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Flat
Flat Flat, a.
1. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
-- said of a club.
2. (Gram.) 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.
3. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
FlatFlat Flat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flatting.]
1. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
--Barrow.
3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to
lower in pitch by half a tone. FlatFlat Flat, v. i.
1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even
surface. --Sir W. Temple.
2. (Mus.) To fall form the pitch.
To flat out, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a
bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.] Flat
Flat Flat, n.
1. 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.
Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a
bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.
--Bacon.
2. 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.
Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are
taken by the tide. --Shak.
3. Something broad and flat in form; as:
(a) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small
draught.
(b) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of
which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(d) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs,
etc., are carried in processions.
4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of
a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially,
a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in
itself.
Meaning of Flat from wikipedia
- Look up
flat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Flat or
flats may
refer to: Apartment,
known as a
flat in the
United Kingdom, Ireland, and
other Commonwealth...
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Flat Earth is an
archaic and
scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's
shape as a
plane or disk. Many
ancient cultures subscribed to a
flat-Earth...
- A
Flat is a 2010
Indian Hindi-language
horror film
directed by
Hemant Madhukar and
produced by
Anjum Rizvi.
Starring Jimmy Sheirgill,
Sanjay Suri, Kaveri...
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flat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A-
flat may
refer to: A♭, a
musical pitch A
scale based on A-
flat: A-
flat major A-
flat minor A
Flat (film)...
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Flat Stanley is an
American children's book
series written by
author Jeff
Brown (January 1, 1926 –
December 3, 2003). The idea for the book
began as a...
- The
Flat or The
Flats may
refer to any of the following: The
Flat (Houtman Abrolhos), a reef in Australia's
Houtman Abrolhos island group "The
Flat", a...
- Salt
flats, Salt
flat, Salt
Flats, or Salt
Flat may
refer to: Salt pan (geology), a
flat expanse of
ground covered with salt and
other minerals Dry lake...
- A
flat organization (also
known as
horizontal organization or
flat hierarchy) is an
organizational structure with few or no
levels of
middle management...
- A
flat fee, also
referred to as a
flat rate or a
linear rate
refers to a
pricing structure that
charges a
single fixed fee for a service,
regardless of...
- In geometry, a
flat is an
affine subspace, i.e. a
subset of an
affine space that is
itself an
affine space. Particularly, in the case the
parent space...
