Meaning of 'flat' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- 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.
- To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even
surface.
- To fall form the pitch.
- 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.
Meaning of 'flat' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a level tract of land
Meaning (2):
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
Meaning (3):
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
Example in sentence:- came out flat for less work and more pay;
- he didn't answer directly;
- told me straight out
Meaning (4):
- with flat sails
Example in sentence:- sail flat against the wind
Meaning (5):
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
Example in sentence:- a bland diet;
- flavorless supermarket tomatoes;
- insipid hospital food;
- vapid beer;
- vapid tea
Meaning (6):
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
Example in sentence:- a bland little drama;
- a flat joke
Meaning (7):
- not modified or restricted by reservations
Example in sentence:- a categorical denial;
- a flat refusal
Meaning (8):
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
Example in sentence:- a film with two-dimensional characters;
- a flat two-dimensional painting
Meaning (9):
- having lost effervescence
Meaning (10):
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
Example in sentence:- a flat desk;
- a plane surface;
- acres of level farmland;
- skirts sewn with fine flat seams
Meaning (11):
- commercially inactive
Example in sentence:- a flat market;
- flat sales for the month;
- prices remained flat
Meaning (12):
- horizontally level
Meaning (13):
- not reflecting light; not glossy
Example in sentence:- a photograph with a matte finish;
- flat wall paint
Meaning (14):
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
Meaning (15):
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
Example in sentence:- found himself lying flat on the floor
Meaning (16):
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Example in sentence:- the owl's faint monotonous hooting
Definition
[ adv.]