meaning of flat
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
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.
3. Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
8. Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
9. Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
10. Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
11. In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
12. Without allowance for accrued interest.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Something broad and flat in form
16. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
17. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
18. A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
19. A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc. , are carried in processions.
20. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
21. A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
22. A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
23. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
24. A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
25. A homaloid space or extension.
26. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
27. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
28. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
29. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
30. To fall form the pitch.
31. A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.
32. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
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