(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.
Plat
Definition:
(v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
(n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
(n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
(v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
(n.) Plain; flat; level.
(adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.
(adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
(n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.
(n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.
Example Sentences:
(1) To understand the mechanism of hemorrhage, coagulation and fibrinolysis in epidemic hemorrhagic fever (EHF), thrombin time (TT), prothrombin time (PT), fibrinogen (FIG), the platelet count (PLAT), plasminogen (PLG), antithrombin-III (AT-III), fibrin-fibrinogen degraded products (FDP) and platelet functions of aggregation and release were studied dynamically with advanced methods in 134 EHF patients.
(2) Another new spot, Victor (11 rue Victor Massé), offers a good deal for lunch, with a tasty €12 plat du jour that includes dishes such as tender veal sautéed with baby leeks and hazelnuts, and crisp rocket salad and roasted new potatoes.
(3) Four other loci mapping to the human chromosome 8 short arm have been mapped to mouse chromosome 8; two of these (PLAT, GSR) lie proximal to LHRH, and two (LPL, DEF1) lie distal to LHRH.
(4) Here we describe promoter ligation and transcript sequencing (PLATS), a direct method for rapidly obtaining novel sequences that utilizes generic primers and only requires knowledge of the sequence on one side of a region.
(5) I'm talking with a local called Brigitte in Le Plat à Oreilles, a popular husband-and-wife-run restaurant in the city centre that serves traditional country food.
(6) These cells have a number of altered phenotypic characteristics: a) morphology; b) growth behavior and adherence to culture substrate (they required 3 h for 90% attachment and only presented a flattened morphology 40 h after platting); and c) collagen metabolism.
(7) The markers, their maximum lod scores, and recombination distances were ANK1 (ankyrin)--2.0 at 16%; D8S5 (TL11)--5.3 at 17%; D8S87 [a(CA)n repeat]--7.2 at 14%; LPL (lipoprotein lipase)--1.5 at 26%; and PLAT (plasminigen activator, tissue)--10.6 at 7%.
(8) A total of 215 subjects comprising 95 Chinese, 66 Malays and 54 Indians were investigated for restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the tissue-type plasminogen activator (PLAT) gene at an EcoRI site using the probe ptPA-4352.
(9) Double reciprocal plats indicate a competitive inhibition for alpha-ketoglutarate-glutamate by folic acid and methotrexate and a complex or mixed type for NAD-NADH site.
(10) Cyproheptadine-HCl raised the pain thresholds during hot plat test and writhing test in mice and tail flick test in rats, strengthened the hypnotic action by subthreshold dosage of sodium pentobarbital and chloral hydrate.
(11) Café Branly, plat du jour €17, +33 01 47 53 68 01, quaibranly.fr , open Tues, Wed, Sun 9.30am-6pm, Thurs, Fri, Sat 9.30am-8pm.
(12) Total calories and amino acid nitrogen (N) administered were not different in the two groups (t-test) and q 8 h (347 study periods) amino acid clearances, urinary urea nitrogen excretion, muscle proteolysis from 3-methyl-histidine (3-MH) excretion, and standard indices of sepsis severity and hepatic function were measured, as well as platelets (PLAT), leucocytes (WBC), albumin (ALB), and six acute-phase proteins: C-reactive protein (CRP), alpha-1-antitrypsin (A1TRIP), fibrinogen (FIBRIN), alpha-2-macroglobulin (AMACRO), ceruloplasmin (CERUL), and transferrin (TRANS).
(13) The possible amplifications of five sequences, MOS (8q1), LHRH (8p21.1), POLB (8p11.2), PLAT (8p12), and D8Z2 (8c) were investigated in three tumors with HSR on the short arm of chromosome 8.
(14) Inside there is the health food self-service Le Smack, where soups and salads cost €4-€6, while the funky Tokyo Eat (plat du jour €13) is a striking industrial-style diner with psychedelic orange lamps, bar, and open kitchen.
(15) The examination showed that such special treatment would be required only for the target (main material: platinum) and the Platness-filter (chief constituent: lead) of the decommissioned electron accelerator.
(16) Based on linkage data from the CEPH (Paris) reference families and physical mapping information from a somatic cell hybrid panel of chromosome 8 fragments, the most likely order for four of these five loci and the diseases locus is 8pter-LPL-D8S5-D8S87-PLAT-RP1.
(17) The plat castable ceramic crown was made with investment material prepared in our college with our own casting technique by a Chinese-made casting machine.
(18) However, in four patients who developed alveolitis sicca (dry socket), a significant rise of activity on all the fibrin plats was seen (P less than 0.01) when compared with the variations measured in patients with normal healing.
(19) Platelet (PLAT), and neutrophil (WBC) counts were also done and plasma elastase was measured.
(20) Using PLATS, sequence has been obtained from a 1.1-kb segment in Achlya ambisexualis, which cross-hybridizes to the DNA-binding region of the chicken and Xenopus estrogen receptors.