|
|
|
|
See my other projects: weather, dict, payphones, mailboxes, receipts, found photos, court documents, what is my ip?, and more at sorabji.com.
Flat
FLAT, a. [L. latus, broad; Gr.; Eng. blade.]
1. Having an even surface, without risings or indentures, hills or valleys; as flat land.
2. Horizontal; level; without inclination; as a flat roof; or with a moderate inclination or slope; for we often apply the word to the roof of a house that is not steep, though inclined.
3. Prostrate; lying the whole length on the ground. He fell or lay flat on the ground.
4. Not elevated or erect; fallen.
Cease t'admire, and beauty's plumes fall flat.
5. Level with the ground; totally fallen.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat.
6. In painting, wanting relief or prominence of the figures.
7. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as fruit flat to the taste.
8. Dull; unanimated; frigid; without point or spirit; applied to discourses and compositions. The sermon was very flat.
9. Depressed; spiritless; dejected.
I feel - my hopes all flat.
10. Unpleasing; not affording gratification.
How flat and insipid are all the pleasures of this life!
11. Peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. He gave the petitioner a flat denial.
Thus repulsed, our final hope is flat despair.
12. Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as a flat sound.
13. Low, as the prices of goods; or dull, as sales.
FLAT, n.
1. A level or extended plain. In America, it is applied particularly to low ground or meadow that is level, but it denotes any land of even surface and of some extent.
2. A level ground lying at a small depth under the surface of water; a shoal; a shallow; a strand; a sand bank under water.
3. The broad side of a blade.
4. Depression of thought or language.
5. A surface without relief or prominences.
6. In music, a mark of depression in sound. A flat denotes a fall or depression of half a tone.
7. A boat, broad and flat-bottomed. A flat-bottomed boat is constructed for conveying passengers or troops, horses, carriages and baggage.
FLAT, v.t.
1. To level; to depress; to lay smooth or even; to make broad and smooth; to flatten.
2. To make vapid or tasteless.
3. To make dull or unanimated.
FLAT, v.i.
1. To grow flat; to fall to an even surface.
2. To become insipid, or dull and unanimated.
flat appears in definitions for these words:
Abacus Acroter Adulation Adulator Adulatory Adulatress Aflat Allagite Allure Amuse Anaclastic Anglic Annulet Antiflattering Antithesis Apatite Ape Apophthegm Apron Archflatterer Assentation Assentator Atherina Attach Averse Awl Axinite B Bac Band Bandelet Bank Barge Bass-relief Bastion Battle-door Bean Beat Beaver Bed Beet Bilamellate Blandiloquence Blandish Blandisher Blandishing Blow Bluff Bone Bonny Botetto Bottom Bottomed Bubulca Bug Burbot Burt Button Buy Cajole Cajoler Cajolery Cajoling Cake Camoys Can-hook Captation Captive Carminative Carob Cast Castor Cavesson Cetaceous Champagne Clap Claw Coax Coaxed Coaxer Coaxing Cob Cog Cogged Cogger Compliment Complimenter Compressed Conceited Corona Court Court-dresser Courted Courtier Courting Courtly Cringe Cringer Cromlech Curry Cyme Dab Daub Dauber Daubing Deaden Descend Die Diminish Discous Dish Dolphin Down Dragons-blood Drip Dupe Ear Earth Either Enticement Enticing Even-tide Face Fascia Fawn Fawner Fawning Fawningly Feel Ferule Flaccidness Flagelet Flagged Flagging Flagstone Flat Flat-bottomed Flative Flatlong Flatly Flatness Flatted Flatten Flattening Flatter Flatterer Flattering Flatteringly Flattery Flattish Flatulence Flatulent Flatuosity Flatuous Flatus Flatwise Floating Flounder Flummery Flute Flyboat Flycatcher Food Footlicker Forelock Forsake Frieze Frontless Fullsome Galley Gild Gipseyism Glaver Glaverer Gloze Glozer Glozing Goldthread Gondola Good Grampus Hail Halberd Harpoon Hermodactyl Holm Hornbill Huff Hypocrateriform Impression Insinuate Insipid Insnare Inveigle Inveigler Iridium Iron Keel Kidney Lanch Larmier Lateral Lead Leaf Lee Legacy-hunter Lentil Level Lias Lichen Lighter Lightly Ligulate Ling Lodge Lodged Lumpfish Luscious Manta Mat Meadow Membranaceous Miemite Minion Mouth