Flat
Meanings and phrases
flat
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; level; plane
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- not modified or restricted by reservations; categoric; categorical; unconditional
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; prostrate
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- lacking taste or flavor or tang; bland; flavorless; flavourless; insipid; savorless; savourless; vapid
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; bland
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes); compressed
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- having lost effervescence
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; monotone; monotonic; monotonous
- horizontally level
- not reflecting light; not glossy; mat; matt; matte; matted
- commercially inactive
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; two-dimensional; 2-dimensional
flat
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; directly; straight
- with flat sails
flat
- a level tract of land
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house; apartment
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- a deflated pneumatic tire; flat tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- freight car without permanent sides or roof; flatcar; flatbed
n.
- a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water; alluvial plain
cold-water flat
- an apartment without modern conveniences
n.
- low spreading evergreen shrub of southern Australia having triangular to somewhat heart-shaped foliage and orange-yellow flowers followed by flat winged pods; native holly; Playlobium obtusangulum
n.
- a musical notation of two flats in front of a note indicating that it is to be lowered by two semitones
n.
- an arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados; straight arch
n.
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface; ground; primer; priming; primer coat; priming coat; undercoat
adv.
- in a blunt direct manner; bluffly; bluntly; brusquely; roundly
- at top speed; like blue murder
n.
- a type of video display that is thin and flat; commonly used in laptop computers; FPD
n.
- evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania; Platylobium formosum
- European perennial with mottled flowers of purple and pink; sometimes cultivated for fodder or as green manure; narrow-leaved everlasting pea; Lathyrus sylvestris
n.
- a screwdriver with a flat wedge-shaped tip that fits into a slot in the head of a screw
n.
- a deflated pneumatic tire; flat
- In the desert, Al's car develops a flat tire.
- Later, he suffered a flat tire, and fell all the way back to 33rd position.
- He led 63 laps in the Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan but suffered a flat tire.
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- Burkina Faso is therefore a relatively flat country.
- Chancheng lies on relatively flat land.
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- It has a flat roof, where guns were mounted.
- It has a flat roof and a brick parapet with terra cotta.
- It has a two-story, rear kitchen addition with a flat roof.
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- Coins can also be spun on a flat surface such as a table.
- They do not swim or walk and cannot take off from a flat surface.
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- Bangladesh is predominantly rich fertile flat land.
- Bihar is mainly a vast stretch of very fertile flat land.
- Chancheng lies on relatively flat land.
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- Prix La Flèche The Prix La Flèche is a Listed flat horse race in France open to two-year-old thoroughbreds.
- Burradon Stakes The Burradon Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old horses.
- Beresford Stakes The Beresford Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Ireland open to two-year-old thoroughbreds.
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- Prix La Flèche The Prix La Flèche is a Listed flat horse race in France open to two-year-old thoroughbreds.
- Burradon Stakes The Burradon Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old horses.
- Beresford Stakes The Beresford Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Ireland open to two-year-old thoroughbreds.
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- Botswana has flat terrain that is mostly unsuitable for reservoirs.
- The flat terrain and temperate climate are also conducive to bicycling.
- The highway crosses the northern end of the county through relatively flat terrain.
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- The reserve is on Black Rock Dolomite limestone and is a flat area.
- The tube is about long then expanded into a flat area long and wide.
- In 1832 Martin purchased land on the flat area, along the beach at Omapere.
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- The other with a flat top is at the Toluca Museum.
- It prefers flat top reefs and areas along seaward slopes.
- The flat top forms the inhabited world, which is surrounded by a circular oceanic mass.
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- The territory around Barramiya is mostly flat, but the north is hilly.
- The terrain is mostly flat to undulating plain, with mountains in the northwest.
- The region is mostly flat, save for a single hill (called "Khao Wang") on the outskirts of town.
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- It has been a flat rate and reached its peak of 49%.
- Some carriers implement flat rate plans for unlimited data transfers.
- Knievel received a flat rate of $25,000 for his rights and the consulting fee.
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- Most Abadeh rugs are closely cut making them very flat.
