Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: flat, flat_tire, flatbed, flatcar

'flat'

[flat.n.01] as in: a level tract of land

Examples:
the salt flats of Utah

'flat'

[flat.n.02] as in: a shallow box in which seedlings are started

'flat'

[flat.n.03] as in: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

'flat'

[flatcar.n.01] as in: freight car without permanent sides or roof

'flat'

[flat.n.05] as in: a deflated pneumatic tire

'flat'

[flat.n.06] as in: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

'flat'

[apartment.n.01] as in: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

'flat'

[flat.s.01] as in: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

Examples:
a flat desk
acres of level farmland
a plane surface
skirts sewn with fine flat seams

'flat'

[flat.s.02] as in: having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

Examples:
flat computer monitors

'flat'

[categoric.s.01] as in: not modified or restricted by reservations

Examples:
a categorical denial
a flat refusal

'flat'

[flat.s.04] as in: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

Examples:
found himself lying flat on the floor

'flat'

[flat.a.05] as in: lacking contrast or shading between tones

'flat'

[flat.a.06] as in: (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone

Examples:
B flat

'flat'

[compressed.s.03] as in: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g.,

certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

'flat'

[bland.s.01] as in: lacking taste or flavor or tang

Examples:
a bland diet
insipid hospital food
flavorless supermarket tomatoes
vapid beer
vapid tea

'flat'

[bland.s.02] as in: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

Examples:
a bland little drama
a flat joke

'flat'

[flat.s.08] as in: having lost effervescence

Examples:
flat beer
a flat cola

'flat'

[flat.s.09] as in: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

Examples:
the owl's faint monotonous hooting

'flat'

[flat.s.10] as in: horizontally level

Examples:
a flat roof

'flat'

[two-dimensional.s.01] as in: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth

Examples:
a film with two-dimensional characters
a flat two-dimensional painting

'flat'

[flat.s.12] as in: not reflecting light; not glossy

Examples:
flat wall paint
a photograph with a matte finish

'flat'

[flat.s.13] as in: commercially inactive

Examples:
flat sales for the month
prices remained flat
a flat market

'flat'

[flat.r.01] as in: with flat sails

Examples:
sail flat against the wind

'flat'

[directly.r.04] as in: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly

Examples:
he didn't answer directly
told me straight out
came out flat for less work and more pay