flat
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *flataz
Old Norse flatrbor.
Middle English flat
English flat
From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.
Inflected forms:
form: flatter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: flattest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flatt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: flatte
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more flat
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most flat
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: flats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having no variations in height.
pos: adj
examples: The land around here is flat.
gloss: Having no variations in height.
pos: adj
examples: a flat roof
gloss: Having no variations in height.
pos: adj
examples: The surface of the mirror must be completely flat.
The carpet isn't properly flat in that corner.
She has quite a flat face.
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
This early slowdown is one piece of a broader evolutionary trend known as gracilization, the tendency for modern humans to become more delicate in form. Our bones are thinner, our muscles smaller, and our faces flatter than those of earlier hominins.
gloss: Having no variations in height.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Near-synonym: flat-chested
That girl is completely flat on both sides.
gloss: Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
pos: adj
examples: The exchange rate has been flat for several weeks.
gloss: Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
pos: adj
examples: Sales have been flat all year, and we've barely broken even.
gloss: Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a flat fee
flat rates
a flat fare on public transport
gloss: Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
pos: adj
examples: He delivered the speech in a flat tone.
gloss: Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
pos: adj
examples: The walls were painted a flat gray.
gloss: Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The party was a bit flat.
The market is flat today as most traders are on holiday.
The dialogue in your screenplay is flat — you need to make it more exciting.
February 16, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world.
gloss: Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
pos: adj
tags: especially
figuratively
examples: The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.
gloss: Lowered by one semitone.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
pos: adj
examples: Your A string is flat.
gloss: Absolute; downright; peremptory.
pos: adj
examples: His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results.
I'm not going to the party and that's flat.
Wag[ner]. Vilaine, call me Maiſter Wagner, and let thy left eye be diametarily fixt vpon my right heele, with quaſi veſtigias nostras inſistere [as if to follow in our footsteps]. / Clo[wn]: God forgiue me, he ſpeakes Dutch fuſtian: / well, Ile folow him, Ile ſerue him, thats flat.
SECOND WATCH. Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.
DOGBERRY. Flat burglary as ever was committed
A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.
gloss: Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
pos: adj
gloss: With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking acidity without being sweet.
pos: adj
gloss: Unable to emit power; dead.
pos: adj
gloss: Without spin; spinless.
pos: adj
gloss: Sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
pos: adj
examples: Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.
gloss: Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
pos: adj
gloss: Flattening at the ends.
pos: adj
gloss: Exact.
pos: adj
examples: He finished the race in a flat four minutes.
gloss: Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
pos: adj
gloss: Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
pos: adj
gloss: Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
pos: adj
gloss: Having little froth and little milk.
pos: adj
gloss: Foolish; simple-minded.
pos: adj
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: We either burns the old brooms, or, if we can, we sells ’em for a ha’penny to some other boy, if he’s flat enough to buy ’em.
gloss: So as to be flat.
pos: adv
examples: Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.
gloss: Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
pos: adv
examples: I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat.
"You'll understand this flat, I won't be fooled about by you any longer."
gloss: Exactly, precisely.
pos: adv
examples: In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat.
I play doctor for five minutes flat
Before I cut my heart open and let the air out
gloss: Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
pos: adv
examples: He can run a mile in four minutes flat.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat / Made the bus in seconds flat
gloss: Without parole.
pos: adv
examples: The recent case in Dallas where two gay males were killed by an 18 yr old straight kid is a perfect example of what gays in this state face. The kid got 30 yrs (he'll do 3 or 4 yrs and be paroled) yet I must do 12 years flat for a robbery in which no one was hurt.
gloss: Completely.
pos: adv
examples: I am flat broke this month.
gloss: Directly; flatly.
pos: adv
examples: Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.
gloss: Without allowance for accrued interest.
pos: adv
tags: slang
examples: The bonds are trading flat.
gloss: To make a flat call; to call without raising.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fall from the pitch.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
gloss: To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make flat; to flatten; to level.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: And thus thoſe Forts vvhich vvere erected to defend the Crovvne, firſt offended the King, ſome fevv vvhereof as he recouered, he flatted to the ground, and vviſhed the other no higher vvalls; ſtill ſvvearing by Gods Birth (his vſuall Oath) hee vvould not ſlightly bee vnſeated of his Crovvne, and vvondring vvhat ſhould mooue them, vvho had ſo readilie aduanced him, ſo ſpeedily to vnſtate him.
The pods, which seldom contain less than thirty nuts of the size of a flatted olive, grow upon the stem and principal branches.
gloss: To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
Synonyms: even
planar
plane
smooth
uniform
boring
dull
uninteresting
unfizzy
tops
Antonyms: bumpy
cratered
hilly
rough
wrinkled
sharp
Derived words: absolutely flat
A-flat
aflat
Allans Flat
and that's flat
Apple Tree Flat
Appletree Flat
Barker Creek Flat
B-flat
Biggs Flat
Blackmans Flat
Burkes Flat
Busbys Flat
Caffreys Flat
C-flat
Chambers Flat
Chapel Flat
Clover Flat
Commissioners Flat
Cow Flat
Cundle Flat
Dairy Flat
D-flat
diaper flat
Doctors Flat
Dollys Flat
E-flat
Emu Flat
faithfully flat
fall flat
fall flat on one's face
Farrell Flat
F-flat
Fiery Flat
flat adverb
flat affect
flat as a bedsheet
flat as a pancake
flat as my hat
flat as your hat
flatback
flat-backed millipede
flatbacker
flat back four
flat bean
flatbed
flatbill
flat-blade screwdriver
flatboat
flat-bottom
flat-bottomed
flatbottomed
flat bottomed
flatbread
flat bread
flat bug
Flatbush
flat cake
flat candlestick
flat cap
flatcar
flat-chested
flatchested
flat-coated retriever
flat cracker
flat crossing
flat design
flat diaper
flat dog
flat-earth
flat-earther
flat earthery
flat-earthism
flat-faced longhorn
flat-faced seahorse
flat fare
flat-felled seam
flat-fell seam
flatfield
flat file
flatfish
flat five
flat-footed
flatfooted
flatfoot
flat feet
flatform
flathead
Flathead
flat-headed cat
flat-headed
flatheaded
flat-heeled
flatification
flatiron
flat iron
flat iron steak
flat is justice
flat junction
flatland
flatlay
flatleaf
flatline
flatling
flatlings
flat lizard
flat lock
flatlock
flatly
flatmount
flat-mouthed
flat nappy
flatness
flatnose
flat on one's back
flat oval
flatpack
flat pack
flatpacked
flat panel
flat paneling
flat panelling
flat peach
flatpick
flatpicking
flatplan
flat race
flat rail
flat rate
flat real mode
flat ride
Flat Rock
Flatrock
flatrod
flat rope
flat round
flatsawn
flatscape
flat scissors
flatscreen
flatsedge
flat silver
flat space
flat spin
flat spot
flat stick
flat-tail sea snake
flat tape
flat taping
flattard
flat tax
flat rate tax
flatten
flat text
flattie
flat time
flattish
flattop
flat-topped
Flat Tops
flat-track bully
flat twist
flatty
flat tyre
flat tire
flat wagon
flatware
flatwater
flat water
flatweave
flatweed
flat white
flatwing
flatwise
flatwork
flatworm
flat-wound
flatwoven
flat wrack
fold flat
Gearys Flat
German Flat
G-flat
Greigs Flat
Gum Flat
Hay Flat
Hermitage Flat
Holts Flat
Image Flat
in a flat spin
Jackass Flat
Jacksons Flat
Jacky Bulbin Flat
Kains Flat
Kangaroo Flat
Karaak Flat
knock someone flat
Knorrit Flat
layflat
like a cow on a flat rock
like a cow pissing on a flat rock
lined flat bark beetle
Long Flat
lying flat
Mahomets Flats
Mailors Flat
Matta Flat
Mayers Flat
McLaren Flat
Meadow Flat
Middle Flat
Milkers Flat
Missen Flat
Mitchells Flat
Moonan Flat
Moonlight Flat
Morphetts Flat
Myers Flat
nappy flat
Neales Flat
nonflat
Oak Flats
Ob Flat
Old Teal Flat
Osbornes Flat
Oxley Flats
Paddys Flat
Pagans Flat
Pages Flat
Pellaring Flat
Polo Flat
Porky Flat
Rainbow Flat
Reedy Flat
Reids Flat
Rock Flat
Rowland Flat
run-flat
Sallys Flat
Sampson Flat
Sandy Flat
Scotts Flat
semiflat
Shannons Flat
Shays Flat
Sheaoak Flat
Shepherds Flat
Skillion Flat
Skinners Flat
snow flat
Spring Flat
Staghorn Flat
Stanley Flat
Steeple Flat
superflat
Swede Flat
Taylors Flat
Teal Flat
that's flat
time is a flat circle
Tortilla Flats
Triangle Flat
Turners Flat
Two Mile Flat
ultraflat
Walker Flat
Wall Falt
Wattle Flat
Western Flat
Wherrol Flat
Whites Flat
Wigley Flat
Woolshed Flat
Wylies Flat
Yallunda Flat
Captains Flat
flat out
flat chat
flat signed
flat strap
four flat
in nothing flat
flat down
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: plat
lang: Albanian
word: rrafshtë
lang: Arabic
word: مُسَطَّح
roman: musaṭṭaḥ
lang: Arabic
