Word Finder - flat

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An area of level ground.

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A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).

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A flat tyre/tire.

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(in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.

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She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.

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(in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.

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A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.

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The flat part of something:

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A wide, shallow container or pallet.

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a flat of strawberries

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(mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.

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A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.

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A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

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A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.

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A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.

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A flat sheet for use on a bed.

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A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.

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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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A dull fellow; a simpleton.

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(technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.

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Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.

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An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.

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To make a flat call; to call without raising.

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To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

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To fall from the pitch.

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To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

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To make flat; to flatten; to level.

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To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

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Having no variations in height.

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The land around here is flat.

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(voice) Without variations in pitch.

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Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.

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That girl is completely flat on both sides.

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(note) Lowered by one semitone.

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Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.

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Your A string is too flat.

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(of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.

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Uninteresting.

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The party was a bit flat.

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(of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.

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Lacking acidity without being sweet.

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(of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.

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(of a throw) Without spin; spinless.

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Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring.

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The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting.

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Absolute; downright; peremptory.

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His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.

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(of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant

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(grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such 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".

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Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.

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(of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.

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(of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.

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(authorship, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.

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The author added a chapter to flesh out the books' flatter characters.

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Fixed; unvarying.

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a flat fare on public transport

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So as to be flat.

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Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.

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Bluntly.

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I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.

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(with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.

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He can run a mile in four minutes flat.

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Completely.

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I am flat broke this month.

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Directly; flatly.

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Without allowance for accrued interest.

He had just fixed a flat on his bike.

It wasn't a question, but a flat statement.

His tone was flat, almost uninterested.

His shoulders were broad, his chest wide, his stomach flat, his hips lean.

They swelled and blended smoothly - and that flat tummy was so masculine.

These are flat bars of iron or steel from 18 in.

The first variety inhabit the Himalayas and are beautifully covered with a deep soft fur quite long compared to the flat harsh hair of the Bengal sort.

There are but a few thousands imported, and being so flat they are only of use for coat linings, but they are very warm and light in weight.

The back of the Russian squirrel has an even close fur varying from a clear bluish-grey to a reddishbrown, the bellies in the former being of a flat quality and white, in the latter yellowish.

The skins are invariably tanned and beautifully sewn, the furs are generally flat in quality and not very strong in the hair, and are retained more as curiosities than for use as a warm covering.

To the east of the Middle Ground is another shoal known as Saltholm Flat, and there is a passage available for large ships between them.

He therefore proposed that he should be detached with ten sail of the line, and the frigates and small craft, to pass between the Middle Ground and Saltholm Flat, and assail the Danish line at the southern end while the remainder of the fleet engaged the Trekroner battery from the north.

During the nights of the 30th and 31st of March the channel between the Middle Ground and Saltholm Flat was sounded by the boats of the British fleet, the Danes making no attempt to interfere with them.

As its name indicates, it is quite flat, and the highest point is only 95 ft.

To the north of a line drawn from Aixla-Chapelle to Bonn the province is flat, and marshy districts occur near the Dutch frontier.

The western portion of Belgium, consisting of the two Flanders, Antwerp and parts of Brabant and Hainaut, is flat, being little above the level of the sea; and indeed at one point near Furnes it is 7 ft.

In the north, the plain of Poland is bordered by a flat, broad swelling, 600 to 700 ft.

Only light boats (galary) are floated down this broad, shallow stream, whose flat and open valley is often inundated.

Below Czenstochowa it traverses a flat lowland, whose surface rises only 2 to 5 ft.

In the south are flat, fertile and thickly wooded plains, which give place to jungle at the foot of the hills of Dar Nuba, the district forming the southeast part of Kordofan.

In the chief towns houses are built of mud bricks with flat roofs.

The other saga, which by chance came to be looked upon as the chief repository of facts concerning the Vinland voyages, is found in a large Icelandic work known as the Flatey Book, as it was once owned by a man who lived on Flat Island (Flatey), on the north-western coast of Iceland.

Mecklenburg lies wholly within the great North-European plain, and its flat surface is interrupted only by one raiIge of low hills, intersecting the country from south-east to north-west, and forming the watershed between the Baltic Sea and the Elba.

