| Flat (flat) |
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| a. | (?) |
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| Flat |
| [Compar.
Flatter (?); superl. Flattest (?).]
[Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG.
flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. flötz stratum,
layer.] |
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.
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.
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.
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
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 [***flat]] before
a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone
lower.
A homaloid space or
extension.
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| Flat (flat) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Flat |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Flatted (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Flatting (?).] |
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.
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To
become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
To fall form the
pitch.
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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 -ë, 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.
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