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[flat] Pronunciation Key adjective, flat·ter, flat·test, noun, verb, flat·ted, flat·ting, adverb
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[flat] Pronunciation Key adjective, flat·ter, flat·test, noun, verb, flat·ted, flat·ting, adverb –adjective
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| 1. | horizontally level: a flat roof. |
| 2. | level, even, or without unevenness of surface, as land or tabletops. |
| 3. | having a surface that is without marked projections or depressions: a broad, flat face. |
| 4. | lying horizontally and at full length, as a person; prostrate: He was flat on the canvas after the knockdown. |
| 5. | lying wholly on or against something: The banner was flat against the wall. |
| 6. | thrown down, laid low, or level with the ground, as fallen trees or buildings. |
| 7. | having a generally level shape or appearance; not deep or thick: a flat plate. |
| 8. | (of the heel of a shoe) low and broad. |
| 9. | spread out, as an unrolled map or the open hand. |
| 10. | deflated; collapsed: a flat tire. |
| 11. | absolute, downright, or positive; without qualification: a flat denial. |
| 12. | without modification or variation: a flat rate. |
| 13. | Informal. lacking money; broke. |
| 14. | without vitality or animation; lifeless; dull: flat writing. |
| 15. | having lost its flavor, sharpness, or life, as wine or food; stale. |
| 16. | (of a beverage) having lost its effervescence. |
| 17. | without flavor; not spiced: flat cooking. |
| 18. | prosaic, banal, or insipid: a flat style. |
| 19. | pointless, as a remark or joke. |
| 20. | commercially inactive: a flat day in the stock market. |
| 21. | (of a painting) not having the illusion of volume or depth. |
| 22. | (of a photograph or painting) lacking contrast or gradations of tone or color. |
| 23. | (of paint) without gloss; not shiny; mat. |
| 24. | not clear, sharp, or ringing, as sound or a voice. |
| 25. | lacking resonance and variation in pitch; monotonous: a flat delivery of the speech. |
| 26. | Music.
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| 27. | Grammar. derived without change in form, as English to brush from the noun brush and adverbs that do not add -ly to the adjective form as fast, cheap, and slow. |
| 28. | Phonetics. lenis; voiced. |
| 29. | Nautical. (of a sail)
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| 30. | flat a, the a-sound (a) of glad, bat, or act. |
| 31. | something flat. |
| 32. | a shoe, esp. a woman's shoe, with a flat heel or no heel. |
| 33. | a flat surface, side, or part of anything: He struck me with the flat of his hand. |
| 34. | flat or level ground; a flat area: salt flats. |
| 35. | a marsh, shoal, or shallow. |
| 36. | Music.
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| 37. | Theater. a piece of scenery consisting of a wooden frame, usually rectangular, covered with lightweight board or fabric. |
| 38. | a broad, thin book, chiefly for children: a juvenile flat. |
| 39. | Informal. a deflated automobile tire. |
| 40. | (in postal use) a large flat package, as in a manila envelope, for mailing. |
| 41. | Architecture. a flat roof or deck. |
| 42. | Nautical.
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| 43. | Shipbuilding.
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| 44. | an iron or steel bar of rectangular cross section. |
| 45. | Textiles. one of a series of laths covered with card clothing, used in conjunction with the cylinder in carding. |
| 46. | Photography. one or more negatives or positives in position to be reproduced. |
| 47. | Printing. a device for holding a negative or positive flat for reproduction by photoengraving. |
| 48. | Horticulture. a shallow, lidless box or tray used for rooting seeds and cuttings and for growing young plants. |
| 49. | a similar box used for shipping and selling fruits and vegetables. |
| 50. | Football. the area of the field immediately inside of or outside of an offensive end, close behind or at the line of scrimmage. |
| 51. | flats, Informal. flat races between horses. Compare flat race. |
| 52. | to make flat. |
| 53. | Music. to lower (a pitch), esp. one half step. |
| 54. | to become flat. |
| 55. | in a flat position; horizontally; levelly. |
| 56. | in a flat manner; positively; absolutely. |
| 57. | completely; utterly: flat broke. |
| 58. | exactly; precisely: She ran around the track in two minutes flat. |
| 59. | Music. below the true pitch: to sing flat. |
| 60. | Finance. without interest. |
| 61. | flat in, Nautical. to pull the clew of (a fore-and-aft sail) as nearly amidships as possible. Also, flatten in. |
| 62. | fall flat, to fail to produce the desired effect; fail completely: His attempts at humor fell flat. |
| 63. | flat aft, Nautical. trimmed so that fore-and-aft sails present as flat a surface as possible, as in sailing close to the wind. |
| 64. | flat on one's back. back (def. 19). |
| 65. | flat out, Informal.
