From en.wiktionary.org:
[flåt]
** English
[Flat]
*** Pronunciation
- [flăt] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], a borrowing from [en][1] (compare Norwegian and [sv], [da]),
from [en], from [en]; akin to [stq], [de], [grc], [lv], [sa].[2] [en].
The noun is from [en], from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by [Jean-Pierre Serre] in
[Algebraic_geometry_and_analytic_geometry#GAGA], originally as [en].
**** Adjective
[er]
1. Having no variations in height .
1. In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping .
2. Smooth ; having no protrusions , indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
3. * [chapter=17]
4. [en] Having small or invisible breast s and/or buttock s.
2. Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
1. At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
2. [en] Of fees, fares etc., fixed ; unvarying .
3. [en] Without variations in pitch.
4. [en] Not diphthongal ; without variation in height or backness .
5. [en] Without variation in tone or hue ( uniform ), and [en] (not [en] ).
3. [en] Lacking liveliness or action ; depressed ; uninteresting ; dull and boring .
4. * FEBRUARY 16, 1833 , [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] , _Table Talk_
5. *: A large part of the work is, to me, very FLAT .
6. * [I]
1. [en] Lacking in depth , substance , or believability ; underdeveloped ; one-dimensional .
7. [en] Lowered by one semitone .
8. [en] Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
9. Absolute ; downright ; peremptory .
10. * [sig=B4]
11. * [act=IV]
12. * 1602 , 吴语: John Marston (poet) , _Antonio and Mellida_ , Malone Society Reprint, 1921, Act I, lines 324-326, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/antonioandmellid00marsuoft </sup>
13. *: He is made like a tilting staffe; and lookes
14. *: For all the world like an ore-rosted pigge:
15. *: A great _Tobacco_ taker too, thats FLAT .
16. [en] Deflate d, especially because of a puncture .
17. [en] [en] With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizz es or contains any bubble s.
18. [en] Lacking acidity without being sweet .
19. [en] Unable to emit power; dead .
20. [en] Without spin; spinless .
21. [en] Sonant ; vocal , as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
22. [en] Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such 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".
23. [en] Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft .
24. [en] Flattening at the ends.
25. [en] Exact .
26. [en] Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequence s. [See [Flat module]] .
27. [en] Such that its target , regarded as a module over its source , is flat (as above).
28. [en] Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
29. [en] Having little froth and little milk.
30. [en] [foolish] ; simple-minded.
31. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1851 | year_published=1861 | author=w:Henry Mayhew
|title=w:London Labour and the London Poor |passage=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.}}
***** Alternative forms
- [en]
***** Synonyms
- [having no variations in altitude] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [without variations in pitch] [en]
- [uninteresting] [en] , [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:boring
- [deflated] [en] d, puncture d
- [of a carbonated drink: no longer fizzes] [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:noneffervescent
- [of wine: lacking acidity] [en]
***** Antonyms
- [having no variations in altitude] [en] , [en] , [en] [of terrain] , rough [of a surface] , wrinkled [of a surface]
- [music: lowered by one semitone] [en]
- [music: lower in pitch than it should be] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|absolutely flat |A-flat |aflat|flat lizard|flat metro|flat-tail sea
snake |and that's flat |B-flat |C-flat |D-flat |diaper flat |E-flat| flat as
my hat|flat as your hat|flat-backed millipede|snow flat |faithfully
flat|flat-fell seam|flat-felled seam |fall flat |fall flat on one's face
|F-flat |flat adverb |flat affect |flat as a pancake |flatback |flatbacker
|flat back four |flatbed |flatbill |flat-blade screwdriver |flatboat
|flat-bottom |flat-bottomed,flatbottomed,flat bottomed |flatbread |flat bread
|flat bug |Flatbush |flat cake |flat candlestick |flat cap |flatcar
|flat-chested,flatchested |flat cracker |flat crossing |flat design |flat
diaper |flat dog |flat-earth |flat-earther |flat earthery |flat-earthism
|flat-faced longhorn |flat-faced seahorse |flat fare |flatfield |flat file
|flatfish |flat five |flat-footed,flatfooted |flatfoot,flat feet |flatform
