What's the difference between bungalow and flat?

Bungalow


Definition:

  • (n.) A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
  • (2) She charges £65 a week for the downstairs room in the four-bedroom bungalow she shares with her sister.
  • (3) There’s a lot of them.” Other people on the waiting list for new homes – wooden bungalows or trailers – are what she calls “burn downs”, whose homes were destroyed by fire from candles, kerosene heaters or pot belly stoves.
  • (4) 'There, you were in an individual bungalow without even a gap in the door, so even if you shouted out you couldn't talk to anyone.
  • (5) Bungalows appear to be going out of favour, despite ageing demographics.
  • (6) Where to stay: Alumbung Bohol is a comfortable resort of beachside bungalows on popular Panglao island (from £20 per night).
  • (7) But those crows also gather on the blackened rafters of British-era bungalows, while tanks and artillery pieces on which the wealth of a poor nation was squandered for decades sit rusting on hilltops.
  • (8) The mayor was a man of simple tastes, never moving away from his modest bungalow in the French-speaking east end of the city and drinking hot water every morning for breakfast.
  • (9) She screamed, and then I had to walk back down to the bungalow on my own in the dark feeling frightened."
  • (10) Flood rescue teams from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service are now conducting street by street searches to ensure no one is left behind in the bungalows under water in Rhyl, north Wales.
  • (11) She decided to try to stay in her bungalow and live as independently as possible.
  • (12) This had been automatically triggered by the number of final demands sent to the now empty bungalow.
  • (13) Effects on linguistic ability of transferring retarded adults from a large institution to small "family" bungalows were examined.
  • (14) A couple of miles away, a row of bungalows next to the river and the Rochdale Canal had been flooded, and the Luddendenfoot bowling club was also under water.
  • (15) They rented a bungalow in Màlaga and, for once, Wahlöö did most of the writing.
  • (16) Barakzai said his apartment plot was built on family land that once held a bungalow and garden, building on a long family history of entrepreneurship.
  • (17) • From €130 a night, minimum stay two nights, nollur.is Brimnes Cabins, north Iceland Facebook Twitter Pinterest At the Brimnes Hotel estate, every oh-so-Nordic bungalow (sleeping four or seven) has a private veranda and outdoor hot tub facing lake Olafsfjardarvatn.
  • (18) Its two whitewashed, self-catering bungalows are just steps from the historic cobblestones but far enough away to give a sense of isolation while you lounge around in poolside in hammocks surrounded by manicured tropical gardens.
  • (19) My grandad used to walk me home from my countryside primary school, along the footpath that led to his council bungalow.
  • (20) This Anglo-Brazilian affair offers the best of both worlds: four rustic bungalows hidden away in rainforest, near a handful of easily accessed beaches.

Flat


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
  • (superl.) 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.
  • (superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
  • (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
  • (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
  • (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
  • (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
  • (superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
  • (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
  • (superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
  • (adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
  • (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
  • (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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Something broad and flat in form
  • (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  • (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  • (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
  • (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
  • (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
  • (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
  • (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
  • (n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
  • (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
  • (n.) A homaloid space or extension.
  • (v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
  • (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
  • (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
  • (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
  • (v. i.) To fall form the pitch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (3) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
  • (4) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
  • (5) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (6) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
  • (7) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (8) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (9) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (10) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
  • (11) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (12) We investigated the mechanism by which retinoic acid causes growth arrest and flat reversion of SSV-NRK, simian sarcoma virus-transformed normal rat kidney cells.
  • (13) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
  • (14) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
  • (15) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
  • (16) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
  • (17) The following relationships were found: Round nuclei have higher rates of DNA synthesis than flat ones.
  • (18) The individual micelles are relatively flat, ring-shaped structures, the center offering space for one of the two bulky sugar chains of the saponins.
  • (19) Microinfusion of the selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-(di-N-propylamino)tetralin (8-OHDPAT), into the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) produced a marked behavioural hypoactivity and flat body posture.
  • (20) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.