flat /flat/

1. Smooth
2. Level
3. Lacking points of prominence or interest
4. Shallow
5. Spread out
6. Monotonous
7. Uniform
8. Fixed, unvarying
9. Exact
10. Vapid, no longer brisk or sparkling
11. Defeated
12. Failing in effect
13. Dejected
14. Downright, out-and-out, sheer
15. (of drink) having lost all effervescence
16. (of feet) having little or no arch
17. (of shoes) not having a raised heel
18. Low relative to the semitone above (music)
19. Below the right pitch (music)
20. Having flats in the key-signature (music)
21. Voiced (phonetics)
22. (of a battery) dead, unable to generate
23. (of paint) matt, not glossy

1. A level part
2. A plain
3. (often in pl) an area of land covered by shallow water
4. Something broad
5. A storey or floor of a house, esp one, or part of one, used as a separate residence
6. The floor of a particular compartment (nautical)
7. A flat piece of scenery slid or lowered onto the stage (theatre)
8. An insipid passage (music)
9. A simpleton or dupe (informal)
10. A character (♭) that lowers a note a semitone (music)
11. A note so lowered (music)
12. A punctured tyre (informal)
13. (in pl) flat shoes (informal)

1. In or to a flat position
2. Evenly
3. Too low in pitch
4. Without qualification
5. Exactly (used in giving time taken for eg a race)

To live in a flat (together)

flatˈlet noun

A small flat of two or three rooms

flatˈling, flatˈlings or flatˈlong adverb (Spenser or Shakespeare)

1. With the flat side
2. Flat side on
3. Not edgewise
4. Prostrate

flatˈly adverb

flatˈness noun

flattˈed adjective

1. Made flat (obsolete)
2. Divided into flats

flattˈen transitive verb

1. To make flat
2. To knock to the ground (informal)
3. To knock out (informal)
4. To amaze (informal)

1. To become flat
2. (with out) to return to a horizontal position

flattˈing noun

Painting leaving a non-glossy finish

flattˈish adjective

Somewhat flat

flattˈy noun (informal)

A flat object, esp a light flat shoe

flatˈways or flatˈwise adjective or adverb

With or on the flat side

flatˈback noun

A pottery figure with a flat back, designed to stand on a mantelpiece, etc and so be viewed only from the front

flatˈbed, flatbed lorry or (esp N American) flatbed truck noun

A lorry with a flat sideless platform for its body

flatbed scanner noun (computing)

An apparatus which has a flat sheet of glass onto which documents are placed for scanning by a light beam

flatˈboat noun

A large flat-bottomed boat for transporting goods on a river, canal, etc

flatˈbread noun

Bread in flat usu unleavened loaves

flat cap noun

1. A low-crowned hat worn by London citizens in the 16c and 17c
2. Hence, a London citizen or apprentice
3. A cloth cap, an unstiffened cap of wool or other soft cloth, with a peak, widely regarded as a symbol of the working-class man

flatˈcar noun (N American)

A railway freight wagon without roof or sides

flat-chestˈed adjective

Having small breasts

flat-earthˈer noun

A person who maintains that the earth is flat

flat file noun (computing)

A file without hypertext links

flatˈfish noun

A marine fish that habitually lies on one side, and has an unsymmetrical flat body, eg flounder, turbot, etc

flatˈ-foot noun

1. A condition in which the arch of the instep is flattened
2. A policeman (derog sl)

flatˈ-footed adjective

1. Having flat feet
2. Resolute (US)
3. Ponderous (informal)
4. Unimaginative (informal)
5. Uninspired (informal)
6. Unprepared (N American)

flat-footˈedness noun

flatˈhead adjective

1. Having an artifically flattened head
2. (with cap) of or designating a Native American people of Montana (once mistakenly believed to practise flattening children's skulls, as did the neighbouring Chinook; also noun)

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