flat

Etymology 1
From, a borrowing from (compare Norwegian and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , from ; akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

The noun is from, from the adjective.

The algebraic sense was coined by in, originally as.

Adjective

 * 1) Having no variations in height.
 * 2) In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
 * 3) Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
 * 4)  Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
 * 5) Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
 * 6) At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
 * 7)  Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
 * 8)  Without variations in pitch.
 * 9)  Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and  (not ).
 * 10)  Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
 * 11) * February 16, 1833,, Table Talk
 * A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
 * 1)  Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
 * 2)  Lowered by one semitone.
 * 3)  Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
 * 4) Absolute; downright; peremptory.
 * 5) * 1602, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, Malone Society Reprint, 1921, Act I, lines 324-326,
 * He is made like a tilting staffe; and lookes
 * For all the world like an ore-rosted pigge:
 * A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.
 * 1)  Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
 * 2)   With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
 * 3)  Lacking acidity without being sweet.
 * 4)  Unable to emit power; dead.
 * 5)  Without spin; spinless.
 * 6)  Sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
 * 7)  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".
 * 8)  Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
 * 9)  Flattening at the ends.
 * 10)  Exact.
 * 11)  Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences..
 * 12)  Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
 * 13)  Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
 * 1)  Lowered by one semitone.
 * 2)  Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
 * 3) Absolute; downright; peremptory.
 * 4) * 1602, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, Malone Society Reprint, 1921, Act I, lines 324-326,
 * He is made like a tilting staffe; and lookes
 * For all the world like an ore-rosted pigge:
 * A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.
 * 1)  Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
 * 2)   With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
 * 3)  Lacking acidity without being sweet.
 * 4)  Unable to emit power; dead.
 * 5)  Without spin; spinless.
 * 6)  Sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
 * 7)  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".
 * 8)  Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
 * 9)  Flattening at the ends.
 * 10)  Exact.
 * 11)  Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences..
 * 12)  Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
 * 13)  Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
 * 1)  Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
 * 2)  Flattening at the ends.
 * 3)  Exact.
 * 4)  Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences..
 * 5)  Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
 * 6)  Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
 * 1)  Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
 * 2)  Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:boring
 * d, punctured
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:noneffervescent
 * d, punctured
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:noneffervescent

Antonyms

 * ,, , rough , wrinkled

Translations

 * Afrikaans: plat
 * Albanian: rrafshtë
 * Arabic: مُسَطَّح
 * Egyptian Arabic: مسطح
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: সমান, চেপেটা
 * Asturian: llanu,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:, laun, ordeka
 * Belarusian: пло́скі, ро́ўны
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: веда
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏩᎾᏕᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 平
 * Eastern Min: 平
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, lapik
 * Evenki: наптама
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: plan, plac, vualîf
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: ბრტყელი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌹𐌱𐌽𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πλατύς, ὁμαλός, πεδιεινός
 * Hawaiian: papa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: flatur
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: latsu, tasa, lakkia
 * Ingush: воьда
 * Irish: cothrom, réidh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: жазық, жалпак, жайпақ
 * Khmer: រាបស្មើ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: plānus
 * Latvian: plakans, lēzens
 * Lithuanian: plokščias, lėkštas
 * Macedonian: рамен
 * Makasae: tetuku
 * Malay: datar
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tūpā, pātiki, parahe , paparahi , papatahi , papatairite, paparite, pararaha, kurapāpā
 * Marathi: सपाट, चपटे
 * Minangkabau:
 * Mingrelian: ლაპარტყია, ბირტყა, ლაფართია
 * Mirandese: praino
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: ditʼąh
 * Norman: pliat
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: efn
 * Old Javanese: rata
 * Old Portuguese: chão
 * Ottoman Turkish: دوز
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polabian: flötĕ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Romansch: plat, guliv, uliv, anguliv, planiv, plàn, guleiv, gualiv
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: pranu
 * Serbo-Croatian: раван,
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: plochý, rovný
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: płony
 * Spanish: ,
 * Svan: ტყჷფრი, ტყელ
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: patag
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tausug: datag
 * Telugu: బల్లపరుపు
 * Tetum: tetuk
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལེབ་ལེབ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: düz
 * Ukrainian:, рі́вний, поло́гий, пласки́й
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Venetian: guałivo, gałivo,, pian
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yakut: хаптаҕай
 * Yiddish: פֿלאַך


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Maori: kenu, parahe , pongare
 * Spanish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: monotòno
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: tangihē, orotaha
 * Norwegian: monoton
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, monotonă
 * Slovene: monoton
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שִׁטְחִי
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovene: nezanimivo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆసక్తి లేని


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: бемо́л
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 降
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: bemola
 * Estonian: -bemoll
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: -esz
 * Icelandic: lækkaður
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: бемол
 * Maori: taka
 * Norwegian: -es
 * Polish: bemolowy
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: maol
 * Slovene: bemol
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bimol


 * Estonian: liiga madal
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Maori: tangi hē
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Basque: zulatu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 漏氣的
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: tühi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מְנֻקָּר, מפונצ׳ר
 * Hungarian:, defektes
 * Icelandic: flatur
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, a terra,
 * Japanese: パンクする
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: издишана
 * Malay:
 * Maori: haukore
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: sflaczały, flakowaty
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: spuščena
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: punkterad
 * Telugu: అరిగిన
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian: desgionfà
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: väljähtynyt
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: flatur
 * Irish: rodta
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: odgazowany,, wygazowany
 * Portuguese: sem gás
 * Slovene: gorjenje
 * Spanish: sin gas
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Adverb

