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10 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flat \Flat\, a. 1. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club. 2. (Gram.) 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 -["e], the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic. 3. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends -- said of certain fruits. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flatted}; p. pr & vb n. {Flatting}.] 1. To make flat; to flatten; to level. 2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. --Barrow. 3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flat \Flat\, v. i. 1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. --Sir W. Temple. 2. (Mus.) To fall form the pitch. {To flat out}, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flat \Flat\, a. [Compar. {Flatter}; superl. {Flattest}.] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS flet floor, G. fl["o]tz stratum, layer.] 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. 2. 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. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is to me very flat. --Coleridge. 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. A great tobacco taker too -- that's flat. --Marston. 8. (Mus.) a Below the true pitch; hence as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as a flat seventh A flat. b Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as a flat sound. 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. {Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b). {Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}. {Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight. {Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. {Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See {File}. {Flat nail}, a small sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight. {Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded. {Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. {Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond. {Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight. {Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}. {Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. {To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flat \Flat\, adv 1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly. Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. --Herbert. 2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flat \Flat\, n. 1. 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. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. --Bacon. 2. 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. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. --Shak. 3. Something broad and flat in form as: a A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. b A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. c (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car d A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions. 4. The flat part or side of anything as the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge. 5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flat adj 1: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: {level}, {plane}] 2: having no depth or thickness 3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: {categoric}, {categorical}, {unconditional}] 4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: {prostrate}] 5: (photography) lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: {contrasty}] 6: (music) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: {natural}, {sharp}] 7: (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: {compressed}] 8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: {bland}, {flavorless}, {flavourless}, {insipid}, {savorless}, {vapid}] 9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: {bland}] 10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" 11: not increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: {fixed}] 12: not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" [syn: {unraised}] 13: parallel to the ground; "a flat roof" 14: without pleats [syn: {unpleated}] 15: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: {two-dimensional}] 16: (of a tire) completely or partially deflated 17: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: {mat}, {matt}, {matte}, {matted}] 18: lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting" n 1: a level tract of land 2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started 3: a notation indicating one half step lower than the note named 4: without permanent sides or roof [syn: {flatcar}] 5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: {flat tire}] 6: a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting 7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: {apartment}] adv 1: at full length; "he fell flat on his face" 2: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" 3: below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night" 4: against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back" 5: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: {directly}, {straight}] [ant: {indirectly}] 6: wholly or completely; "He is flat broke" From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Flat, KY Zip code(s): 41301 Flat, TX Zip code(s): 76526 From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: flat adj 1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure. "That {bitty box} has only a flat filesystem not a hierarchical one." The verb form is {flatten}. 2. Said of a memory architecture (like that of the VAX or 680x0) that is one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique core address), as opposed to a `segmented' architecture (like that of the 80x86) in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair (segmented designs are generally considered {cretinous}). Note that sense 1 (at least with respect to filesystems) is usually used pejoratively, while sense 2 is a {Good Thing}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: flat 1. Lacking any complex internal structure. "That {bitty box} has only a flat file system, not a hierarchical one." The verb form is {flatten}. Usually used pejoratively (at least with respect to file systems). 2. Said of a memory architecture like that of the {VAX} or {Motorola} {680x0} that is one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique address). This is a {Good Thing}. The opposite is a "{segmented}" architecture like that of the {Intel 80x86} in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset pair. Segmented designs are generally considered cretinous. 3. A flat {domain} is one where all elements except {bottom} are incomparable (equally well defined). E.g. the integers. [{Jargon File}]
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