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flatly, adverb
flatness, noun
—Synonyms 1. plane. See level. 4. low, prone. 11. outright, peremptory, categorical. 14. boring, spiritless, prosaic. 17. vapid, unsavory.
—Antonyms 1, 4. upright, vertical. 14. spirited. 17. savory.
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[flat] Pronunciation Key
[flat] Pronunciation Key –noun
| Chiefly British. an apartment or suite of rooms on one floor forming a residence. |
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| flat 1
(flāt) Pronunciation Key
adj. flat·ter, flat·test
adv.
n.
v. flat·ted, flat·ting, flats v. tr.
v. intr. Music To sing or play below the proper pitch. [Middle English, from Old Norse flatr; see plat- in Indo-European roots.] flat'ly adv., flat'ness n. |
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| flat 2
(flāt) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Alteration of Scots flet, inner part of a house, from Middle English, from Old English, floor, dwelling; see plat- in Indo-European roots.] |
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flat (adj.)
flat (adj.)
c.1320, from O.N. flatr, from P.Gmc. *flataz (cf. O.H.G. flaz "flat, level," O.E. flet, O.H.G. flezzi "floor"), perhaps from PIE *pla- (cf. Gk. platys "broad, flat;" see place (n.)). Sense of "prosaic, dull" is from 1573; used of drink from 1607; of musical notes from 1591, because the tone is "lowered." Flatfish is from 1710. Flat-footed "unprepared" is 1912 U.S. baseball slang, on notion of "not on one's toes; earlier it meant "straightforwardly" (1828), from notion of "standing firmly." Flat-out (adv.) "openly, directly" is from 1932; earlier it was a noun meaning "total failure" (1870, U.S. colloquial). Flatware is distinguished from hollow ware.
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flat (n.)
flat (n.)
1801, from Scot. flat "floor or story of a house," from O.E. flet "a dwelling, floor, ground," from the same source as flat (adj.) (q.v.).
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| flat | |
adjective | |
| 1. | 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" |
| 2. | having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors" |
| 3. | not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric] |
| 4. | stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" |
| 5. | lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty] |
| 6. | (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp] |
| 7. | flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed] |
| 8. | lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland] |
| 9. | lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland] |
| 10. | having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" |
| 11. | sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" |
| 12. | horizontally level; "a flat roof" |
| 13. | 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" [syn: two-dimensional] |
| 14. | not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" |
| 15. | commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market" |
adverb | |
| 1. | with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" |
| 2. | 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" [syn: directly] [ant: indirectly] |
noun | |
| 1. | a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah" |
| 2. | a shallow box in which seedlings are started |
| 3. | a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named |
| 4. | freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar] |
| 5. | a deflated pneumatic tire |
| 6. | scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting |
| 7. | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: apartment] |
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flat
In addition to the idioms beginning with flat, also see caught flat-footed; fall flat; in no time (nothing flat); leave flat.
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Flat
1. A price that is neither rising nor declining.
2. In forex, the condition of being neither long nor short in a particular currency. Also referred to as 'being square'.
3. A bond that is trading without accrued interest.
Investopedia Commentary
1. If a stock over the last month has been trading around $30, it can be thought of as trading flat.
2. If you had no positions in the U.S. dollar or your long and short positions canceled each other out, you would be flat or have a flat book.
3. A bond is trading flat if the buyer of the bond is not responsible for paying the interest that has accrued since the last payment (accrued interest is usually part of the bond purchase price). Bonds that are in default trade flat.
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- Of, relating to, or being a market maker's inventory position that is neither long nor short; that is, the inventory is zero.
- Of, relating to, or being a bond that trades without accrued interest. For example, bonds of a company in bankruptcy proceedings trade flat. A bond trading flat is indicated in bond transaction tables by the symbol f.