The northern half of the province is flat, and even marshy along the coast, and consists of a broad band of alluvium formed by the series of parallel rivers descending from the south.

The largest of the rivers which enter it, the Tigrish and the Nyuki, run north through a flat marshy country which extends south of the lake.

The surface is generally flat, but in the south-west there are hills attaining an elevation of 1200 ft.

The flat surface is spread to allow the maximum amount of sunlight to fall upon it, as it is by the absorption of energy from the sun's rays by means of the chlorophyll contained in the cells of the leaf that the building up of plant food is rendered possible; this process is known as photo-synthesis; the first stage is the combination of carbon dioxide, absorbed from the air taken in through the stomata into the living cells of the leaf, with water which is brought into the leaf by the wood-vessels.

In all the instances already alluded to the leaves have been considered as flat expansions, in which the ribs or veins spread out on the same plane with the stalk.

On the west the flat ground at the foot of the hills has an average width of about 200 yds.

Foundations and scattered stones cover the slopes and the flat valley below.

There are extensive ruins on flat ground, consisting of mounds and foundations.

To take the simple case of the " wall " or flat plate considered by Fourier for the definition of thermal conductivity, suppose that a quantity of heat Q passes in the time T through an area A of a plate of conductivity k and thickness x, the sides of which are constantly maintained at temperatures B' and 8".

From the latitude of Bagdad southward the country is entirely alluvial soil, deposited by the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, possessing great possibilities of fertility, but absolutely flat and subject to inundations at the time of flood of the two rivers.

Large sluices of stone, with strong doors, to be shut when it is wished to exclude the tide, may be seen on both banks of the river, and from these great conduits are carried miles inward through the flat country to the point previously prepared by embankment over which the muddy waters are allowed to spread.

The general aspect of the country is flat, except in the district of Monghyr, where detached hills occur, and in the south-east of the province, where the Rajmahal and Santal ranges abut upon the plains.

It has no extensive sands, though on the whole very flat.

Typical Neolithic cemeteries are found at Iiinkelstein, Aizey and other places in the neighborhood of Worms. In these graves the skeletons lie flat, while in other cemeteries, as at Flomborn in Rhine-Hessen, and near Heilbronn, they are in a huddled position (hence the name Hockergrdber).

The head, body and legs are long, and the ribs deep and flat.

Certain flat oval nodules from a decomposed lava (augite-andesite) in Uruguay present a cavity lined with quartz crystals and enclosing liquid (a weak saline solution), with a movable air-bubble, whence they are called "enhydros" or water-stones.

The coast is for the most part flat, more regular in outline and less favourable to shipping, while in the east, 1 The name T pcvaKpia was no doubt suggested by the OpcvaKln of Homer (which need not, however, be Sicily), and the geography was then fitted to the apparent meaning given to the name by the change.

The numerous stamens surround the ovary, which is composed of 4 to 16 carpels and is surmounted by a flat or convex rayed disk bearing the stigmas.

South and west of this highland, along the Kansas river, is a low, level tract occupied chiefly by railway yards, stock yards, wholesale houses and manufacturing establishments; north and east of the highland is a flat section, the Missouri River bottoms, occupied largely by manufactories, railway yards, grain elevators and homes of employes.

According to it, he collected the revelations from copies written on flat stones, pieces of leather, ribs of palm-leaves (not palm-leaves themselves), and such-like material, but chiefly " from the breasts of men," i.e.

It has long, narrow, flat, obscurely keeled leaves, a deciduous spathe, and a globose umbel of whitish flowers, among which are small bulbils.

These are frequently encroached upon by the sea, while the flat shore on the south is protected by embankments.

The tongue is flat and thick, attached by its whole under surface; its hinder margin is raised into a transverse fold, which, by meeting a similar fold from the palate, can shut off the mouth completely from the wide cavity of the throat.

Corn grinders were flat oval stones, with a smaller one lying cross-ways (95), and slid from end to end.

For dressing flat surfaces three wooden pegs (102) of equal length were used; a string was stretched between the tops of two, and the third peg was set on the point to be tested and tried against the string.

Probably it was thus highly finished by beating between polished stone hammers which were almost flat on the face.

Denmark, however, is nowhere low in the sense in which Holland is; the country is pleasantly diversified, and rises a little at the coast even though it remains flat inland.