(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.) 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.
Flatmate
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Just five weeks later - following persistent noise complaints from all the neighbours, following a written complaint from the primary school whose playground backs on to the flat, following a police visit to break up a fight between him and his flatmate - he has been evicted.
(3) It was, ironically, where I felt most at home – all my friends, my boyfriend, my flatmates, were white.
(4) But to afford the rent, she had to find a flatmate.
(5) He said at the time that the experience left him feeling as if he had been little more than a flatmate to Sir Nigel in the eyes of the law.
(6) The water and gas had been shut off for days when Lessena M and his flatmates, a group of asylum seekers from Ivory Coast who have been living in Naples for more than a year, decided to stage a protest.
(7) Broad City adds extra empathy into the mix: Abby and Ilana may be rubbish employees, girlfriends and flatmates, but at least they care about each other, unlike the girls of Girls, all self-centred and only out for themselves.
(8) In April, a woman in Northern Ireland who took the pills and was reported to the police by her two flatmates was given a three-month suspended sentence by Belfast crown court.
(9) Sloane Crosley, 31, whose first collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake , became a New York Times bestseller has also just written her second book, How Did You Get This Number , in which she tackles a dizzying array of subjects from living with an anorexic flatmate to buying stolen upholstery as a means of getting over a heartbreak.
(10) I have been living with my flatmate for the past year.
(11) A flatmate lounges on a sofa and a coal-effect gas fire pretends to burn in the hearth.
(12) They started their own games business and, though one later dropped out, the other flatmate, Steve Jackson, became a lifelong friend and collaborator.
(13) "We (me and a flatmate) had to sign a year-long lease and, when 12 months was up, sign up again for another year.
(14) It would obviously be hard to do but the positive side I want to bring out is not revenge, it’s trying to prevent these cases from happening in the future.” Katie Watts: ‘I blocked it from my memory’ “When I was training to be a nurse in London, I was raped by one of my flatmates in student halls.
(15) It is quite normal, now, to find oneself lumbered with flatmates at the age of 54.
(16) Knox has repeatedly said she would like to meet the relatives of her former flatmate in order to explain herself and convince them of her innocence.
(17) 5 Don't act ashamed Tinder has already passed the social acceptability test: groups of friends debate faces in the pub, flatmates sit around Tindering together over the weekly group meal.
(18) The film shows that Fox's former flatmate, who was also best man at his wedding, met the president of Sri Lanka with Fox for a meeting in a London hotel last year, despite having no role in government.
(19) A suspended sentence for safe, self-induced abortion, where a woman’s privacy was so invaded by the police and by the state (not to mention her judgmental flatmates who dobbed her in) is an international disgrace.
(20) Berhe’s sister and flatmate, Seghen, claimed she had no idea where he was until he suddenly appeared handcuffed to Italian police officers in Rome on Wednesday.