Musk Nail Narrow Natural Nose-fish Nummulite Oar Oblate Obsequious Obsequiousness Obtain Officiously Orang-outang Orphean Ostentation Out Palaver Parasite Parasitic Parasitically Paw Pike Plaice Plaise Planchet Planipetalous Plano-convex Plat Platband Plate Platen Platey Platform Platting Pleaser Pledget Plinth Point Pontoon Porpite Portgrave Pram Proa Prostrate Prostrated Prostrating Prostration Psaltery Puerility Puff Punt Purchase Quoit Reussite Riglet Roof Rope-bands Rotate Rotato-plane Round Rowel Sanidium Scow Seduce Seducement Seducer Seduction Seductive Self-flattering Self-flattery Semi-columnar Servile Set Shallow Sharpen Sick Sign Simous Skate Slade Slot Smooth Snub Socle Soothe Soothed Soother Soothing Soothingly Sounding-board Spheroid Squash Squat Strap Stratum Stuff Sugar Supparasitation Supple Sycophancy Sycophant Sycophantic Sycophantize Table Table-land Tablet Tabular Tabulate Tabulated Tafferel Talc Tamtam Temptation Terrace Terre-plein Thumb Thwack Tile To Touch Tower Trail Trailed Trailing Tributary Tympanites Tympany Underneath Unflattered Unflattering Unsay Vapid Vapidness Vapor Vaporous Ventosity Wheedle Wheedled Wheedling Wheel-shaped Wind Windiness Windy
Abacus Acroter Adulation Adulator Adulatory Adulatress Aflat Allagite Allure Amuse Anaclastic Anglic Annulet Antiflattering Antithesis Apatite Ape Apophthegm Apron Archflatterer Assentation Assentator Atherina Attach Averse Awl Axinite B Bac Band Bandelet Bank Barge Bass-relief Bastion Battle-door Bean Beat Beaver Bed Beet Bilamellate Blandiloquence Blandish Blandisher Blandishing Blow Bluff Bone Bonny Botetto Bottom Bottomed Bubulca Bug Burbot Burt Button Buy Cajole Cajoler Cajolery Cajoling Cake Camoys Can-hook Captation Captive Carminative Carob Cast Castor Cavesson Cetaceous Champagne Clap Claw Coax Coaxed Coaxer Coaxing Cob Cog Cogged Cogger Compliment Complimenter Compressed Conceited Corona Court Court-dresser Courted Courtier Courting Courtly Cringe Cringer Cromlech Curry Cyme Dab Daub Dauber Daubing Deaden Descend Die Diminish Discous Dish Dolphin Down Dragons-blood Drip Dupe Ear Earth Either Enticement Enticing Even-tide Face Fascia Fawn Fawner Fawning Fawningly Feel Ferule Flaccidness Flagelet Flagged Flagging Flagstone Flat Flat-bottomed Flative Flatlong Flatly Flatness Flatted Flatten Flattening Flatter Flatterer Flattering Flatteringly Flattery Flattish Flatulence Flatulent Flatuosity Flatuous Flatus Flatwise Floating Flounder Flummery Flute Flyboat Flycatcher Food Footlicker Forelock Forsake Frieze Frontless Fullsome Galley Gild Gipseyism Glaver Glaverer Gloze Glozer Glozing Goldthread Gondola Good Grampus Hail Halberd Harpoon Hermodactyl Holm Hornbill Huff Hypocrateriform Impression Insinuate Insipid Insnare Inveigle Inveigler Iridium Iron Keel Kidney Lanch Larmier Lateral Lead Leaf Lee Legacy-hunter Lentil Level Lias Lichen Lighter Lightly Ligulate Ling Lodge Lodged Lumpfish Luscious Manta Mat Meadow Membranaceous Miemite Minion Mouth Musk Nail Narrow Natural Nose-fish Nummulite Oar Oblate Obsequious Obsequiousness Obtain Officiously Orang-outang Orphean Ostentation Out Palaver Parasite Parasitic Parasitically Paw Pike Plaice Plaise Planchet Planipetalous Plano-convex Plat Platband Plate Platen Platey Platform Platting Pleaser Pledget Plinth Point Pontoon Porpite Portgrave Pram Proa Prostrate Prostrated Prostrating Prostration Psaltery Puerility Puff Punt Purchase Quoit Reussite Riglet Roof Rope-bands Rotate Rotato-plane Round Rowel Sanidium Scow Seduce Seducement Seducer Seduction Seductive Self-flattering Self-flattery Semi-columnar Servile Set Shallow Sharpen Sick Sign Simous Skate Slade Slot Smooth Snub Socle Soothe Soothed Soother Soothing Soothingly Sounding-board Spheroid Squash Squat Strap Stratum Stuff Sugar Supparasitation Supple Sycophancy Sycophant Sycophantic Sycophantize Table Table-land Tablet Tabular Tabulate Tabulated Tafferel Talc Tamtam Temptation Terrace Terre-plein Thumb Thwack Tile To Touch Tower Trail Trailed Trailing Tributary Tympanites Tympany Underneath Unflattered Unflattering Unsay Vapid Vapidness Vapor Vaporous Ventosity Wheedle Wheedled Wheedling Wheel-shaped Wind Windiness Windy
|