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Main Entry: flat
Function: adjective
: not varying flat rate>; specifically of a tax : having a rate that remains constant for any taxable base
Main Entry: flat
Function: adjective
: not varying flat rate>; specifically of a tax : having a rate that remains constant for any taxable base
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Main Entry: flat
Function: adverb
: without interest charge; especially : without allowance or charge for accrued interestflat>
Main Entry: flat
Function: adverb
: without interest charge; especially : without allowance or charge for accrued interest
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1. Lacking any complex internal structure. "That bitty box has only a flat file system, not a hierarchical one." The verb form is flatten. Usually used pejoratively (at least with respect to file systems).
2. Said of a memory architecture like that of the VAX or Motorola 680x0 that is one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique address). This is a Good Thing. The opposite is a "segmented" architecture like that of the Intel 80x86 in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair. Segmented designs are generally considered cretinous.
3. A flat domain is one where all elements except bottom are incomparable (equally well defined). E.g. the integers.
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1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure. "That bitty box has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one." The verb form is flatten.
2. Said of a memory architecture (like that of the VAX or 680x0) that is one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique core address), as opposed to a `segmented' architecture (like that of the 80x86) in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair (segmented designs are generally considered cretinous).
Note that sense 1 (at least with respect to filesystems) is usually used pejoratively, while sense 2 is a Good Thing.
flat
adj.1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure. "That bitty box has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one." The verb form is flatten.
2. Said of a memory architecture (like that of the VAX or 680x0) that is one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique core address), as opposed to a `segmented' architecture (like that of the 80x86) in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair (segmented designs are generally considered cretinous).
Note that sense 1 (at least with respect to filesystems) is usually used pejoratively, while sense 2 is a Good Thing.
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Flat Rock, NC (CDP, FIPS 23640) Location: 36.50696 N, 80.58321 W
Population (1990): 1812 (795 housing units)
Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28731
Flat Top, WV Zip code(s): 25841
Flat Rock, MI (city, FIPS 28360) Location: 42.10180 N, 83.27293 W
Population (1990): 7290 (2829 housing units)
Area: 17.4 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 48134
Flat Rock, IN Zip code(s): 47234
Flat Rock, IL (village, FIPS 26350) Location: 38.90440 N, 87.67250 W
Population (1990): 421 (180 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 62427
Flat Rock, AL Zip code(s): 35966
Flat River, MO (city, FIPS 24490) Location: 37.85350 N, 90.51666 W
Population (1990): 4823 (2086 housing units)
Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
East Flat Rock, NC (CDP, FIPS 19420) Location: 35.28447 N, 82.41917 W
Population (1990): 3218 (1572 housing units)
Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28726
Flat, KY Zip code(s): 41301
Flat, TX Zip code(s): 76526
Myers Flat, CA Zip code(s): 95554
Salt Flat, TX Zip code(s): 79847
Hickory Flat, MS (town, FIPS 32020) Location: 34.61515 N, 89.18695 W
Population (1990): 535 (238 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 38633
Spanish Flat, CA Zip code(s): 94558
Wilmot Flat, NH Zip code(s): 03287
Dutch Flat, CA Zip code(s): 95714
Big Flat, AR (town, FIPS 5980) Location: 36.00577 N, 92.40500 W
Population (1990): 93 (61 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 72617
Burns Flat, OK (town, FIPS 10250) Location: 35.35508 N, 99.17511 W
Population (1990): 1027 (989 housing units)
Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Ash Flat, AR (city, FIPS 2470) Location: 36.22577 N, 91.60652 W
Population (1990): 667 (275 housing units)
Area: 7.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Groveland-Big Oak Flat, CA (CDP, FIPS 31375) Location: 37.84554 N, 120.19642 W
Population (1990): 2753 (2420 housing units)
Area: 56.6 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
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Flat\, a. [Compar. Flatter; superl. Flattest.] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. 2. 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. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b). Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper. Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight. Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File. Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight. Flat paper, paper which has not been folded. Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond. Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight. Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space. Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- Flat tint (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine.
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Flat
Flat\, adv. 1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly. Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. --Herbert. 2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]
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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. 6. (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. --Raymond. 7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. --Holmes. 8. (Mus.) A character [[flat]] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. 9. (Geom.) A homaloid space or extension.
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Flat
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.
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Flat
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.]
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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.
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