Flattest

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. {Flatter} (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r);
     superl. {Flattest} (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr,
     Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G.
     fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
     1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
        without prominences or depressions; level without


        inclination; plane.
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              Though sun and moon
              Were in the flat sea sunk.            --Milton.
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     2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground;
        level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat
        on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
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              What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
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              I feel . . . my hopes all flat.       --Milton.
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     3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
        points of prominence and striking interest.
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              A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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     4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
        flat to the taste.
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     5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
        monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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              How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
              Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak.
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     6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
        depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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     7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
        downright.
  
     Syn: flat-out.
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                Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
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                A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
                                                    --Marston.
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     8. (Mus.)
        (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
            minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
            flat.
        (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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     9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
        sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
        nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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     10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
         -- said of a club.
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     11. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, 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. Many flat adverbs, as in
         run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the
         loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives.
         Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful,
         true, are now archaic.
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     12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain
         fruits.
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     {Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b).
  
     {Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}.
  
     {Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of
        ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
        and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
  
     {Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
  
     {Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of
        rectangular section. See {File}.
  
     {Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
        flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
  
     {Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded.
  
     {Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
        spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
  
     {Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
        for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
        --Raymond.
  
     {Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
        gasket; sennit.
  
     Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
           made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
           wide, flat band. --Knight.
  
     {Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}.
  
     {Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
     tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
        
  
     {To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
        intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
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              Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
              Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
                                                    Erskine.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flat
       adj 1: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or
              lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level
              farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: {level}, {plane}]
       2: having no depth or thickness
       3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical
          denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: {categoric}, {categorical},
           {unconditional}]
       4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
          "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: {prostrate}]
       5: lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: {contrasty}]
       6: lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: {natural},
           {sharp}]
       7: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
          leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: {compressed}]
       8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
          hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
          beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: {bland}, {flavorless}, {flavourless},
           {insipid}, {savorless}, {savourless}, {vapid}]
       9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
          little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: {bland}]
       10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
       11: not increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: {fixed}]
       12: not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from
           unleavened dough" [syn: {unraised}]
       13: parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
       14: without pleats [syn: {unpleated}]
       15: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an
           illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional
           characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: {two-dimensional}]
       16: (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
       17: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
           photograph with a matte finish" [syn: {mat}, {matt}, {matte},
            {matted}]
       18: lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"
       n 1: a level tract of land
       2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
       3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the
          note named
       4: freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: {flatcar},
           {flatbed}]
       5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: {flat tire}]
       6: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted
          canvas; part of a stage setting
       7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
          [syn: {apartment}]
       adv 1: at full length; "he fell flat on his face"
       2: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
       3: below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"
       4: against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"
       5: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't
          answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat
          for less work and more pay" [syn: {directly}, {straight}]
          [ant: {indirectly}]
       6: wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"
       [also: {flatting}, {flatted}, {flattest}, {flatter}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flattest
       See {flat}