flat

  • (noun): An area of level ground.
  • (noun): A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
  • (noun): A flat tyre/tire.
  • (noun): (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
  • (noun): (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
  • (noun): A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
  • (noun): The flat part of something:
  • (noun): A wide, shallow container or pallet.
  • (noun): (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.
  • (noun): A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
  • (noun): A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  • (noun): A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
  • (noun): A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  • (noun): A flat sheet for use on a bed.
  • (noun): A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
  • (noun): A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
  • (noun): A dull fellow; a simpleton.
  • (noun): (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.
  • (noun): Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
  • (noun): An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
  • (verb): To make a flat call; to call without raising.
  • (verb): To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
  • (verb): To fall from the pitch.
  • (verb): To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
  • (verb): To make flat; to flatten; to level.
  • (verb): To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
  • (adjective): Having no variations in height.
  • (adjective): (voice) Without variations in pitch.
  • (adjective): Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
  • (adjective): (note) Lowered by one semitone.
  • (adjective): Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
  • (adjective): (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
  • (adjective): Uninteresting.
  • (adjective): (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.
  • (adjective): Lacking acidity without being sweet.
  • (adjective): (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
  • (adjective): (of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
  • (adjective): Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring.
  • (adjective): Absolute; downright; peremptory.
  • (adjective): (of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant
  • (adjective): (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 "to".
  • (adjective): (of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
  • (adjective): (of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
  • (adjective): (authorship, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
  • (adjective): Fixed; unvarying.
  • (adverb): So as to be flat.
  • (adverb): Bluntly.
  • (adverb): (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
  • (adverb): Completely.
  • (adverb): Directly; flatly.
  • (adverb): Without allowance for accrued interest.
  • She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
  • a flat of strawberries
  • The land around here is flat.
  • That girl is completely flat on both sides.
  • Your A string is too flat.