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Definition of Flat
Pronunciation: flăt | a. | 1. | Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. | | 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. | | 3. | (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. | | 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. | | 6. | Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. | | 7. | Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. | | 8. | (Mus.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. | | 9. | (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; - applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. | | 10. | (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; - said of a club. | | 11. | (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 -ë, the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic. | | 12. | (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; - said of certain fruits. | | adv. | 1. | In a flat manner; directly; flatly. | | 2. | (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. | | 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. | | 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. | | 3. | (Railroad Mach.) Something broad and flat in form | | 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; | | 6. | (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. | | 7. | A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. | | 8. | (Mus.) A character [$] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. | | 9. | (Geom.) A homaloid space or extension. | | v. t. | 1. | To make flat; to flatten; to level. | | 2. | To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. | | 3. | To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. | | v. i. | 1. | To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. | | 2. | (Mus.) To fall form the pitch. |
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