1. Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
   "a flat desk"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
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1. A level tract of land
   "the salt flats of Utah" 
2. A shallow box in which seedlings are started 
3. A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named 
4. [N. Amer] Freight car without permanent sides or roof
   - flatcar [N. Amer], flatbed 
5. [N. Amer] A deflated pneumatic tire
   - flat tire [N. Amer], flat tyre [Brit], puncture 
6. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting 
7. [Brit] A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
   - apartment

1. With flat sails
   "sail flat against the wind" 
2. In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
   "came out flat for less work and more pay"
   - directly, straight

1. (music) lower a note in pitch 
2. [Austral, NZ] Live in or share an apartment

Derived forms: flats, flatting, flattest, flatter, flatted

See also: dull, even, flatlet [Brit], flatness, horizontal, inactive, multidimensional, noneffervescent, planar, tasteless, thin, two-dimensional, uncharged, unerect, unexciting, unmodulated, unqualified, unstimulating

Type of: box, champaign, field, freight car, housing, living accommodations, lodging, musical notation, plain, pneumatic tire [N. Amer], pneumatic tyre [Brit], scene, scenery

Antonym: contrasty, natural, sharp

Part of: apartment building, apartment house, mise en scène, setting, stage setting

Encyclopedia: Flat, Alaska Flat, MO Flat Flat, AK Flat, Missouri Flat, Texas Flat, tx Flat, Puy-de-Dome Flat, Puy-de-Dôme

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