'Flat' definitions:

Definition of 'flat'

From: WordNet
adverb
With flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
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" [syn: directly, flat, straight] [ant: indirectly]
adjective
Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams" [syn: flat, level, plane]
adjective
Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors"
adjective
Not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional]
adjective
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat, prostrate]
adjective
Lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty]
adjective
(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp]
adjective
Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed, flat]
adjective
Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]
adjective
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat]
adjective
Having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
adjective
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous]
adjective
Horizontally level; "a flat roof"
adjective
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, 2-dimensional, flat]
adjective
Not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt, matte, matted]
adjective
Commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"
noun
A level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
noun
A shallow box in which seedlings are started
noun
A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
noun
Freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar, flatbed, flat]
noun
A deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat, flat tire]
noun
Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
noun
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: apartment, flat]

Definition of 'Flat'

From: GCIDE
  • Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. Flatter (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r); superl. Flattest (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [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. [1913 Webster]
  • Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. [1913 Webster]
  • A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. [1913 Webster]
  • How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
  • Syn: flat-out. [1913 Webster]
  • Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 11. (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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flat'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself; an apartment taking up a whole floor. In this latter sense, the usage is more common in British English. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • 6. (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. --Holmes. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mus.) A character [[flat]] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. (Geom.) A homaloid space or extension. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flat'

From: GCIDE
  • Flat \Flat\, adv.
  • 1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly. [1913 Webster]
  • Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flat'

From: GCIDE
  • Flat \Flat\, v. i.
  • 1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mus.) To fall form the pitch. [1913 Webster]
  • To flat out, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flat'

From: GCIDE
  • Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flatting.]
  • 1. To make flat; to flatten; to level. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. [1913 Webster]
  • Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'flat'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Flat, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Flat, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000) :
4
Housing Units (2000) :
3
Land area (2000) :
161.068896 sq. miles (417.166508 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
161.068896 sq. miles (417.166508 sq. km)
FIPS code :
25880
Located within :
Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location :
62.454135 N, 158.008284 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.