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Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. |
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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. |
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Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of
prominence and striking interest. |
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Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or
drink flat to the taste. |
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Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or
spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. |
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Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. |
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Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright. |
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Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. |
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Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. |
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Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or
vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp)
consonant. |
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In a flat manner; directly; flatly. |
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Without allowance for accrued interest. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Something broad and flat in form |
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A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. |
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A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. |
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A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without
sides; a platform car. |
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A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are
carried in processions. |
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The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a
blade, as distinguished from its edge. |
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A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of
a house, which forms a complete residence in itself. |
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A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein;
also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. |
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A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. |
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A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a
half step or semitone lower. |
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A homaloid space or extension. |
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To make flat; to flatten; to level. |
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To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. |
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To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to
lower in pitch by half a tone. |
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To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even
surface. |
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To fall form the pitch. |
