Flat

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

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.

Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.

Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.

Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.

Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.

Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.

Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.

In a flat manner; directly; flatly.

Without allowance for accrued interest.

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.

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.

Something broad and flat in form

A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.

A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.

A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.

The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.

A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.

A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.

A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.

A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.

A homaloid space or extension.

To make flat; to flatten; to level.

To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

To fall form the pitch.

commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

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"

a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"