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- English Word Flat Definition Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
- English Word Flat Definition Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
- English Word Flat Definition Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
- English Word Flat Definition Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
- English Word Flat Definition Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
- English Word Flat Definition Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
- English Word Flat Definition Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
- English Word Flat Definition Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
- English Word Flat Definition In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
- English Word Flat Definition Without allowance for accrued interest.
- English Word Flat Definition 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.
- English Word Flat Definition 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.
- English Word Flat Definition Something broad and flat in form
- English Word Flat Definition A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- English Word Flat Definition A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- English Word Flat Definition A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
- English Word Flat Definition A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
- English Word Flat Definition The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
- English Word Flat Definition A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
- English Word Flat Definition A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.