A flat is an apartment. If a girl invites you up to her flat, she's not trying to squash you, she's inviting you over. And she's probably from England, because flat is much more common in British than American English.
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
Noun
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
Noun
scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
Noun
a deflated pneumatic tire
Noun
a shallow box in which seedlings are started
Noun
freight car without permanent sides or roof
Noun
a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
Noun
a level tract of land
Adjective S.
lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"
Adjective S.
not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
Adjective S.
(of a tire) completely or partially deflated
Adjective S.
having no depth or thickness
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"
Adjective
lacking contrast or shading between tones
Adjective S.
without pleats
Adjective S.
parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
Adjective S.
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
Adjective S.
not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough"
Adjective
lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"
Adjective S.
not increasing as the amount taxed increases
Adjective S.
not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"
Adjective S.
having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
Adjective S.
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
Adjective S.
lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
Adjective S.
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Adverb
wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"
Adverb
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"
Adverb
at full length; "he fell flat on his face"
Adverb
against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"
Adverb
below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"
Adverb
with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
superl.
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
superl.
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.
superl.
Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of
prominence and striking interest.
superl.
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or
drink flat to the taste.
superl.
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or
spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
superl.
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
superl.
Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.
superl.
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
superl.
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
superl.
Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or
vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp)
consonant.
adv.
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
adv.
Without allowance for accrued interest.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
Something broad and flat in form
n.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
n.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
n.
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without
sides; a platform car.
n.
A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are
carried in processions.
n.
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a
blade, as distinguished from its edge.
n.
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of
a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
n.
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein;
also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
n.
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
n.
A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a
half step or semitone lower.
n.
A homaloid space or extension.
v. t.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
v. t.
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
v. t.
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to
lower in pitch by half a tone.
v. i.
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even
surface.
v. i.
To fall form the pitch.
Flat
Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.2.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat!
I feel . . . my hopes all flat.3.
A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.4.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world.6.
Flat burglary as ever was committed.
A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.8.
Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott.
Flat
Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.2.
Flat
Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.2.
Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide.3.
Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat.8.
Flat
Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.3.
Flat
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fal to an even surface.
Usage Examples
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
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Other Usage ExamplesI used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
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