Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
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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.
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Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
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Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
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Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
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Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
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Without allowance for accrued interest.
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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.
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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.
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Something broad and flat in form
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A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
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A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
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A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
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A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
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The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
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A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
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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; a numskull.
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A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
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A homaloid space or extension.
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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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To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
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To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.