| flat | |
| 1. adj. Having no variations in height. | |
| The land around here is flat. | |
| 2. adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch. | |
| 3. adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all. | |
| That girl is completely flat on both sides. | |
| 4. adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone. | |
| 5. adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be. | |
| Your A string is too flat. | |
| 6. adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture. | |
| 7. adj. Uninteresting. | |
| The party was a bit flat. | |
| 8. adj. 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. | |
| 9. adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet. | |
| 10. adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead. | |
| 11. adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless. | |
| 12. adj. (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring. | |
| The market is flat. | |
| The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting. | |
| 13. adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory. | |
| His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results. | |
| I'm not going to the party and that's flat. | |
| 14. adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant | |
| 15. adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such 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 "t | |
| Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English. | |
| 16. adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft. | |
| 17. adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends. | |
| 18. adj. (authorship figuratively, esp. of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional. | |
| The author created the site to flesh out the books' flatter characters, who were actually quite well developed in her own mind. | |
| 19. adv. So as to be flat. | |
| Spread the tablecloth flat over the table. | |
| 20. adv. Bluntly. | |
| I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat. | |
| 21. adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding. | |
| He can run a mile in four minutes flat. | |
| 22. adv. Completely. | |
| I am flat broke this month. | |
| 23. adv. Directly; flatly. | |
| 24. adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest. | |
| 25. n. An area of level ground. | |
| 26. n. (music) 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. ♭♪). | |
| 27. n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire. | |
| 28. n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels. | |
| She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels. | |
| 29. n. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes. | |
| 30. n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting. | |
| 31. n. The flat part of something: | |
| 32. n. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge. | |
| 33. n. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers. | |
| 34. n. A wide, shallow container. | |
| a flat of strawberries | |
| 35. n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes. | |
| 36. n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension. | |
| 37. n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. | |
| 38. n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. | |
| 39. n. (rail, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar. | |
| 40. n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions. | |
| 41. n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. | |
| 42. n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton. | |
| 43. n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop. | |
| 44. v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising. | |
| 45. v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. | |
| 46. v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch. | |
| 47. v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. | |
| 48. v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level. | |
| 49. v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. | |
| 50. n. (chiefly British, New England, New Zealand, and Australian, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | |
