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flats definition and meaning

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. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
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.

Crossword clues for flats

- Apartment
- Apartment or unit
- Dull
- Having a level surface
- Horizontal
- Insipid
- Level
- Punctured car tyre
- Skint, ... broke
- Studio apartment
- Apartments
- Low-lying areas


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