flat

Meaning

Adj

1. Having no variations in height.
2. Having no variations in height.
3. Having no variations in height.
4. (slang) Having no variations in height.
5. Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
6. Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
7. (not-comparable) Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
8. Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
9. Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
10. Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
11. (figuratively) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
12. (especially, figuratively) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
13. Lowered by one semitone.
14. Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
15. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
16. Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
17. With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
18. Lacking acidity without being sweet.
19. Unable to emit power; dead.
20. Without spin; spinless.
21. (dated) Sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
22. 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".
23. Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
24. Flattening at the ends.
25. Exact.
26. Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
27. Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
28. Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
29. Having little froth and little milk.
30. (UK, obsolete, slang) Foolish; simple-minded.

Adv

1. So as to be flat.
2. Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
3. Exactly, precisely.
4. Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
5. Without parole.
6. Completely.
7. Directly; flatly.
8. (slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.

Noun

1. An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
2. An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
3. (sometimes) An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
4. (Australia, sometimes) An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
5. An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
6. A note played one chromatic 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. ♭♪).
7. (informal) A flat tyre/flat tire.
8. (in-plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
9. (in-plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
10. A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
11. The most prominent flat part of something.
12. The most prominent flat part of something.
13. The most prominent flat part of something.
14. A wide, shallow container or pallet.
15. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of flat water (“nonfizzy drinking water”).
16. A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
17. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
18. A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
19. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
20. A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
21. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
22. A flat sheet for use on a bed.
23. A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
24. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
25. A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
26. A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
27. Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
28. (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
29. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
30. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
31. A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
32. (slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
33. (British-Columbia, Canadian-Prairies) A 24-case of beer.

Verb

1. (slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
2. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
3. (colloquial, intransitive) To fall from the pitch.
4. (transitive) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
5. (dated, transitive) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
6. (dated, transitive) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

Noun

A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat or strike; pound
2. (transitive) To dash or throw
3. (intransitive) To dash, rush

Opposite of

round

Synonyms

level

even

smooth

apartment

plane

plain

dull

wide

flattened

insipid

straight

tasteless

prostrate

horizontal

broad

vapid

thin

monotonous

lifeless

flat and wide

bland

categorical

flavorless

shallow

flavourless

planar

prone

directly

level surface

deflated

blunt

flush

clear

uninteresting

levelly

horizontally

stale

grindstone

square

savourless

flatcar

pointless

flatbed

slippery

dead

💀

equal

muffled

downright

place

direct

Translations

plat

plano

flach

piano

piatto

llano

appartement

plat

bemolle

bémol

platt

chato

appartamento

eben

Wohnung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flæt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: flat

Cognate with Swedish: flat

Cognate with Danish: flad

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: flot

Cognate with German: Flöz

Cognate with Ancient Greek: πλατύς

Cognate with Latvian: plats

Cognate with Sanskrit: प्रथस्

Cognate with Old Frisian: flet

In summary

From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.

Sentences

The pods are usually rectangular , but sometimes appear flat .