Noun
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a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
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scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
part of a stage setting
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a deflated pneumatic tire
- flat tire -
freight car without permanent sides or roof
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a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
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a shallow box in which seedlings are started
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a level tract of land
"the salt flats of Utah"
Adjective
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commercially inactive
"flat sales for the month"
"prices remained flat"
"a flat market"
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not reflecting light
not glossy
"flat wall paint"
"a photograph with a matte finish"
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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"
- two dimensional - 2 dimensional -
horizontally level
"a flat roof"
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sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
"the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
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having lost effervescence
"flat beer"
"a flat cola"
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lacking stimulating characteristics
uninteresting
"a bland little drama"
"a flat joke"
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lacking taste or flavor or tang
"a bland diet"
"insipid hospital food"
"flavorless supermarket tomatoes"
"vapid beer"
"vapid tea"
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flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
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(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
"B flat"
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lacking contrast or shading between tones
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stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
"found himself lying flat on the floor"
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not modified or restricted by reservations
"a categorical denial"
"a flat refusal"
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having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
"flat computer monitors"
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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"
Adverb
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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"
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with flat sails
"sail flat against the wind"