Dutch Meaning of flat
plat
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Definitions and Meaning of flat in English
flat (n)
a level tract of land
a shallow box in which seedlings are started
a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
freight car without permanent sides or roof
a deflated pneumatic tire
scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
flat (s)
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
not modified or restricted by reservations
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
lacking taste or flavor or tang
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
having lost effervescence
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
horizontally level
lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
not reflecting light; not glossy
commercially inactive
flat (a)
lacking contrast or shading between tones
(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
flat (r)
with flat sails
in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
flat (superl.)
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
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.
Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
flat (adv.)
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
Without allowance for accrued interest.
flat (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.
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.
Something broad and flat in form
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
A homaloid space or extension.
flat (v. t.)
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
flat (v. i.)
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
To fall form the pitch.
flat (a.)
Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.
Not having an inflectional ending or sign, 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. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -e, the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic.
Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
FAQs About the word flat
plat
a level tract of land, a shallow box in which seedlings are started, a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named, freight car without
exact,rond,precies,zelfs
ongeveer,vergelijkend,in de buurt van,relatief,onnauwkeurig
flaskful => kolf, flasket => fles, flask => Kolf, flashy => opzichtig, flashpoint => vlampunt,