word: مسطح
roman: meṣaṭṭaḥ
lang: Armenian
word: հարթ
roman: hartʻ
lang: Armenian
word: տափակ
roman: tapʻak
lang: Assamese
word: সমান
roman: xman
lang: Assamese
word: চেপেটা
roman: sepeta
lang: Asturian
word: llanu
lang: Asturian
word: planu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: düz
lang: Basque
word: lau
lang: Basque
word: laun
lang: Basque
word: ordeka
lang: Belarusian
word: пло́скі
roman: plóski
lang: Belarusian
word: ро́ўны
roman: równy
lang: Bengali
word: সমতল
roman: śomotol
lang: Central Bikol
word: lapnad
lang: Bulgarian
word: пло́сък
roman: plósǎk
lang: Bulgarian
word: ра́вен
roman: ráven
lang: Catalan
word: pla
lang: Chechen
word: веда
roman: veda
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏩᎾᏕᏍᎩ
roman: uwanadesgi
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 平
roman: ping⁴
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 平
roman: bang
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 平
roman: píng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 平坦
roman: píngtǎn
lang: Czech
word: plochý
lang: Czech
word: rovný
lang: Danish
word: flad
lang: Dutch
word: vlak
lang: Dutch
word: plat
lang: Esperanto
word: plata
lang: Esperanto
word: ebena
lang: Estonian
word: lame
lang: Estonian
word: lapik
lang: Evenki
word: наптама
roman: naptama
lang: Finnish
word: litteä
lang: Finnish
word: laakea
lang: Finnish
word: tasainen
lang: French
word: plat
lang: Friulian
word: plan
lang: Friulian
word: plac
lang: Friulian
word: vualîf
lang: Galician
word: plano
lang: Galician
word: chairo
lang: Galician
word: chan
lang: Georgian
word: ბრტყელი
roman: brṭq̇eli
lang: German
word: flach
lang: German
word: eben
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌹𐌱𐌽𐍃
roman: ibns
lang: Greek
word: επίπεδος
roman: epípedos
lang: Greek
word: ισόπεδος
roman: isópedos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πλατύς
roman: platús
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὁμαλός
roman: homalós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πεδιεινός
roman: pedieinós
lang: Hawaiian
word: papa
lang: Hebrew
word: שָׁטוּחַ
roman: shatúakh
lang: Hindi
word: समतल
roman: samtal
lang: Hungarian
word: lapos
lang: Icelandic
word: flatur
lang: Ido
word: plata
lang: Indonesian
word: datar
lang: Indonesian
word: gepeng
lang: Indonesian
word: rata
lang: Ingrian
word: latsu
lang: Ingrian
word: tasa
lang: Ingrian
word: lakkia
lang: Ingush
word: воьда
roman: vöda
lang: Irish
word: cothrom
lang: Irish
word: réidh
lang: Italian
word: piano
lang: Italian
word: piatto
lang: Japanese
word: 平ら
roman: taira
lang: Japanese
word: 平坦
roman: heitan
lang: Japanese
word: 扁平
roman: hempei
lang: Javanese
word: rata
lang: Old Javanese
word: rata
lang: Kazakh
word: жазық
roman: jazyq
lang: Kazakh
word: жалпак
roman: jalpak
lang: Kazakh
word: жайпақ
roman: jaipaq
lang: Khmer
word: រាបស្មើ
roman: riep smaǝ
lang: Khmer
word: រាបទាប
roman: riep tiep
lang: Korean
word: 판판하다
roman: panpanhada
lang: Korean
word: 평평(平平)하다
roman: pyeongpyeonghada
lang: Central Kurdish
word: تات
roman: tat
lang: Central Kurdish
word: تەخت
roman: text
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жалпак
roman: jalpak
lang: Lao
word: ສເມີ
roman: sa mœ̄
lang: Lao
word: ສເມີພຽງ
roman: sa mœ̄ phīang
lang: Lao
word: ພຽງ
roman: phīang
lang: Latin
word: plānus
lang: Latvian
word: plakans
lang: Latvian
word: lēzens
lang: Lingala
word: patatalu
lang: Lithuanian
word: plokščias
lang: Lithuanian
word: lėkštas
lang: Macedonian
word: рамен
roman: ramen
lang: Makasae
word: tetuku
lang: Malay
word: datar
lang: Māori
word: tūpā
lang: Māori
word: pātiki
lang: Māori
word: parahe
lang: Māori
word: paparahi
lang: Māori
word: papatahi
lang: Māori
word: papatairite
lang: Māori
word: paparite
lang: Māori
word: pararaha
lang: Māori
word: kurapāpā
lang: Marathi
word: सपाट
roman: sapāṭ
lang: Marathi
word: चपटे
roman: ċapṭe
lang: Minangkabau
