(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.
Molle
Definition:
(a.) Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microscopically, the lesion was papillary and cystic in architecture, and arose from an adjacent apocrine gland of the eyelid margin (gland of Moll).
(2) It was concluded that Moll's gland cyst is composed of dilated duct of the Moll's gland and secretory segment; the proportion of each segment is variable but the portion showing ductal differentiation is usually predominant and typical secretory epithelium is not always seen.
(3) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
(4) The correct recognition of arthritic subtype (according to Moll and Wright classification) always resulted essentially in the choice of the therapy.
(5) Since the initial report of Beyers & Moll (1948), numerous cases of seizures and encephalopathy after pertussis immunization or DPT immunization have been reported.
(6) We studied three easily performed objective techniques for determining trunk flexibility (the common "fingertip-to-floor" test, the modified Schober and Moll tests, and the Loebl inclinometer method) and their interexaminer and intraexaminer reproducibility.
(7) DNA sequence analysis identified each cDNA encoded epitope including the carboxyl-terminal portions of cytokeratins 8 and 19 (as cataloged by Moll, R., Franke, W.W., and Schiller, D.L.
(8) In the semi-intact preparation, superfusion of AVT (10(-6) moll-1) over the abdominal ganglion decreased the amplitude of both the gill withdrawal reflex and the short-latency excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked in gill and siphon motor neurones by single action potentials elicited in sensory neurones.
(9) However, during the 1990s Granada and others continued to make acclaimed programmes such as Cracker, The Darling Buds of May and period dramas Oliver Twist and Moll Flanders.
(10) Goblet cells are plentiful in the mucosa of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva, and along the lid margin are the sweat glands of Moll.
(11) 8 and 18 of Moll's catalogue; SK 2-27, specific for polypeptides no.
(12) It was a cystic lesion, consisting of neoplastic cells of probable apocrine gland or Moll's gland origin.
(13) In the patient with a long-standing painful heloma molle between the fourth and fifth toes, a syndactylism combined with head resection of the fifth proximal phalanx may be considered the procedure of choice.
(14) Included are measurements of distances of the Ostium pharyngeum tubae auditivae to the Canalis palatinus major and the upper surface of the Palatum molle.
(15) Thus, these results indicate that subdermal injection of Keragen implant can provide significant reduction in the pain and keratoses associated with heloma durum and heloma molle.
(16) The clinical diagnoses were either a conjunctival inclusion cyst or an adnexal cyst, possibly of the gland of Moll.
(17) The treatment was evaluated by a visual analogue scale, range of spinal flexion ad modum Wright & Moll and of the patients' self-assessments.
(18) This year, Cotillard takes a belt-and-braces approach: she's an Ellis Island burlesque dancer in James Gray's 1920s-set The Immigrant , as well as a moll in 70s Brooklyn in Blood Ties (scripted by Gray, shot by her husband, Guillaume Canet).
(19) Metoprolol (a beta 1-adrenoreceptor-selective antagonist) at 3 x 10(-8)-3 x 10(-7) moll-1 and ICI 118,551 (a potent beta 2-adrenoreceptor-selective antagonist) at 10(-7)-10(-6) moll-1 had no effect on maximum responses to isoprenaline and caused parallel rightward shifts of the isoprenaline response curves.
(20) Description of a 70-year-old patient with a recurrent pleomorphic adenoma of the lower eyelid which originated form an adenoma of Moll's gland.