Flat

·vi To fall form the pitch.

II. Flat ·noun A homaloid space or extension.

III. Flat ·noun Something broad and flat in form.

IV. Flat ·adv In a flat manner; directly; flatly.

V. Flat ·noun A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.

VI. Flat ·adv Without allowance for accrued interest.

VII. Flat ·noun A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.

VIII. Flat ·superl Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

IX. Flat ·noun A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

X. Flat ·add. ·adj Flattening at the ends;

— said of certain fruits.

XI. Flat ·vi To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

XII. Flat ·superl Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.

XIII. Flat ·vt To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to Depress.

XIV. Flat ·vt To make flat; to Flatten; to Level.

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

XVI. Flat ·noun A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.

XVII. Flat ·add. ·adj Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;

— said of a club.

XVIII. Flat ·noun A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, ·etc., are carried in processions.

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

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

XXI. Flat ·superl Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

XXIX. Flat ·superl Sonant; vocal;

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

XXX. Flat ·noun 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.

XXXI. Flat ·superl 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.

XXXII. Flat ·noun 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.

XXXIII. Flat ·add. ·adj 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.