flat
What is the Definition of flat?
Noun:
- 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
Adjective:
- 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
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- (of a musical note)
- 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
Adverb:
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
How can I use flat in a sentence?
It was a clear, breezy day, and the grass rippled under their feet as they marched down the sloping lawns toward a smooth, flat lawn on the opposite side of the grounds to the forbidden forest, whose trees were swaying darkly in the distance.
Harry and Dudley promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen at the keyhole; Dudley won, so Harry, his glasses dangling from one ear, lay flat on his stomach to listen at the crack between door and floor.
The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them.
Eyes watering, they saw, flat on the floor in front of them, a troll even larger than the one they had tackled, out cold with a bloody lump on its head.
Harry yelled at Hermione, trying to pull her toward the door, but she could not move, she was still flat against the wall, her mouth open with terror.
Other meanings of flat (synonyms, cognates).
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| flat path |
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| flatbed |
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| flatfoot |
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| flatfooted |
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| flatiron |
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| flatland |
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| flatly |
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| flatness |
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| flattening |
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| flatterer |
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| flattery |
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| flatulence |
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| flatware |
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| flatworm |
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