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

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

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

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

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

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
see also:
flatted flatting 

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

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
see also:
to flat out 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

flat
     adj 1: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or
            lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level
            farmland"; "a plane surface" syn: level, plane
     2: having no depth or thickness
     3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical
        denial"; "a flat refusal" syn: categoric, categorical,
         unconditional
     4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
        "found himself lying flat on the floor" syn: prostrate
     5: lacking contrast or shading between tones ant: contrasty
     6: lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "b flat" ant: natural,
         sharp
     7: flattened laterally along the whole length e.g., certain
        leafstalks or flatfishes syn: compressed
     8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
        hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
        beer"; "vapid tea" syn: bland, flavorless, flavourless,
         insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
     9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
        little drama"; "a flat joke" syn: bland
     10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
     11: not increasing as the amount taxed increases syn: fixed
     12: not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from
         unleavened dough" syn: unraised
     13: parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
     14: without pleats syn: unpleated
     15: 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
     16: of a tire completely or partially deflated
     17: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
         photograph with a matte finish" syn: mat, matt, matte,
          matted
     18: lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"
     n 1: a level tract of land
     2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
     3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the
        note named
     4: freight car without permanent sides or roof syn: flatcar,
         flatbed
     5: a deflated pneumatic tire syn: flat tire
     6: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted
        canvas; part of a stage setting
     7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
        syn: apartment
     adv 1: at full length; "he fell flat on his face"
     2: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
     3: below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"
     4: against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"
     5: 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, straight
        ant: indirectly
     6: wholly or completely; "he is flat broke"
     also: flatting, flatted, flattest, flatter
see also:
level plane categoric categorical unconditional prostrate 
contrasty natural sharp compressed bland 
flavorless flavourless insipid savorless savourless 
vapid fixed unraised unpleated two-dimensional 
mat matt matte matted flatcar 
flatbed flat tire apartment directly straight 
indirectly flatting flatted flattest flatter 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