- The area around the town has been very flat and muddy, thus the name.
- The blossoms are very flat.
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- He was British flat racing Champion Owner thirteen times.
- In flat racing, her horses won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes in 1931 and 1942.
- Townend has worked for Mullins since beginning his career as an apprentice flat racing jockey.
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- The music finishes quietly in the home key of E flat major.
- XVI/52, L. 62 in E flat major by Joseph Haydn, Fantasies op.
- The hook is written in E flat major.
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- It flowed through the Great Hungarian Plain, which is one of the largest flat areas in central Europe.
- Moreover, like much of the Bay Area, Berkeley has many areas of some risk to soil liquefaction, with the flat areas closer to the shore at low to high susceptibility.
- It is conceivable that such effects could extend to the creation of flat areas likely to be exposed to air, dry, and turn to wind-borne dust, which could fall randomly in other streams.
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- Most roofs are pitched; flat roofs are not common.
- (Wright designed flat roofs to avoid the "waste" of attics.)
- The units are separated by fire brick walls and topped with flat roofs.
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- Its topography is generally flat in between rolling and steep hills.
- The local terrain is generally flat with a few gently rolling plains.
- The interior surface is generally flat, a few low hills near the center.
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- The Marine runs three miles on reasonably flat ground.
- The mountain above the flat ground is a very steep hill scarp.
- Midway up this path is a flat ground which is strewn with boulders.
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- This on-site method is for flat surfaces (non-pipes) only.
- That is why it was cut into two of successively receding flat surfaces (terraces).
- He called them "awtaad" (pegs) even though these mountains may have large flat surfaces.
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- It was a large flat piece of iron studded with small buttons.
- This large flat hilltop presents a 360 degrees view of the area.
- There is a large flat variety.
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- Chen proposed in part a flat tax or "flatter" tax, and tax simplification.
- This was a flat tax, a levy on production with a maximum rate of one percent.
- This created a flat tax of 3 percent on incomes above $800 ($ in current dollar terms).
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- Roberts's earliest competition was in youth flat track and Supermoto.
- He had a small flat track in his back garden, where he rode some of his motorcycles.
- Harbor Girls Hamburg St. Pauli Roller Derby is a flat track roller derby league based in Hamburg in Germany.
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- This trade-off is asserted to work well on LCD flat panel monitors.
- SoundBug Soundbug is a small speaker that can turn a resonant flat surface into a flat panel speaker.
- Unlike conventional backlit flat panel displays that emit light, electronic paper displays reflect light like paper.
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- He had a small flat track in his back garden, where he rode some of his motorcycles.
- The Wrights in 1905 used a wood assembly joined together by small flat plates and screws.
- It consists of small flat pieces of stones arranged in a pattern or image, like a mosaic.
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- It differed from previous marks by using a simplified fuselage with a flat bottom and slab sides.
- The hull was a narrow two step, flat bottom design that was slightly concave in the rear most section.
- The flat bottom of the stone has a glue backing and, when heated, melts onto the surface of the clothing.
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- Clypeus almost flat laterally.
- The park sits on an almost flat section of the riverbank that very occasionally floods.
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- The back is only slightly arched or is nearly flat.
- The base of the shell is nearly flat, and spirally lirate.
- It is a nearly flat territory, open to the Gulf of Cádiz in the southeast.
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- Other pilot programs charged a flat fee.
- The site charges a 15% flat fee.
- There are also flat fee plans that make the pricing more predictable.
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- The mountains have since been uplifted and folded erosion has beveled them into a nearly flat plain.
- During a post-dive press conference Cameron said: "I landed on a very soft, almost gelatinous flat plain.
- In the millions of years since, the mountains were uplifted and folded erosion has beveled them into a nearly flat plain.
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- They consist of a flat plate suspended from the top so that the wind deflects the plate.
- It has a bell-mouth shape and its salient feature is a flat plate deflector near the mouth.
- They too suffer from "flat plate" frequencies, but at a higher frequencies than MLS diffusors.