Definition: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
Main entry: flat
Definition: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
Definition: a deflated pneumatic tire
Main entry: flat
Definition: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
Main entry: flat, flatbed, flatcar
Definition: freight car without permanent sides or roof
Main entry: flat
Definition: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
Main entry: flat
Definition: a level tract of land
Usage: the salt flats of Utah
Main entry: flat
Definition: commercially inactive
Usage: flat sales for the month; prices remained flat; a flat market
Main entry: flat, matt, matte, matted, mat
Definition: not reflecting light; not glossy
Usage: flat wall paint; a photograph with a matte finish
Main entry: flat
Definition: having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
Usage: flat computer monitors
Main entry: two-dimensional, flat, 2-dimensional
Definition: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
Usage: a film with two-dimensional characters; a flat two-dimensional painting
Main entry: flat, plane, level
Definition: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
Usage: a flat desk; acres of level farmland; a plane surface; skirts sewn with fine flat seams
Main entry: flat
Definition: lacking contrast or shading between tones
Main entry: flat
Definition: horizontally level
Usage: a flat roof
Definition: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
Usage: found himself lying flat on the floor
Main entry: monotone, monotonic, monotonous, flat
Definition: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Usage: the owl's faint monotonous hooting
Main entry: flat
Definition: (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
Usage: B flat
Main entry: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional
Definition: not modified or restricted by reservations
Usage: a categorical denial; a flat refusal
Main entry: flat
Definition: having lost effervescence
Usage: flat beer; a flat cola
Definition: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
Usage: a bland little drama; a flat joke
Main entry: flat, flavorless, flavourless, bland, insipid, vapid, savorless, savourless
Definition: lacking taste or flavor or tang
Usage: a bland diet; insipid hospital food; flavorless supermarket tomatoes; vapid beer; vapid tea
Main entry: flat, compressed
Definition: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Main entry: flat, directly, straight
Definition: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
Usage: he didn't answer directly; told me straight out; came out flat for less work and more pay
Main entry: flat
Definition: with flat sails
Usage: sail flat against the wind