|Flathead |flathead |flat-headed cat |flat-headed,flatheaded |flat-heeled
|flatification |flatiron,flat iron |flat iron steak |flat junction |flatland
|flatlay |flatleaf |flatline |flatling |flatlings |flat lock |flatlock |flatly
|flatmount |flat-mouthed |flat nappy |flatness |flatnose |flat on one's back
|flat out |flat oval |flatpack |flat pack |flatpacked |flat peach |flatpick
|flatpicking |flatplan |flat race |flat rail |flat rate |flat real mode |flat
ride |Flat Rock |Flatrock |flatrod |flat rope |flat round |flatsawn |flatscape
|flat scissors |flatscreen |flatsedge |flat silver |flat space |flat spin
|flat spot |flat stick |flattard |flat tax,flat rate tax |flatten |flat text
|flattie |flat time |flattish |flattop |flat-topped |flat-track bully |flat
twist |flatty |flat tyre,flat tire |flat wagon |flatware |flatwater |flat
water |flatweave |flatweed |flat white |flatwing |flatwise |flatwork |flatworm
|flat-wound |flatwoven |flat wrack |fold flat |G-flat |in a flat spin |knock
someone flat |layflat |like a cow on a flat rock |like a cow pissing on a flat
rock |lined flat bark beetle |lying flat |nappy flat |nonflat |run-flat
|semiflat |superflat |that's flat |ultraflat }}
***** Descendants
- [pt]
***** Translations
[having no variations in altitude]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] [having less thickness]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Makasae: [mkz]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] [of a nose] , [mi] [of a nose] , [mi] [of land] , [mi] [of land] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] [of a roof]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Minangkabau: [min]
- Mingrelian: [xmf] , [xmf] , [xmf]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Javanese: [kaw]
- Old Portuguese: [roa-opt]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polabian: [pox]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Svan: [sva] , [sva]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[of a body part having no projection]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi] [refers to the nose] , [mi] [refers to the nose] , [mi] [refers to the nose]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[without variations in pitch]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Maori: [mi] [of an instrument] , [mi] [of a voice]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[uninteresting]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [Quebec] [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[lowered by one semitone]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
[trans-bottom]
[lower in pitch than it should be]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[of a tyre: deflated]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] [colloquial]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[with its carbon dioxide having come out of solution]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[unable to emit power]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Burmese: [my]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] [battery] , [de] [slang]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Khmer: [km]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[of coffee]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adverb
[en-adv]
1. So as to be flat.
2. Completely , firmly , or unequivocally .
3. * [1=en]
4. [en] Exactly , precisely .
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. [with units of time, distance, etc] [Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.]
8. * [en]
9. [en] Without parole.
10. * [en]
11. Completely.
12. Directly; flatly.
13. * [passage=Sin is FLAT opposite to the Almighty.]
14. [en] Without allowance for accrue d interest .
***** Synonyms
- [so as to be flat]
- [bluntly] [en] , [en]
- [not exceeding] [en]
- [completely] [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[so as to be flat]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[bluntly]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[with units of time, distance, etc: not exceeding]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[completely]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
right [en-noun]
1. An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
2. * [chapter=Of Envy]
3. * [chapter=3]
1. [en] Level ground in general.
2. [en] Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
3. * 2020 , Brian Sheerin, _Racing Post_ , "Gordon Elliott maps out summer Flat campaigns for talented jumpers" (article) see https://www.racingpost.com/news/gordon-elliott-maps-out-summer-flat-campaigns-for-talented-jumpers/431475
4. *: 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.
