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- (noun): An area of level ground.
- (noun): A note played a 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. ♭♪).
- (noun): A flat tyre/tire.
- (noun): (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
- (noun): (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- (noun): A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
- (noun): The flat part of something:
- (noun): A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (noun): (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- (noun): A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- (noun): A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- (noun): A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- (noun): A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- (noun): A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- (noun): A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- (noun): A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- (noun): A dull fellow; a simpleton.
- (noun): (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.
- (noun): Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- (noun): An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- (verb): To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- (verb): To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- (verb): To fall from the pitch.
- (verb): To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- (verb): To make flat; to flatten; to level.
- (verb): To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
- (adjective): Having no variations in height.
- (adjective): (voice) Without variations in pitch.
- (adjective): Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- (adjective): (note) Lowered by one semitone.
- (adjective): Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (adjective): (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (adjective): Uninteresting.
- (adjective): (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- (adjective): Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (adjective): (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (adjective): (of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- (adjective): Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring.
- (adjective): Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- (adjective): (of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant
- (adjective): (grammar) 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".
- (adjective): (of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- (adjective): (of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (adjective): (authorship, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
- (adjective): Fixed; unvarying.
- (adverb): So as to be flat.
- (adverb): Bluntly.
- (adverb): (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
- (adverb): Completely.
- (adverb): Directly; flatly.
- (adverb): Without allowance for accrued interest.
- She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
- a flat of strawberries
- The land around here is flat.
- That girl is completely flat on both sides.
- Your A string is too flat.
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