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flat
  1. An area of level ground.
  2. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
  3. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
  4. (plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
  5. (plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
  6. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
  7. The flat part of something:
    1. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
    2. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
  8. A wide, shallow container.
  9. (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.
  10. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
  11. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  12. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  13. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
  14. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
  15. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
  16. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
  17. (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.
  18. Synonyms:
  19. Examples:
    1. “In later years, Paley would insist that he had lived in a flat several blocks away, off Grosvenor Square on South Audley Street.”
      “Sediments are washed onto the mud flat by tidal and storm currents.”
      “To prevent this, most clockmakers fit the flat of the pendulum rod tight into the fork.”
flatting
  1. (Australia, New Zealand) The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
  2. (countable) A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.
  3. The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.
  4. (countable) A flat part of something, a flattening.
  5. The process of becoming flat.
  6. The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.
  7. (countable) An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.
  8. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
  9. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers.
flatness
  1. The state of being flat
  2. The state of being two-dimensional; planar : planarity
  3. The state of being bland : dullness
  4. Mattness, the quality of a painted surface which scatters or absorbs the light falling on it, so as to be substantially free from gloss or sheen
  5. (oenology) Lack of bouquet and freshness of a wine, through too much aeration or infection with film yeasts
  6. (statistics) slim-tailedness or platykurticity
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “After the accident, Sarah couldn't escape the overwhelming flatness that seemed to engulf her every day.”
      “The flatness of the soup was disappointing; it lacked any distinctive flavors.”
      “The painter meticulously ensured the flatness of the canvas surface before applying delicate brushstrokes.”
flatty
  1. (regional, slang) A flatfish
  2. (slang) Anything flat (a flat battery, a flat tire, flat terrain etc.)
  3. (archaic, US, slang) A policeman.
  4. (slang) A flathead V8 engine.
  5. (slang) A hot rod fitted with a flathead V8 engine.
  6. Examples:
    1. “Joined by fishing buddy Richard, Nigel, from Colchester, in Essex, was using 10lb class tackle with a two hook flatty trace loaded with coloured attractor beads.”
      “Make sure you also know how to fix a puncture in case you get a flatty.”
flatlander
  1. (pejorative) A person who lives at low altitude (used by those living at higher altitudes)
  2. (physics) An inhabitant of or observer in a universe with two spatial dimensions.
  3. (cycling) A flatland BMX rider.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Chin, who is forty-one, was born and reared a flatlander, in Mankato, Minnesota, where his parents, Chinese immigrants, worked as librarians.”
      “If you live in Maine long enough, you're used to getting the Call from a flatlander, usually on the morning after some serious weather.”
      “This is custom fork for a french flatlander who perfectly knew what he wanted.”
flatscape
  1. Any flat surface or area; a platform.
  2. A flat landscape.
  3. A landscape lacking distinguishable or interesting features; a plain or monotonous landscape.
flatland
  1. Any land of relatively constant altitude (with no hills).
  2. (Ireland, informal) An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “After exploring gentle mountain slopes, taiga flatland and highland barrens, we suddenly reached the plateau's edge.”
      “Now, in August, the shrill sound of grasshoppers rang out across the undulating flatland beyond Sand Creek.”
      “Up well away from the river now in the heart of the flatland, insects are hitting the windshield.”
flattening
flatification
  1. (rare) A flattening, as of a sheaf in mathematics.
flat
  1. An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In later years, Paley would insist that he had lived in a flat several blocks away, off Grosvenor Square on South Audley Street.”
      “Sediments are washed onto the mud flat by tidal and storm currents.”
      “To prevent this, most clockmakers fit the flat of the pendulum rod tight into the fork.”
flatlands
  1. A terrain that varies little in elevation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Anyway, the views from the top are terrific, one way down and out of the valley, over the flatlands to the North York Moors.”
      “Then you go further south and the huge mountains turns into rolling hills and the rolling hills turn into flatlands.”
      “The fertile valley, surrounded by desert mountains, ends in flatlands and on to the sea.”
flatlet
  1. (Britain) A very small flat (apartment)
  2. Examples:
    1. “The original plan entailed joining two rooms to create a single flatlet but this required the displacement of half the households.”
      “Letting from flatlet 20 m² to three bedrooms 90 m². Each flat own a terrace with view port or sea.”
      “The flat, which he was ushered into by Terry, was no more than a flatlet, with kitchenette, bathroomette, and a bed-sitting-room with hideaway bed.”
flattishness
  1. Quality of being flattish.
flattener
  1. Anything that flattens.
flattage
  1. (technical theatre) flats, taken as a whole
flatties
flatifications
  1. plural of flatification
flatlanders
  1. plural of flatlander
  2. Examples:
    1. “Acclimatization is relatively quick, and even flatlanders from the Midwest can go out and ski without any ill effects.”
      “That said, hiking here takes preparation, especially for flatlanders.”
      “He moved to New England to teach skiing, which is how he met my grandmother, a Philadelphia society girl who was among the early wave of modish flatlanders to take up the sport under the tutelage of the Austrians.”
flattenings
flatscapes
  1. plural of flatscape
flatteners
  1. plural of flattener
flattings
  1. plural of flatting
flatnesses
flatlets
  1. plural of flatlet
  2. Examples:
    1. “Some hostels are to be converted into flatlets accommodating two to six people.”
flats
  1. plural of flat
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The gun was bead blasted around the top of the slide and bottom of the frame and the flats were given a nice, even polish before bluing.”
      “Indexing flats on the tailcap and main body of the light make this easy to do, even in darkness.”
      “It is a London voice, it is the sound of the mudlark children in the clay flats herding their goats, selling their dung.”
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