5. * 2021 (retrieved), racing365.com, "Flat Racing Explained" see https://racing365.com/flat-racing-explained/
6. *: In British horse racing, the classics are a series of horse races run over the FLAT (i.e. without jumps).
7. [en] the area in the centre of a racecourse.
8. * [1=en]
9. [en] The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
4. [en] [en] 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._ ♭♪).
5. [en] A flat tyre / flat tire .
6. * [en]
7. [en] A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
8. [en] A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
9. [en] A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
10. The most prominent flat part of something.
11. * 2024 , Robert J. Meurn, _Marine Cargo Operations_
12. *: 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.
1. [en] The flat side of a blade , as opposed to the sharp edge .
2. The palm of the hand , with the adjacent part of the finger s.
13. A wide , shallow container or pallet .
14. [en] [en] [en] .
15. [en] A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalog s, magazine s, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelope s.
16. [en] A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar .
17. * [en]
18. [en] A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
19. * [en]
20. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
21. [en] A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension . < !-- 吴语: Flat (geometry) -->
22. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
23. A flat sheet for use on a bed.
24. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1986 | journal=New York Magazine | volume=19 | issue=49 | page=20
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
2. * [en]
3. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions. < !--older form of "float"?-->
4. [en] A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. [3]
5. [en] A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite , lauan , or muslin , often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene , and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop .
6. [en] Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
7. [en] An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
8. * [en]
9. [en] A dull fellow; a simpleton.
10. * [en]
11. * [14]
12. [en] .
13. [en] A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
14. * [1=en]
15. [en] A cheater 's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
16. * [en]
17. [en] A 24-case of beer.
***** Antonyms
- [note] [en]
- [shoes] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en|Ash Flat|Captains Flat |container flat|mudflat,mud flat|tidal
flat|wheel flat|salt flat|alkali flat|ballet flat|double flat|false flat|flat
lad|Halls Flat|Hollywood flat,Hollywood-style flat|on the flat|six-ace
flat|flat joint|flat passer|flat store|mahogany flat|optical flat|Broadway
flat|Hollywood flat|stage flat|dead
flat|dusk-flat|demiflat|sandflat|tideflat}}
***** Translations
[area of level ground]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[music: note played a semitone lower than a natural]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] [symbol ♭]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[flat tyre]
[plural: ladies' shoes]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] [e.g.] , [de] , [de] [e.g.]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Polish: [pl] na płaskim obcasie
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] (sko)
[trans-bottom]
[thin, broad brush]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
[flat part of something]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] [small part]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[swordfighting: flat side of a blade]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
[palm of the hand]
[wide, shallow container]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] [small]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Neapolitan: (2): [nap]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To make a flat call ; to call without raising .
2. [en] To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
3. [en] To fall from the pitch .
4. [en] To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
5. [en] To make flat; to flatten; to level.
