| 单词 | flat |
| 释义 | flat (once / 98 pages) 1adjnadv 2adjn 3adjadv 4adjn 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. Geometrically, something flat is an even, level plane, like Kansas relative to the Rocky Mountains, or the cargo area of a flatbed truck. As an adjective, flat means "less than lively." A flat soda has no bubbles. If your speech falls flat, no one was excited. If you get mugged you might choose to lie flat on the ground. A flat note is just below the right pitch. And if you're cooking is flat, it's boring. WORD FAMILYflat: flatlet, flatly, flatness, flats, flatted, flatten, flattest, flatting+/flatlet: flatlets/flatness: flatnesses/flatten: flattened, flattening, flattens USAGE EXAMPLESMr Tsang pleaded not guilty to three charges of bribery and misconduct, relating to a luxury flat in China. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Gold XAU= was sluggish, with the precious metal sliding about 0.1 percent to $1,150.82, after a flat start to the year on Monday. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) The 25-year-old victim fell through the corrugated plastic ceiling of a kitchen annexe in a basement flat on Charles Road on New Year's Day. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj 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 Syn level, plane even being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) 2adj horizontally level a flat roof Syn horizontal parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line 3adj flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) Syn compressed thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section 4adj having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness flat computer monitors Syn planar, two-dimensional involving two dimensions 5adj stretched out and lying at full length along the ground found himself lying flat on the floor Syn prostrate unerect not upright in position or posture 6n a level tract of land the salt flats of Utah Hypo|Hyper alluvial flat, alluvial plain a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water salt flat, salt plaina flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water champaign, field, plain extensive tract of level open land 7n a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house Syn|Hypo|Hyper apartment bedsit, bedsitter, bedsitting room a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) cold-water flatan apartment without modern conveniences duplex, duplex apartmentan apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase efficiency apartmenta furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom flatleta tiny flat maisonette, maisonnettea self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside penthousean apartment located on the top floors of a building railroad flatan apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them studio, studio apartmentan apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen rooms, suiteapartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) walk-up, walk-up apartmentan apartment in a building without an elevator housing, living accommodations, lodging structures collectively in which people are housed 8n a shallow box in which seedlings are started Hyper box a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid 9n freight car without permanent sides or roof Syn|Hyper flatbed, flatcar freight car a railway car that carries freight 10n scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting Hypo|Hyper coulisse, wing flat a flat situated in the wings teaser, tormenter, tormentora flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings scene, scenery the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale 11adv with flat sails 2sail flat against the wind 1adj lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting a flat joke Syn bland unexciting, unstimulating not stimulating 2adj lacking taste or flavor or tang Syn bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid tasteless lacking flavor 3adj having lost effervescence flat beer a flat cola Syn noneffervescent not effervescent 4adj commercially inactive flat sales for the month prices remained flat a flat market Syn inactive (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly 5adj not reflecting light; not glossy flat wall paint Syn mat, matt, matte, matted dull emitting or reflecting very little light 6n a deflated pneumatic tire 3Syn|Hyper flat tire pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc 1adj not modified or restricted by reservations a flat refusal Syn categoric, categorical, unconditional unqualified not limited or restricted 2adj lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth a flat two-dimensional painting Syn 2-dimensional, two-dimensional multidimensional having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects 3adj sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch Syn monotone, monotonic, monotonous unmodulated characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume 4adj lacking contrast or shading between tones Ant contrasty having sharp differences between black and white 5adv in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly 4came out flat for less work and more pay Syn|Ant directly, straight indirectly not in a forthright manner 1adj (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone B flat Ant natural (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone sharp(of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone 2n a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named Hypo|Hyper double flat a musical notation of two flats in front of a note indicating that it is to be lowered by two semitones musical notation (music) notation used by musicians |
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