• a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
• scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
• a deFlated pneumatic tire
• a shallow box in which seedlings are started
• freight car without permanent sides or roof
• a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
• a level tract of land
• lacking variety in shading; "a Flat unshaded painting"
• not reflecting light; not glossy; "Flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
• (of a tire) completely or partially deFlated
• having no depth or thickness
• lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a Flat two-dimensional painting"
• having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a Flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"
• lacking contrast or shading between tones
• without pleats
• parallel to the ground; "a Flat roof"
• stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying Flat on the floor"
• not made with leavening; "most Flat breads are made from unleavened dough"
• lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B Flat"
• not increasing as the amount taxed increases
• not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a Flat refusal"
• having lost effervescence; "Flat beer"; "a Flat cola"
• lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a Flat joke"
• lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
• Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or Flatfishes)
• wholly or completely; "He is Flat broke"
• in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn''t answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out Flat for less work and more pay"
• at full length; "he fell Flat on his face"
• against a Flat surface; "he lay Flat on his back"
• below the proper pitch; "she sang Flat last night"
• with Flat sails; "sail Flat against the wind"

'Flat' in other languages