flat
/flæt/
An area of level ground.
A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
A flat tyre/tire.
(in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
(in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
The flat part of something:
A wide, shallow container or pallet.
a flat of strawberries
(mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
A flat sheet for use on a bed.
A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
A dull fellow; a simpleton.
(technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.
Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.