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   Flat , a. [Compar. Flatter ; superl. Flattest .] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. flötz stratum, layer.]
   Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
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   Though sun and moon
   Were in the flat sea sunk.
   Milton.
   
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   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.
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   What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat!
   Milton.
   
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   I feel . . . my hopes all flat.
   Milton.
   
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   (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
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   A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
   Coleridge.
   
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   Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
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   Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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   How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
   Seem to me all the uses of this world.
   Shak.
   
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   Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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   Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
   Syn. -- flat-out.
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   Flat burglary as ever was committed.
   Shak.
   
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   A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
   Marston.
   
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   (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.
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   (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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   (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.
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   (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 -ë, the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic.
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   (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
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   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. 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.
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   Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
   Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott.
   Lord Erskine.
   
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2.       
   Flat , adv.
   In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
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   Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.
   Herbert.
   
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   (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]
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   Flat, n.
   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.
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   Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.
   Bacon.
   
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   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.
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   Half my power, this night
   Passing these flats, are taken by the tide.
   Shak.
   
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   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.
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   The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
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   (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.
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   (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
   Raymond.
   
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   A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.]
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   Or if you can not make a speech,
   Because you are a flat.
   Holmes.
   
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   (Mus.) A character [♭] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
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   (Geom.) A homaloid space or extension.
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   Flat , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flatting .]
   To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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   To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
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   Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
   Barrow.
   
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   To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
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   Flat, v. i.
   To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
   Sir W. Temple.
   
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   (Mus.) To fall form the pitch.
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   To flat out, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.]
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