6. * [chapter= 吴语: Stephen, King of England , the Two and Fortieth Monarch of the English-men: His Raigne, Acts, and Issue]
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1764 | author=James Granger | location=M.D. | title=The Sugar-Cane: a Poem. In Four Books. With Notes. | section=Book 1, page 44, note to verse 605
|passage=The pods, which seldom contain less than thirty nuts of the size of a
FLATTED olive, grow upon the stem and principal branches.}}
1. [en] To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
2. * [sermonname=The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[(intransitive) (of a tire)]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
right From 1795, alteration of [en], from [en], from [en], [ang], from [en],
from [en], from [en]. Akin to [ofs]. More at [en], [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] A complete domicile occupying only part of a building , especially one for rent
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1905 | author=Sydney Perks | title=Residential FLATS of all classes, including artisans' dwellings: a practical treatise on their planning and arrangement, together with chapters on their history, financial matters, etc.,with numerous illustrations | pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yaBLAAAAMAAJ&q=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher+flat%22%7C%22flats%22&dq=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher+flat%22%7C%22flats%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zf-gVZjMOsjGmAWJ6rLYAQ&redir_esc=y | page=204
|passage=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."}}
1. * {{ quote-song | en
|date=1953-01-01 |artist=Marilyn Monroe |album=My Heart Belongs to Daddy
|title=Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
|url=https://genius.com/Marilyn-monroe-diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friend-lyrics
|passage=A kiss may be grand but it won’t pay the rental on your humble FLAT
or help you at the automat.}}
1. * {{ quote-song | en
|date=1955-11-03 |artist=[Stubby Kaye] (as Nicely Nicely Johnson); [Johnny
Silver] (as Benny Southstreet) |album=Guys and Dolls (Original Broadway Cast
Recording) |title=Guys and Dolls
|url=https://genius.com/Frank-loesser-guys-and-dolls-lyrics
|passage=[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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1983 | author=Tai Ching Ling | chapter=Relocation and Population Planning: A Study of the Implications of Public Housing and Family Planning in Singapore | editors=Wilfredo F. Arce; Gabriel C. Alvarez | title=Population Change in Southeast Asia | pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=F5QmLbefTg8C&pg=PA184&dq=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher+flat%22%7C%22flats%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GAShVamBKIbymQXHwLqgCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher%20flat%22%7C%22flats%22&f=false | page=184
|passage=Fifteen percent of this group said that they were not satisfied with
the public housing estates and their HDB<sup>[Singapore Housing & Development
Board]</sup> FLATS (see Tables 11 and 12 respectively).}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2002 | author=MIchael Ottley | title=Briefcase on Company Law | pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_emOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76&dq=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher+flat%22%7C%22flats%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fgihVbXZBKTDmwXTnYLABg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher%20flat%22%7C%22flats%22&f=false | page=76
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2014 | author=Terry Gourvish | title=Dolphin Square: The History of a Unique Building | pageurl=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B633AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75&dq=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher+flat%22%7C%22flats%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GAShVamBKIbymQXHwLqgCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22my%7Cyour%7Chis%7Cher%20flat%22%7C%22flats%22&f=false | page=75
|passage=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.}}
1. * [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Descendants
- [pt]
***** Translations
[apartment]
*** Etymology 3
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To beat or strike ; pound
2. [en] To dash or throw
3. [en] To dash, rush
***** Derived terms
- [en]
*** References
- [R:OneLook]
References:
[1]. [R:Etymonline]
[2]. Sanskrit, OHG and Greek cognates named (see http://ordnet.dk/ods/opslag?opslag=flad&submit=S%F8g)
[3]. [R:Raymond Glossary]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl] _(1931)_ .
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. flat , apartment
2. tower block
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
[nl]
** Indonesian
*** Noun
[id-noun]
1. [en] house
** Latin
*** Verb
[la]
1. [la]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm], from [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Adjective
[enm-adj]
1. level , even , smooth
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [yol]
**** References
- [entry=flat]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From [nb].
*** Adjective
[nb]
1. [en]
**** Derived terms
- [nb]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From [nn].
*** Adjective
[nn]
1. [en]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Old English
*** Pronunciation
- [ang]
*** Verb
[ang]
1. [ang]
** Portuguese
*** Pronunciation
[flate,fléte]
*** Etymology 1
[pt].
**** Adjective
[pt-adj]
1. [pt] [en]
*** Etymology 2
[pt].
**** Noun
[m< l:Brazil>,f < l:Mozambique>]
1. [pt] [en] , apartment
** Scottish Gaelic
*** Noun
[g=m]
1. [gd] saucer
2. flat , apartment
**** Synonyms
- [saucer] [gd]
*** Mutation
[f]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv], from [sv], from [sv].
*** Adjective
[sv-adj]
1. flat [having no variations in altitude]
2. spineless , being a doormat , abstaining from defending one's convictions
**** Declension
[sv-adj-reg]
**** Synonyms
- [flat] [sv]
- [spineless] [sv] , [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]
*** Anagrams
- [sv]