Dictionary entry details
• FLAT (noun)
Meaning:
A level tract of land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Context example:
the salt flats of Utah
Hypernyms ("flat" is a kind of...):
champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flat"):
salt flat; salt plain (a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water)
Meaning:
A shallow box in which seedlings are started
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("flat" is a kind of...):
box (a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid)
Meaning:
A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("flat" is a kind of...):
musical notation (a notation used by musicians)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flat"):
double flat (a musical notation of two flats in front of a note indicating that it is to be lowered by two semitones)
Meaning:
Freight car without permanent sides or roof
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
flatcar; flatbed; flat
Hypernyms ("flat" is a kind of...):
freight car (a railway car that carries freight)
Meaning:
A deflated pneumatic tire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
flat tire; flat
Hypernyms ("flat" is a kind of...):
pneumatic tire; pneumatic tyre (a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc)
Meaning:
Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("flat" is a kind of...):
scene; scenery (the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flat"):
coulisse; wing flat (a flat situated in the wings)
teaser; tormenter; tormentor (a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings)
Holonyms ("flat" is a part of...):
mise en scene; setting; stage setting (arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted)
Meaning:
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
apartment; flat
Hypernyms ("flat" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
Meronyms (parts of "flat"):
kitchenette (small kitchen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flat"):
railroad flat (an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them)
studio; studio apartment (an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen)
walk-up; walk-up apartment (an apartment in a building without an elevator)
penthouse (an apartment located on the top floors of a building)
maisonette; maisonnette (a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside)
flatlet (a tiny flat)
efficiency apartment (a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom)
duplex; duplex apartment (an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase)
cold-water flat (an apartment without modern conveniences)
bedsit; bedsitter; bedsitting room (a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing))
rooms; suite (apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel))
Holonyms ("flat" is a part of...):
apartment building; apartment house (a building that is divided into apartments)
• FLAT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
Synonyms:
flat; level; plane
Context examples:
a flat desk / acres of level farmland / a plane surface / skirts sewn with fine flat seams
Similar:
even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))
Meaning:
Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
Context example:
flat computer monitors
Similar:
planar; two-dimensional (involving two dimensions)
Meaning:
Not modified or restricted by reservations
Synonyms:
categoric; categorical; unconditional; flat
Context examples:
a categorical denial / a flat refusal
Similar:
unqualified (not limited or restricted)
Meaning:
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
Synonyms:
prostrate; flat
Context example:
found himself lying flat on the floor
Similar:
unerect (not upright in position or posture)
Meaning:
Lacking contrast or shading between tones
Similar:
underdeveloped ((of a photograph) lacking in contrast because it was left in the developer for less than the required time)
Domain category:
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
Antonym:
contrasty (having sharp differences between black and white)
Meaning:
Lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
Context example:
B flat
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Antonym:
natural ((of a key) containing no sharps or flats; (of a note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone)
sharp (raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone)
Meaning:
Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Synonyms:
compressed; flat
Similar:
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Meaning:
Lacking taste or flavor or tang
Synonyms:
bland; vapid; savourless; savorless; insipid; flavourless; flavorless; flat
Context examples:
a bland diet / insipid hospital food / flavorless supermarket tomatoes / vapid beer / vapid tea
Similar:
tasteless (lacking flavor)
Meaning:
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
Synonyms:
bland; flat
Context examples:
a bland little drama / a flat joke
Similar:
unexciting; unstimulating (not stimulating)
Meaning:
Having lost effervescence
Context examples:
flat beer / a flat cola
Similar:
noneffervescent (not effervescent)
Meaning:
(of taxes) not increasing as the amount taxed increases
Synonyms:
fixed; flat
Similar:
regressive ((of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases)
Meaning:
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Synonyms:
monotone; monotonic; monotonous; flat
Context example:
the owl's faint monotonous hooting
Similar:
unmodulated (characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume)
Meaning:
Horizontally level
Context example:
a flat roof
Similar:
horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)
Meaning:
Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
Synonyms:
2-dimensional; two-dimensional; flat
Context examples:
a film with two-dimensional characters / a flat two-dimensional painting
Similar:
multidimensional (having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects)
Meaning:
(of a tire) completely or partially deflated
Similar:
deflated (collapsed through the release of gas or air)
Meaning:
Not reflecting light; not glossy
Synonyms:
matte; matt; mat; matted; flat
Context examples:
flat wall paint / a photograph with a matte finish
Similar:
dull (emitting or reflecting very little light)
Meaning:
Commercially inactive
Context examples:
flat sales for the month / prices remained flat / a flat market
Similar:
inactive (not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly)
• FLAT (adverb)
Meaning:
With flat sails
Context example:
sail flat against the wind
Meaning:
In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
Synonyms:
flat; straight; directly
Context examples:
he didn't answer directly / told me straight out / came out flat for less work and more pay
