What is flat?
What is flat?
- Having a horizontal surface without a slope, tilt, or curvature.
- Having a smooth, even, level surface: a skirt sewed with fine flat seams.
- Having a relatively broad surface in relation to thickness or depth: a flat board. See Synonyms at level.
- Stretched out or lying at full length along the ground; prone.
- Free of qualification; absolute: a flat refusal.
- Fixed; unvarying: a flat rate.
- Lacking interest or excitement; dull: a flat scenario.
- Lacking in flavor: a flat stew that needs salt.
- Having lost effervescence or sparkle: flat beer.
- Deflated. Used of a tire.
- Electrically discharged. Used of a storage battery.
- Of or relating to a horizontal line that displays no ups or downs and signifies the absence of physiological activity: A flat electroencephalogram indicates a loss of brain function.
- Commercially inactive; sluggish: flat sales for the month.
- Unmodulated; monotonous: a flat voice.
- Lacking variety in tint or shading; uniform: "The sky was bright but flat, the color of oyster shells” ( Anne Tyler).
- Not glossy; mat: flat paint.
- Music Being below the correct pitch.
- Music Being one half step lower than the corresponding natural key: the key of B flat.
- Designating the vowel a as pronounced in bad or cat.
- Nautical Taut. Used of a sail.
- Level with the ground; horizontally.
- On or up against a flat surface; at full length.
- So as to be flat.
- Directly; completely: went flat against the rules; flat broke.
- Exactly; precisely: arrived in six minutes flat.