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ADJECTIVE flat COMPARATIVE flatter SUPERLATIVE flattest

flat English

Meaning flat meaning

What does flat mean?

Definitions in simple English

flat Adjective

— If something is flat, it has a surface with no high places or low places. There are a lot of mountains, and very little flat land for farming.

flat Noun

— A flat is a rented room or rooms in a building with other flats. Would you like to come back to my flat and watch TV? — A flat makes a note one semitone lower than a natural: it is shown by the symbol ♭.

flat Verb

— To make something flat.

flat

— adjective (= level, plane) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another a flat desk acres of level farmland a plane surface skirts sewn with fine flat seams — adjective having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness flat computer monitors — adjective stretched out and lying at full length along the ground found himself lying flat on the floor — noun a level tract of land the salt flats of Utah — adjective (= categorical) not modified or restricted by reservations a categorical denial a flat refusal — adjective lacking contrast or shading between tones — noun a shallow box in which seedlings are started — adjective having lost effervescence flat beer a flat cola — adverb with flat sails sail flat against the wind — noun scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting — noun a deflated pneumatic tire — noun a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named — adjective horizontally level a flat roof — adjective (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone B flat — adjective (= monotonous) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch the owl's faint monotonous hooting — adjective (= matt, matte) not reflecting light; not glossy flat wall paint a photograph with a matte finish — adjective commercially inactive flat sales for the month prices remained flat a flat market — adverb (= directly, straight) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly he didn't answer directly told me straight out came out flat for less work and more pay — adjective (= bland) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting a bland little drama a flat joke — adjective (= bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, vapid) lacking taste or flavor or tang a bland diet insipid hospital food flavorless supermarket tomatoes vapid beer vapid tea — adjective (= compressed) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) — noun (= apartment) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house — noun (= flatcar) freight car without permanent sides or roof — adjective (= two-dimensional) lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth a film with two-dimensional characters a flat two-dimensional painting

Synonyms flat synonyms

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flat English » English

level even smooth apartment plane plain dull wide insipid flattened straight tasteless prostrate horizontal broad vapid thin monotonous lifeless flat and wide shallow prone planar level surface flush flavourless flavorless directly deflated categorical blunt bland uninteresting stale square slippery savourless savorless pointless place muffled levelly horizontally grindstone flatcar flatbed equal downright direct dead

Topics flat topics

What do people use flat to talk about?

States Quality Shape

Horizontal

What words describe something in a horizontal position?

horizontal prone prostrate longwise flat on the ground on its side lie prone flush on an even keel on the level parallel to the ground
What words refer to becoming horizontal?

fall on your face fall prone prostrate oneself get horizontal fall flat hit the dirt lay flat
What words refer to causing something to be horizontal?

lay something flat lay something down align
What words describe a surface that is level?

level (adj) even (adj) flat

States Quality Shape Straight

Flat

What words describe something that is flat?

flat flat as a pancake even flush
What words refer to making something flat?

flatten even (v) even out smooth level roll something flat press squish squash smash mash spread thin

Universe, creation World Land

Plain, plateau

What words describe land that is flat?

flat level even

Person Body Head

Nose

What words describe a person's nose?

pointed flat turned-up snub-nosed stubby wide long upturned hooked aquiline

Social behavior Social activity Music

Compose music

What words refer to the symbols used to write music?

music notation key staff bar note quarter note half note whole note sharp flat scale

Social behavior Social activity Music

Play music

What words refer to adjusting an instrument so that it plays correctly?

tune in tune out of tune sharp flat warm up

Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Types of houses

What types of houses are there?

rectangular round one story two story duplex bungalow apartment apartment building flat duplex ranch style mansion castle man's house wife's house

Work and occupation Tool

Parts of tools

What are the parts of a knife?

handle hilt guard blade edge tip back flat

Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Tide

What words refer to the area along the shore that the tide covers?

tidal flat

Person Body Limb

Thin person

What words refer to a thin stomach?

flat stomach

Examples flat examples

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Simple sentences

Small hills look flat from an airplane.

When I returned home from my work, I found out that somebody had robbed our flat.

Tom said that he would not tolerate any animals in his flat.

Tom walked Mary to her flat.

They had to wait two years to get the flat.

Have you found a flat yet?

One of your tires is flat.

Mary's as flat as a board.

They have moths in their flat.

It was very hard for me to find your flat.

I'd love to go with you to the show, but I'm flat broke.

I just lost at the races so I'm flat broke.

Please drink the beer before it goes flat.

Wholesale prices had been basically flat.

My bicycle has a flat tire.

I have a flat tire.

Daddy was in his office, under our flat.

