Read the dictionary definition of flat. All definitions for this word.
1. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
2. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
3. a deflated pneumatic tire
4. a shallow box in which seedlings are started
5. freight car without permanent sides or roof
6. a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
7. a level tract of land
1. the salt flats of Utah
8. commercially inactive
1. flat sales for the month
2. prices remained flat
3. a flat market
9. not reflecting light; not glossy
1. flat wall paint
2. a photograph with a matte finish
10. having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
1. flat computer monitors
11. lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
1. a film with two-dimensional characters
2. a flat two-dimensional painting
12. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
1. a flat desk
2. acres of level farmland
3. a plane surface
4. skirts sewn with fine flat seams
13. lacking contrast or shading between tones
14. horizontally level
1. a flat roof
15. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
1. found himself lying flat on the floor
16. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
1. the owl's faint monotonous hooting
17. (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
1. B flat
18. not modified or restricted by reservations
1. a categorical denial
2. a flat refusal
19. having lost effervescence
1. flat beer
2. a flat cola
20. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
1. a bland little drama
2. a flat joke
21. lacking taste or flavor or tang
1. a bland diet
2. insipid hospital food
3. flavorless supermarket tomatoes
4. vapid beer
5. vapid tea
22. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
23. in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
1. he didn't answer directly
2. told me straight out
3. came out flat for less work and more pay
24. with flat sails
1. sail flat against the wind
