flat
/ˈflæt/ noun A1- 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
- 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.
- 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
- The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
- 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.
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel. · She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
Plural flats
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I don’t mind floating down when there’s two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up.
To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks.
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions.
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