Dennis lay flat on the floor.

I had to push my bicycle because I had a flat tire.

I got a flat tire.

Its surface was as flat as a mirror.

It used to be thought that the earth was flat.

Movie subtitles

Go straight back to your flat and stay with your wife till it arrives.

If he had known what was going on with the commissary, he would've turned the deal down flat. Oh.

Lady Beltham had rented a flat at gold price for night in front of the prison.

A flat note.

Last seen with a little man with large flat feet and small moustache.

Bashmachkin's flat was on the third story, one little room without any pretentions to style.

Did you leave the flat unattended -?

Because Flanders is a flat country!

Anne and myself are gonna move downtown in a nice little flat.

What do you think my friends would say if they found me in a cheap flat?

Yeah, flat tires.

Oliver, I'm as flat as a millpond.

That poor thing with a flat chest that didn't have nerve enough. to talk up to you, washing your greasy overalls, cooking. and slaving in some lousy mining shack?

All right, tell my public that Carl Denam, the bright boy. who was going to make a million dollars out of King Kong, is flat broke.

Last seen with a little man with large flat fleet and small moustache.

Flat-footed.

Anne and myself are gonna move downtown in a little flat.

What would my friends say if they found me in a cheap flat?

Hey, now, just a minute, you great big flat-footed cop!

As I look at your faces, I understand why this college is flat on its back.

At my last college, it was slightly different. I was flat on my back.

Things went from bad to worse, but we all pulled together, and soon I was flat on my back again.

I was going to get a flat bottom, but the boat girl didn't have one.

Remember the fun we had when we were flat broke?

No, I've taken a furnished flat.

They've murdered a woman in my flat, and now they're waiting for me.

There's been another woman murdered in a West End flat.

I'm gonna leave this bird flat on its so and so.

If I take Madame Godard's money. from Madame Godard's flat, I'd be stealing.

My husband and I were listening to the street singers. when I saw him go up to Madame Pelletier's flat.

Say, you got a nerve busting into my flat like this.

Then lie down flat on every possible occasion.

Perhaps he'll be lying down flat, too.

His feet aren't flat enough.

She spent the night in your flat.

News and current affairs

Nor are the non-poor faring particularly well, as wage growth has remained virtually flat for a very long time, even as corporate profits are booming.

France is flat-lining (as is Britain).

China has seen enough experimentation over the last half-century to know that when you attempt a great leap forward you land flat on your face.

They were in the open, flat desert, with none of the cover and protection that Hezbollah had in their stone-built villages in Lebanon.

Another factor that may be contributing to flat productivity is that many corporations run traditional physical business models parallel to new digital ones.

Most businesses in the eurozone rely on bank finance, and while credit conditions have improved somewhat, lending is flat (and continues to fall in southern Europe).

Employment has increased, but labor productivity has remained flat and total factor productivity has declined.

Fatwas of the type issued by the highest Wahhabi cleric, Bin Baz, such as the notorious one before the first Gulf War declaring the Earth to be flat, have, unsurprisingly, lost their authority and credibility.

But home prices since then have been flat and show no visible trend.

The best evidence of this failure is that, despite a huge drop in wages and costs, export growth has been flat (the elimination of the current-account deficit being due exclusively to the collapse of imports).

Or a three-dimensional image that was actually a picture on a flat surface?

The Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat turned him down flat and instead returned to a massive campaign of terrorism against Israel.

The country's real GDP has flat-lined, and the odds are high that British real GDP is headed down again.

And, though state revenues have fallen with recession, forcing a few countries to hike value-added taxes, none has increased income taxes, and none of the seven countries that had in place a flat-rate income tax has abandoned it.

The employment-to-population ratio in the US remains flat - mired at the very low levels to which it fell during the recession.

Estonia led the way in simplifying its tax system by means of a successful flat tax in 1994, followed by Slovakia and other small countries in Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere (including Mauritius again).

Protectionists in the United States and Europe, itching to slap huge punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, have been caught flat-footed.

Yet defense spending across Europe remains flat or in decline.

Here, incomes and value added per employee remained largely flat.

Most of us (except for a lunatic fringe of flat-earthers) also believe this to be the case.

In economic jargon, the supply curve of labor was flat but is now sloping upward, so that rapidly increasing demand for labor resulting from rapid growth is driving up wages.

But higher incomes did not translate into improvements in people's standard of living or the quality of public services, leaving Putin's approval rating flat, with some of his opponents even taking to the streets to protest his leadership.

The Belarusian government considers it to be Ukraine's sovereign right to sign agreements with the EU - a flat contradiction of Russia's stance - and appears likely to introduce customs fees of its own for electronic goods imported from Russia.

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