Definitions For Flat

noun

• A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
• Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
• A deflated pneumatic tire
• A shallow box in which seedlings are started
• Freight car without permanent sides or roof
• A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
• A level tract of land
• A level area of land
• A flat part or surface
• A musical note that is one semitone lower than a specified note

adjective

• Commercially inactive
• Not reflecting light; not glossy
• Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
• Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
• Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
• Horizontally level
• Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
• Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
• Not modified or restricted by reservations
• Having lost effervescence
• Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
• Lacking taste or flavor or tang
• Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

adjective

• Lacking contrast or shading between tones
• (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone

adverb

• In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
• With flat sails

verb

• On or against a flat surface
• In the position of someone or something that is lying spread out on the ground or another surface
• Exactly or precisely