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having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams" having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors" categoric: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" lacking contrast or shading between tones lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" compressed: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) bland: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" bland: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah" (of taxes) not increasing as the amount taxed increases a shallow box in which seedlings are started sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named horizontally level; "a flat roof" two-dimensional: 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" flatcar: freight car without permanent sides or roof a deflated pneumatic tire (of a tire) completely or partially deflated scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" apartment: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market" directly: 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"
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| flatfoot |
a policeman who patrols a given region a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out
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| flatness |
two-dimensionality: the property of having two dimensions a want of animation or brilliance; "the almost self-conscious flatness of Hemingway's style" a deficiency in flavor; "it needed lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried lentils" the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss languor: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"
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| flatulence |
a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal turgidity: pompously embellished language
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| flatus |
fart: a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
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