| Flat |
superl. |
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. |
| Flat |
superl. |
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. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. |
| Flat |
superl. |
Sonant; vocal;
applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. |
| Flat |
adv. |
In a flat manner; directly; flatly. |
| Flat |
adv. |
Without allowance for accrued interest. |
| Flat |
n. |
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. |
| Flat |
n. |
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. |
| Flat |
n. |
Something broad and flat in form |
| Flat |
n. |
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. |
| Flat |
n. |
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. |
| Flat |
n. |
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car. |
| Flat |
n. |
A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions. |
| Flat |
n. |
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge. |
| Flat |
n. |
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself. |
| Flat |
n. |
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. |
| Flat |
n. |
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. |
| Flat |
n. |
A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. |
| Flat |
n. |
A homaloid space or extension. |
| Flat |
v. t. |
To make flat; to flatten; to level. |
| Flat |
v. t. |
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. |
| Flat |
v. t. |
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. |
| Flat |
v. i. |
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. |
| Flat |
v. i. |
To fall form the pitch. |
| Flat |
a. |
Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
said of a club. |
| Flat |
a. |
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. |
| Flat |
a. |
Flattening at the ends;
said of certain fruits. |
