Flat
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Flat
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1 superl.
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
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2 superl.
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.
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3 superl.
Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
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4 superl.
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
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5 superl.
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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6 superl.
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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7 superl.
Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
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8 superl.
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
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9 superl.
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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10 superl.
Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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11 adv.
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
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12 adv.
Without allowance for accrued interest.
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13 n.
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.
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14 n.
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.
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15 n.
Something broad and flat in form
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16 n.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
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17 n.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
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18 n.
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
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19 n.
A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
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20 n.
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
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21 n.
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
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22 n.
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
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23 n.
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
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24 n.
A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
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25 n.
A homaloid space or extension.
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26 v. t.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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27 v. t.
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
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28 v. t.
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
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29 v. i.
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
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30 v. i.
To fall form the pitch.
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31 superl.
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
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32 superl.
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.
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33 superl.
Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
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34 superl.
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
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35 superl.
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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36 superl.
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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37 superl.
Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
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38 superl.
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
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39 superl.
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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40 superl.
Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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41 adv.
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
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42 adv.
Without allowance for accrued interest.
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43 n.
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.
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44 n.
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.
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45 n.
Something broad and flat in form
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46 n.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
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47 n.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
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48 n.
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
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49 n.
A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
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50 n.
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
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51 n.
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
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52 n.
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
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53 n.
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
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54 n.
A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
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55 n.
A homaloid space or extension.
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56 v. t.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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57 v. t.
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
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58 v. t.
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
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59 v. i.
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
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60 v. i.
To fall form the pitch.