892 moby thesaurus words for "flat":
   3-d, pullman, pullman car, abeyant, absolute, absolutely, absonant,
   accented, accidental, accommodation, accordant, accumbent,
   achromatic, achromic, act drop, admitting no exception, alabaster,
   alike, alkali flat, all-out, alluvial plain, alveolar, anemic,
   apace, apartment, apathetic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
   arid, arrowlike, articulated, asbestos, asbestos board, ashen,
   ashy, assimilated, at full length, at full speed, at once, atonal,
   automatic, back, backdrop, baggage car, balanced, baldly, bank,
   bar, barren, barytone, basin, bated, batten, beat, betting house,
   betting parlor, bilabial, billiard table, blah, bland, blank,
   bled white, bloodless, bog, bony, border, boring, bottomland,
   bowling alley, bowling green, boxcar, brashly, brazenly, breve,
   broad, broke, bushveld, busted, caboose, cacophonous, cacuminal,
   cadaverous, campestral, campestrian, campo, car, carriage, casino,
   cataleptic, catatonic, categorical, categorically, central,
   cerebral, certain, chair car, chambers, champaign,
   champaign country, characterless, checked, chloranemic, clear,
   clerestory, close, cloth, coach, coal car, coastal plain, cold,
   cold-water flat, collapsed, colorless, common, commonplace,
   complete, completely, conclusive, consistent, consonant,
   consonantal, constant, continuant, continuous, coral reef,
   couchant, couche, coulisse, counterweight, covered waggon, cracked,
   crawling, creamy, crib, crotchet, crouched, cubic, curtain,
   curtain board, cyclorama, damped, dampened, day coach, dead,
   dead flat, dead level, dead straight, deadened, deadly pale,
   deathly pale, debased, decided, decisive, decor, decumbent,
   definite, definitely, definitive, deflated, delicate, delta,
   demisemiquaver, dental, depressed, desert, determinate, diaphonic,
   digs, dilute, diluted, dim, dimensional, dimmed, diner, dinghy,
   dingy, dining car, direct, directly, discolored, disconsonant,
   discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dismal, dissimilated,
   dissonant, dominant, dominant note, dopey, dormant, dorsal,
   double whole note, down, downright, downs, downy, drab, draggy,
   draped, drawing room, drearisome, dreary, drop, drop curtain, dry,
   dryasdust, dull, dulled, duplex, duplex apartment, dusty, earth,
   effete, eggshell, eighth note, elephantine, empty, enharmonic,
   enharmonic note, entire, entresol, equable, equal, esplanade,
   etiolated, even, evenly, exact, exactly, explicit, express,
   exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint,
   fallow, featureless, fell, fen, final, fire curtain, firm,
   first floor, fixed, flat, flat broke, flat country, flat out,
   flat-chested, flat-out, flatcar, flatland, flatly, flats,
   flattened, flatways, flatwise, flavorless, fleshless, flipper,
   floor, flush, ford, forthwith, foul, fourth-dimensional, front,
   gambling den, gambling hall, gambling hell, gambling house,
   gaming house, gangling, gangly, garden apartment, gaunt, gawky,
   ghastly, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, glide, global,
   gloss, glossal, glottal, gondola, grass veld, grassland, grating,
   gray, groggy, ground, ground floor, groveling, gruelly, guttural,
   haggard, half note, hanging, hard, harsh, heath, heavy, hell,
   hell for leather, hemidemisemiquaver, high, ho-hum, hollow,
   homaloid, homaloidal, homogeneous, horizontal, horizontal axis,
   horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax,
   horizontal plane, horizontal projection, horizontally, hueless,
   humdrum, hypochromic, ice, immediately, immelodious, immutable,
   implicit, in a line, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane,
   inappealable, indifferent, indisputable, indubitable, inert,
   inexcitable, inharmonic, inharmonious, insipid, intonated,
   invariable, iridescent, irrevocable, irrevocably, ivory, jejune,
   joint, knee-high, knocked flat, labial, labiodental, labiovelar,
   lackluster, laid low, lande, languid, languorous, lank, lanky,
   latent, lateral, lax, leaden, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking,
   ledge, leiotrichous, lengthways, lengthwise, level, level line,
   level plane, lifeless, light, like a shot, like greased lightning,
   lineal, linear, lingual, liquid, livid, living quarters, llano,
   local, lodgings, logy, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung,
   low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-spirited,
   low-statured, lowland, lowlands, luggage van, lunar mare, lurid,
   lusterless, lying, lying down, mahogany, mail car, mail van,
   marble, mare, marsh, mat, matte, matter-of-fact, meager, mealy,
   mean sea level, measured, mechanical, mellow, mesa, mesilla,
   methodic, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, mid, mild, milk-and-water,
   minim, monolithic, monophthongal, monotonous, moor, moorland,
   mother-of-pearl, muddy, muffled, mundane, musical note, musicless,
   muted, nacreous, narrow, nasal, nasalized, natural, neap, neutral,
   nonmelodious, note, occlusive, of a piece, off, off-key, off-tone,
   on a level, on the run, oofless, opalescent, open, open country,
   openly, ordered, orderly, ordinary, out of pitch, out of tone,
   out of tune, out-and-out, outright, outspread, outstretched,
   overthrown, oxytone, palace car, palatal, palatalized, pale,
   pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pampa, pampas, pappy,
   parlor car, parterre, passenger car, passive, pastel, pasty,
   patent note, patinaed, pearly, pedestrian, peneplain, penthouse,
   peremptory, perfect, persistent, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
   phlegmatic, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plain,
   plainly, plains, plane, plateau, platform, playa, plodding,
   poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, poolroom, positive,
   positively, posttonic, prairie, prairies, precise, precisely,
   procumbent, prone, proportional, prosaic, prosing, prostrate,
   prosy, pulpy, punctured, quarter note, quaver, quickly, quiet, rag,
   railroad flat, railway car, rapidly, raucous, rawboned, reclining,
   rectilineal, rectilinear, recumbent, reef, reefer,
   refrigerator car, regular, rental, report, reposing,
   responding note, resupine, retroflex, rez-de-chaussee, right,
   robotlike, rolled, roomette, rooms, round, rounded, ruler-straight,
   runty, ruptured, sad, sallow, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan,
   sandals, sandbank, sandbar, sapless, satin, savanna, savorless,
   scene, scenery, scraggy, scrawny, screen, sea level, sea of grass,
   sebkha, sedentary, semibreve, semigloss, semiquaver, semivowel,
   set of rooms, shallow, shallows, shaped note, sharp, shelf, shoal,
   shoal water, short, shrill, sickly, side scene, silk, simple,
   sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, skeletal, skinny, slack,
   sleeper, sleeping, slide, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoker,
   smoking car, smoldering, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured,
   smoothed out, smoothened, smothered, sober, soft, soft-colored,
   soft-hued, softened, solemn, somber, sonant, sordo, sour, space,
   space-time, spare, spatial, spatiotemporal, speedily, spherical,
   spiccato, spiceless, spidery, spindling, spindly, spiritless,
   sporting house, sprawled, sprawling, spread, spread out, squashed,
   squashed flat, squat, squatty, stable, staccato, stage screw,
   stagnant, stale, standard, standing, static, steadfast, steady,
   steppe, steppes, stereoscopic, sterile, stiff, stifled, stockcar,
   stodgy, stone-broke, stony, stooped, stopped, story, straight,
   straight-cut, straight-front, straight-out, straight-side, strand,
   strapped, streamlined, street floor, stressed, stretched out,
   strident, strong, studio, stuffy, stumpy, suave, subdued, subtle,
   suite, superficial, supine, surd, sure, surface, sustained note,
   swamp, sweet, swiftly, syllabic, systematic, tab, table, tableau,
   tableland, tabloid, tabular, tallow-faced, tame, tank, tasteless,
   teaser, tedious, tender, tenement, tennis court, tense, tercet,
   terrace, thick, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed,
   thirty-second note, three-dimensional, throaty, tidal flats, tired,
   tiresome, tonal, tone, toneless, tonic, tormentor, torpid, total,
   transformation, transformation scene, tree veld, triplet, triplex,
   trodden, trodden flat, truck, true, tundra, tuneless, twangy,
   twiggy, two-dimensional, unaccented, unambiguous, unaroused,
   unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged,
   unchanging, uncircumscribed, uncolored, uncompromisingly,
   unconditional, unconditioned, uncurved, undeflected, undersized,
   underweight, undeviating, undifferentiated, undistorted,
   undiversified, undoubting, unelevated, unembellished, unequivocal,
   unexciting, unflavored, unhampered, unharmonious, unhesitating,
   unidealistic, uniform, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting,
   uninterrupted, unlimited, unlively, unmelodious, unmistakable,
   unmitigated, unmodifiable, unmodified, unmusical, unpalatable,
   unpoetic, unpolished, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioning,
   unrealistic, unreserved, unrestricted, unromantic, unrough,
   unroughened, unrounded, unruffled, unsavory, unshiny, unstressed,
   unswerving, untunable, untuned, untuneful, unturned, unvaried,
   unvarying, unwaivable, upland, upright, utter, utterly, van, vapid,
   vega, velar, veld, velvet, vertical, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
   voiceless, volumetric, vowel, vowellike, waggon, wan, washed-out,
   washy, water level, watered, watered-down, watery, waxen, weak,
   weald, wetlands, whey-faced, white, whole, whole note, wholly,
   wide, wide-open spaces, wing, wingcut, wishy-washy, without delay,
   without exception, without reserve, wold, woodcut, wooden