word: data
lang: Mingrelian
word: ლაპარტყია
roman: laṗarṭq̇ia
lang: Mingrelian
word: ბირტყა
roman: birṭq̇a
lang: Mingrelian
word: ლაფართია
roman: lapartia
lang: Mirandese
word: praino
lang: Navajo
word: ditʼąh
lang: Norman
word: pliat
lang: Norwegian
word: flat
lang: Old English
word: efn
lang: Old Galician-Portuguese
word: chão
lang: Persian
word: صاف
roman: sâf
lang: Persian
word: مسطح
roman: mosattah
lang: Persian
word: هموار
roman: hamvâr
lang: Polabian
word: flötĕ
lang: Polish
word: płaski
lang: Polish
word: równy
lang: Portuguese
word: plano
lang: Portuguese
word: chato
lang: Romanian
word: plan
lang: Romanian
word: șes
lang: Romanian
word: neted
lang: Romanian
word: plat
lang: Romansh
word: plat
lang: Romansh
word: guliv
lang: Romansh
word: uliv
lang: Romansh
word: anguliv
lang: Romansh
word: planiv
lang: Romansh
word: plàn
lang: Romansh
word: guleiv
lang: Romansh
word: gualiv
lang: Russian
word: пло́ский
roman: plóskij
lang: Russian
word: ро́вный
roman: róvnyj
lang: Russian
word: поло́гий
roman: pológij
lang: Sardinian
word: pranu
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: раван
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ravan
lang: Slovak
word: plochý
lang: Slovak
word: rovný
lang: Slovene
word: raven
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: płony
lang: Spanish
word: llano
lang: Spanish
word: plano
lang: Svan
word: ტყჷფრი
roman: ṭq̇əpri
lang: Svan
word: ტყელ
roman: ṭq̇el
lang: Swedish
word: flat
lang: Swedish
word: plan
lang: Swedish
word: platt
lang: Tagalog
word: patag
lang: Tajik
word: мусаттаҳ
roman: musattah
lang: Tamil
word: தட்டை
roman: taṭṭai
lang: Tamil
word: சம
roman: cama
lang: Tausug
word: datag
lang: Telugu
word: బల్లపరుపు
roman: ballaparupu
lang: Tetum
word: tetuk
lang: Thai
word: เรียบ
roman: rîiap
lang: Tibetan
word: ལེབ་ལེབ
roman: leb leb
lang: Turkish
word: düz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دوز
roman: düz
lang: Turkmen
word: düz
lang: Ukrainian
word: пло́ский
roman: plóskyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: рі́вний
roman: rívnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: поло́гий
roman: polóhyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: пласки́й
roman: plaskýj
lang: Uzbek
word: tekis
lang: Uzbek
word: silliq
lang: Uzbek
word: sidirgʻa
lang: Venetan
word: guałivo
lang: Venetan
word: gałivo
lang: Venetan
word: piat
lang: Venetan
word: pian
lang: Vietnamese
word: bằng
lang: Vietnamese
word: phẳng
lang: Welsh
word: gwastad
lang: Woiwurrung
word: woork
lang: Yakut
word: хаптаҕай
roman: qaptağay
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿלאַך
roman: flakh
lang: Catalan
word: xato
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 平
roman: píng
lang: Finnish
word: litteä
lang: German
word: flach
lang: German
word: platt
lang: Māori
word: kenu
lang: Māori
word: parahe
lang: Māori
word: pongare
lang: Spanish
word: chato
lang: Bulgarian
word: безинтересен
roman: bezinteresen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 平淡
roman: píngdàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 單調 /单调
roman: dāndiào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 扁平
roman: biǎnpíng
lang: Finnish
word: tylsä
lang: Finnish
word: lattea
lang: French
word: ennuyeux
lang: French
word: plate
lang: German
word: flau
lang: German
word: flach
lang: Greek
word: ανούσιος
roman: anoúsios
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁטְחִי
roman: shitkhí
lang: Indonesian
word: datar
lang: Italian
word: piatto
lang: Norwegian
word: dødt
lang: Polish
word: nijaki
lang: Polish
word: bezbarwny
lang: Portuguese
word: monótono
lang: Romanian
word: plat
lang: Slovene
word: nezanimivo
lang: Spanish
word: soso
lang: Swedish
word: avslagen
lang: Tamil
word: சலிப்பூட்டும்
roman: calippūṭṭum
lang: Telugu
word: ఆసక్తి లేని
roman: āsakti lēni
lang: Māori
word: mōwai
lang: Spanish
word: espichar