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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 Flats from wikipedia
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scenery Flat, a
leading type of wordplay, as
identified by the
National Puzzlers'
League Flat! (2010), an
Indian film
Flats (band), an
English band
Flats (comics)...
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mouth to the
Oxbow bend. The
Flats and
Cleveland had soon
become an
entertainment mecca and
destination for the region. The
Flats Oxbow ****ociation was formed...
- Big
Flats may
refer to: Big
Flats, New York, a town Big
Flats (CDP), New York, a census-designated
place Big
Flats, Wisconsin, a town Big
Flats (community)...
- 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...
- of
Western music.
These contain either flats or sharps, but not both, and the
different key
signatures add
flats or
sharps according to the
order shown...
-
Isokon Flats, also
known as Lawn Road
Flats and the
Isokon building, on Lawn Road in the
Belsize Park
district of the
London Borough of Camden, is a reinforced-concrete...
- Look up
flatness or
flat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Flatness may
refer to:
Flatness (art)
Flatness (cosmology)
Flatness (liquids)
Flatness (manufacturing)...
- No
flats may
refer to: C major, a
major musical key with no
flats A minor, a
minor musical key with no
flats This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated...
- The Cape
Flats (Afrikaans: Die
Kaapse Vlakte) is an expansive, low-lying,
flat area
situated to the
southeast of the
central business district of Cape...
-
speed records at the
Bonneville Speedway.
Access to the
Flats is open to the public. The
Flats are
about 12
miles (19 km) long and 5
miles (8 km) wide...
