Flat

The land around here is flat.

a flat roof

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. […].

Near-synonym: flat-chested

That girl is completely flat on both sides.

The exchange rate has been flat for several weeks.

Sales have been flat all year, and we've barely broken even.

a flat fare on public transport

He delivered the speech in a flat tone.

The walls were painted a flat gray.

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.

The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.

Your A string is flat.

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.

Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.

He finished the race in a flat four minutes.

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.

Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.

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."

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

He can run a mile in four minutes flat.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat / Made the bus in seconds flat

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.

I am flat broke this month.

Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.

The bonds are trading flat.

The hovercraft skimmed across the open flats.

the eastern end of the salt flat; mud flat, tidal flat, flood flat

Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.

My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

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.

"Indeed it's troubling you too much, Sir!" the maid exclaimed. "She can walk very well on the flat."

This horse will do better over the flat.

flat racing, the flat season

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.

2021 (retrieved), racing365.com, "Flat Racing Explained" https://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).

As forecast, Joe suspected nothing as he pottered round the flat in the sunshine, absorbed in the task of picking winners.

The key of E♭ has three flats.

The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent.

She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.

The outboard bales in each tier should be placed on their edges so that their flats will be presented to the sweat battens. This precaution is necessary to lessen the damage in case of chafage. If the bales chafe or become wet on their flats, only one or two layers will be damaged.

a flat of strawberries

Waiter: Would you like sparkling or flat? Guest: Flat, thank you.

For example, when trailers containing new automobiles were first piggybacked two areas of potential damage became evident: (1) diesel locomotive exhaust left a film of oil on the new autos; and (2) auto windshields could be scarred or cracked by the metal-tipped "tell-tales" which warn men atop trains of oncoming bridges or tunnels. Accordingly, automobiles aboard piggyback flats are usually coupled into the train 15 or more cars behind the locomotive; and telltales have been raised.

The tender roared along vibrating vigorously; braking had resulted in "flats" on most of its tyres.

You might think that Americans buy roughly the same number of fitted sheets as flats. Or, considering the market for electric blankets, duvets, and other covers, that consumers buy even more bottom sheets, simply forgoing the tops.

This same publisher notes pricing is a crucial factor in the mass market field of $1, $1.95 and $2.95 "flats."

Among the many US museums hosting flats, we may mention the Toy Soldier Museum in the Pocono Mountains, supervised by the historian, collector and dealer J. Hillestad.

[…] if you cannot make a speech, Because you are a flat, Go very quietly and drop A button in the hat!

"He fancies he can play at billiards," said he. "I won two hundred of him at the Cocoa-Tree. HE play, the young flat! […]"

“But,” said I, “you said the other day, that you liked the fair thing.” “That was by way of gammon,” said the landlord; “just, do you see, as a Parliament cove might say speechifying from a barrel to a set of flats, whom he means to sell. Come, what do you think of the plan?”

"She can indeed walk very well on the flat," I said. "And I think I was the Flat."

"When sampling the aperture of a telescope, using auto-collimating flats (ACFs) is more economical"

He would slip in his six-ace flats, shaved dice that were made to bring up sevens. He'd throw them just long enough to get well, and then replace them with legitimate cubes.

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.

Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.

The excellence of French flats is so well known in America, that the owner will often refer to his property as "first class French flats."

A kiss may be grand but it won’t pay the rental on your humble flat or help you at the automat.

[NICELY]When you meet a gent paying all kinds of rent for a flat that could flatten the Taj Mahal. [BOTH]Call it sad, call it funny but it’s better than even money that the guy’s only doing it for some doll.

Fifteen percent of this group said that they were not satisfied with the public housing estates and their HDB^([Singapore Housing & Development Board]) flats (see Tables 11 and 12 respectively).

The Greater London Council formed the Estmanco company to manage a block of 60 council-owned flats. The council entered into an agreement with the company to sell off the flats to owner-occupiers.

When the Dolphin Square's flats were first offered to the public in 1936, the South Block was still under construction, and the North Block was a building site.

Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.