[8] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

flat adj. 1. common lacking any complex internal structure. "that
   bitty box has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one." the
   verb form is flatten. 2. said of a memory architecture like that of
   the vax or 680x0 that is one big linear address space typically with
   each possible value of a processor register corresponding to a unique
   core address, as opposed to a `segmented' architecture like that of
   the 80x86 in which addresses are composed from a base-register/offset
   pair segmented designs are generally considered cretinous.

   note that sense 1 at least with respect to filesystems is usually
   used pejoratively, while sense 2 is a good thing.


see also:
bitty box flatten cretinous good thing 

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

flat
     
        1. lacking any complex internal structure.  "that bitty box
        has only a flat file system, not a hierarchical one."  the verb
        form is flatten.  usually used pejoratively at least with
        respect to file systems.
     
        2. said of a memory architecture like that of the vax or
        motorola 680x0 that is one big linear address space
        typically with each possible value of a processor register
        corresponding to a unique address.  this is a good thing.
        the opposite is a "segmented" architecture like that of the
        intel 80x86 in which addresses are composed from a
        base-register/offset pair.  segmented designs are generally
        considered cretinous.
     
        3. a flat domain is one where all elements except bottom
        are incomparable equally well defined.  e.g. the integers.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
bitty box flatten vax motorola 680x0 good thing 
segmented intel 80x86 domain bottom jargon file 

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

flat, ky
  zip codes: 41301
flat, tx
  zip codes: 76526

[11] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

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
   zip codes 1990:    
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    flat, ak
    flat

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