 * 1) So as to be flat.
 * 2) Bluntly.
 * 3)  Exactly, precisely.
 * In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
 * 1) Completely.
 * 2) Directly; flatly.
 * 3)  Without allowance for accrued interest.
 * The bonds are trading flat.
 * 1) Completely.
 * 2) Directly; flatly.
 * 3)  Without allowance for accrued interest.
 * The bonds are trading flat.
 * 1) Directly; flatly.
 * 2)  Without allowance for accrued interest.
 * The bonds are trading flat.
 * 1)  Without allowance for accrued interest.
 * The bonds are trading flat.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Latvian: plakani, lēzeni
 * Macedonian: рамно
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Telugu: మొద్దుబారిన


 * Bashkir: теүәл
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: jævnt
 * French:
 * German:
 * Macedonian: рамно
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: పెరగని


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: helt
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu:


 * German:

Noun



 * 1) An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
 * The hovercraft skimmed across the open flats.
 * the eastern end of the salt flat; mud flat, tidal flat, flood flat
 * 1)  Level ground in general.
 * I can run on the flat but not up hills.
 * The going will be easier once we're through these mountains and onto the flat.
 * 1)  Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
 * This horse will do better over the flat.
 * flat racing, the flat season
 * 1) * 2020, Brian Sheerin, Racing Post, "Gordon Elliott maps out summer Flat campaigns for talented jumpers" (article)
 * In light of Horse Racing Ireland's Covid-19 contingency plan announcement, that whenever racing resumes the Flat will be given priority, Elliott has decided to keep a number of talented jumpers on the go during the summer, with a view towards a dual-purpose campaign.
 * 1) * 2021 (retrieved), racing365.com, "Flat Racing Explained"
 * In British horse racing, the classics are a series of horse races run over the flat (i.e. without jumps).
 * 1)  the area in the centre of a racecourse.
 * 2)   A note played one chromatic 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. ♭♪).
 * The key of E♭ has three flats.
 * 1)  A flat tyre/flat tire.
 * 2)  A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
 * 3)  A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
 * 4)  A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
 * 5) The flat part of something:
 * 6)  The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
 * 7) The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
 * 8) A wide, shallow container or pallet.
 * 9)  A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
 * 10)  A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
 * 11)  A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
 * 12) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
 * 13)  A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
 * 14) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
 * 15) A flat sheet for use on a bed.
 * 16)  A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
 * 17) A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
 * 18)  A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
 * 19)  A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
 * 20)  Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
 * 21)  An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
 * 22)  A dull fellow; a simpleton.
 * 23)  A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
 * 24)  A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
 * 25)  A 24-case of beer.
 * 1) A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
 * 2)  A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
 * 3)  A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
 * 4)  Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
 * 5)  An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
 * 6)  A dull fellow; a simpleton.
 * 7)  A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
 * 8)  A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
 * 9)  A 24-case of beer.
 * 1)  A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
 * 2)  A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
 * 3)  A 24-case of beer.
 * 1)  A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
 * 2)  A 24-case of beer.
 * 1)  A 24-case of beer.
 * 1)  A 24-case of beer.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: flöt
 * Latvian: plakana virsma
 * Maori: haupapa, papatahi
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian: бемол
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 降號
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: bemol,
 * Estonian: bemoll
 * Finnish: alennettu nuotti
 * French:
 * German: erniedrigter Ton, Erniedrigungszeichen
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: lækkuð nóta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 내림표, 플랫
 * Latvian:
 * Maori: taka
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, снизилица
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch: lekke band, platte band
 * Finnish: puhjennut rengas, tyhjä rengas, rengasrikko
 * German: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Norman: tyeur bosté
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pneu murcho
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: pinchazo
 * Swedish: ,


 * Danish: flade
 * Finnish: matalakorkoiset (kengät)
 * German:, Freizeitschuhe,
 * Greek: χωρίς τακούνι
 * Icelandic: flatbotna skór
 * Italian: scarpe senza tacco,
 * Latvian: kurpes bez papēžiem
 * Polish: na płaskim obcasie
 * Russian: туфли-балетки,
 * Swedish: (sko)


 * Finnish: talttasivellin
 * German: Breitpinsel


 * Afrikaans: platkant
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Abflachung
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,


 * Esperanto:
 * Neapolitan: (2):

Verb

 * 1)  To make a flat call; to call without raising.
 * 2)  To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
 * 3)  To fall from the pitch.
 * 4)  To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
 * 5)  To make flat; to flatten; to level.
 * 6)  To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
 * 1)  To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
 * 1)  To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

Etymology 2
From 1795, alteration of, from , from , , from , from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬. More at, flat1.

Noun

 * 1)   An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.

Etymology 3
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To beat or strike; pound
 * 2)  To dash or throw
 * 3)  To dash, rush

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) flat,

Noun

 * 1) flat house

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) level, even, smooth

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
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Noun

 * , apartment

Noun

 * 1) saucer
 * 2) flat, apartment

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) flat
 * 2) spineless, being a doormat, abstaining from defending one's convictions
 * 1) spineless, being a doormat, abstaining from defending one's convictions