flat

1. superl. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Source: opted

2. superl. 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. Source: opted

3. superl. Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. Source: opted

4. superl. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. Source: opted

5. superl. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. Source: opted

6. superl. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. Source: opted

7. superl. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Source: opted

8. superl. Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. Source: opted

9. superl. Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. Source: opted

10. superl. Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. Source: opted

11. adv. In a flat manner; directly; flatly. Source: opted

12. adv. Without allowance for accrued interest. Source: opted

13. n. 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. Source: opted

14. n. 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. Source: opted

15. n. Something broad and flat in form Source: opted

16. n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. Source: opted

17. n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. Source: opted

18. n. A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car. Source: opted

19. n. A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions. Source: opted

20. n. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge. Source: opted

21. n. A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself. Source: opted

22. n. A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. Source: opted

23. n. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. Source: opted

24. n. A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. Source: opted

25. n. A homaloid space or extension. Source: opted

26. v. t. To make flat; to flatten; to level. Source: opted

27. v. t. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Source: opted

28. v. t. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. Source: opted

29. v. i. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. Source: opted

30. v. i. To fall form the pitch. Source: opted

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