[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flat \flat\ fla^t, a. compar. flatter fla^t"r~er;
   superl. flattest fla^t"te^st. akin to icel. flatr,
   sw. flat, dan. flad, ohg. flaz, and as. flet floor, g.
   fl"otz 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
see also:
flatter flattest flat arch arch flat cap paper 
flat chasing flat chisel flat file file flat nail 
flat paper flat rail flat rods flat rope flat space 
euclidian space flat stitch flat tint to fall flat 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

flat file
     n : a file with two flat surfaces

[3] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

flat file
     
         a single file containing flat
        ascii representing or encoding some structure, e.g. of a
        database, tree, or network.  flat files can be processed
        with general purpose tools e.g. awk or perl and text
        editors but are often less efficient than some kind of
        binary file if they must be parsed repeatedly by a
        program.  flat files are more portable between different
        operating systems and application programs than binary
        files, and are more easily transmitted in electronic mail.
     
        see also flatten, sharchive.
     
        jargon file
     
        1996-01-26
     
     
see also:
flat ascii database awk perl text editors binary file 
parsed operating systems application programs electronic mail flatten 
sharchive jargon file 

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