i spegelns flata yta.
  3. :: The sun was reflected in the flat surface of the mirror.
  4. spineless, being a doormat, abstaining from defending one's convictions
  5. : Han var alldeles för flat mot chefen, och fick inte heller någon löneökning.
  6. :: He let the manager walk all over him and did not get a raise.


Synonyms

;flat

;spineless


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. Flatter (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r);
superl. Flattest (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr,
Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G.
fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without
inclination; plane.
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Though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton.
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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.
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What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
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I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton.
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3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
points of prominence and striking interest.
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A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
--Coleridge.
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4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
flat to the taste.
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5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak.
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6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.

Syn: flat-out.
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Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
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A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
--Marston.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
flat.
(b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
-- said of a club.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

11. (Gram.) 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain
fruits.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).

Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.

Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of
ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.

Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.

Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of
rectangular section. See File.

Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.

Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.

Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.

Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
--Raymond.

Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit.

Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
wide, flat band. --Knight.

Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.

Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.


To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
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Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
Erskine.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flat \Flat\, adv.
1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
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Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. --Herbert.
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2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest.
[Broker's Cant]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flat \Flat\, n.
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.
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Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a
bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.
--Bacon.
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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.
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Half my power, this night
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. --Shak.
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3. Something broad and flat in form; as:
(a) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small
draught.
(b) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of
which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(d) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs,
etc., are carried in processions.
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4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of
a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
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5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially,
a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in
itself; an apartment taking up a whole floor. In this
latter sense, the usage is more common in British English.
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6. (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a
main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not
elsewhere horizontal. --Raymond.
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7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.]
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Or if you can not make a speech,
Because you are a flat. --Holmes.
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8. (Mus.) A character [[flat]] before a note, indicating a
tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
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9. (Geom.) A homaloid space or extension.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flatting.]
1. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
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Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
--Barrow.
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3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to
lower in pitch by half a tone.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Flat \Flat\, v. i.
1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even
surface. --Sir W. Temple.
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2. (Mus.) To fall form the pitch.
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To flat out, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a
bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.]
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WordNet flat
adj 1: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or
lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level
farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: level, plane]
2: having no depth or thickness
3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical
denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical,
unconditional]
4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
"found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: prostrate]
5: lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty]
6: lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural,
sharp]
7: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed]
8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flavorless, flavourless,
insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]
9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland]
10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
11: not increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: fixed]
12: not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from
unleavened dough" [syn: unraised]
13: parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
14: without pleats [syn: unpleated]
15: 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" [syn: two-dimensional]
16: (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
17: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: mat, matt, matte,
matted]
18: lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"
n 1: a level tract of land
2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the
note named
4: freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar,
flatbed]
5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat tire]
6: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted
canvas; part of a stage setting
7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
[syn: apartment]
adv 1: at full length; "he fell flat on his face"
2: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
3: below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"
4: against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"
5: 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" [syn: directly, straight]
[ant: indirectly]
6: wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"
[also: flatting, flatted, flattest, flatter]
Moby Dictionary
3-D , Pullman , Pullman car , abeyant , absolute , absolutely , absonant ,
accented , accidental , accommodation , accordant , accumbent ,
achromatic , achromic , act drop , admitting no exception , alabaster ,
alike , alkali flat , all-out , alluvial plain , alveolar , anemic ,
apace , apartment , apathetic , apical , apico-alveolar , apico-dental ,
arid , arrowlike , articulated , asbestos , asbestos board , ashen ,
ashy , assimilated , at full length , at full speed , at once , atonal ,
automatic , back , backdrop , baggage car , balanced , baldly , bank ,
bar , barren , barytone , basin , bated , batten , beat , betting house ,
betting parlor , bilabial , billiard table , blah , bland , blank ,
bled white , bloodless , bog , bony , border , boring , bottomland ,
bowling alley , bowling green , boxcar , brashly , brazenly , breve ,
broad , broke , bushveld , busted , caboose , cacophonous , cacuminal ,
cadaverous , campestral , campestrian , campo , car , carriage , casino ,
cataleptic , catatonic , categorical , categorically , central ,
cerebral , certain , chair car , chambers , champaign ,
champaign country , characterless , checked , chloranemic , clear ,
clerestory , close , cloth , coach , coal car , coastal plain , cold ,
cold-water flat , collapsed , colorless , common , commonplace ,
complete , completely , conclusive , consistent , consonant ,
consonantal , constant , continuant , continuous , coral reef ,
couchant , couche , coulisse , counterweight , covered waggon , cracked ,
crawling , creamy , crib , crotchet , crouched , cubic , curtain ,
curtain board , cyclorama , damped , dampened , day coach , dead ,
dead flat , dead level , dead straight , deadened , deadly pale ,
deathly pale , debased , decided , decisive , decor , decumbent ,
definite , definitely , definitive , deflated , delicate , delta ,
demisemiquaver , dental , depressed , desert , determinate , diaphonic ,
digs , dilute , diluted , dim , dimensional , dimmed , diner , dinghy ,
dingy , dining car , direct , directly , discolored , disconsonant ,
discordant , disharmonic , disharmonious , dismal , dissimilated ,
dissonant , dominant , dominant note , dopey , dormant , dorsal ,
double whole note , down , downright , downs , downy , drab , draggy ,
draped , drawing room , drearisome , dreary , drop , drop curtain , dry ,
dryasdust , dull , dulled , duplex , duplex apartment , dusty , earth ,
effete , eggshell , eighth note , elephantine , empty , enharmonic ,
enharmonic note , entire , entresol , equable , equal , esplanade ,
etiolated , even , evenly , exact , exactly , explicit , express ,
exsanguinated , exsanguine , exsanguineous , fade , faded , faint ,
fallow , featureless , fell , fen , final , fire curtain , firm ,
first floor , fixed , flat , flat broke , flat country , flat out ,
flat-chested , flat-out , flatcar , flatland , flatly , flats ,
flattened , flatways , flatwise , flavorless , fleshless , flipper ,
floor , flush , ford , forthwith , foul , fourth-dimensional , front ,
gambling den , gambling hall , gambling hell , gambling house ,
gaming house , gangling , gangly , garden apartment , gaunt , gawky ,
ghastly , glabrate , glabrescent , glabrous , glass , glide , global ,
gloss , glossal , glottal , gondola , grass veld , grassland , grating ,
gray , groggy , ground , ground floor , groveling , gruelly , guttural ,
haggard , half note , hanging , hard , harsh , heath , heavy , hell ,
hell for leather , hemidemisemiquaver , high , ho-hum , hollow ,
homaloid , homaloidal , homogeneous , horizontal , horizontal axis ,
horizontal fault , horizontal line , horizontal parallax ,
horizontal plane , horizontal projection , horizontally , hueless ,
humdrum , hypochromic , ice , immediately , immelodious , immutable ,
implicit , in a line , in abeyance , in suspense , inactive , inane ,
inappealable , indifferent , indisputable , indubitable , inert ,
inexcitable , inharmonic , inharmonious , insipid , intonated ,
invariable , iridescent , irrevocable , irrevocably , ivory , jejune ,
joint , knee-high , knocked flat , labial , labiodental , labiovelar ,
lackluster , laid low , lande , languid , languorous , lank , lanky ,
latent , lateral , lax , leaden , lean , lean-fleshed , lean-looking ,
ledge , leiotrichous , lengthways , lengthwise , level , level line ,
level plane , lifeless , light , like a shot , like greased lightning ,
lineal , linear , lingual , liquid , livid , living quarters , llano ,
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