Flat

(noun.) scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting.

(noun.) a deflated pneumatic tire.

(noun.) a shallow box in which seedlings are started.

(noun.) a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named.

(noun.) a level tract of land; 'the salt flats of Utah'.

(adj.) commercially inactive; 'flat sales for the month'; 'prices remained flat'; 'a flat market' .

(adj.) not reflecting light; not glossy; 'flat wall paint'; 'a photograph with a matte finish' .

(adj.) having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; 'flat computer monitors' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) lacking contrast or shading between tones .

(adj.) horizontally level; 'a flat roof' .

(adj.) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; 'found himself lying flat on the floor' .

(adj.) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; 'the owl's faint monotonous hooting' .

(adj.) (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; 'B flat' .

(adj.) having lost effervescence; 'flat beer'; 'a flat cola' .

(adv.) with flat sails; 'sail flat against the wind'.

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• A hob was the flat part of the open hearth where water and spirits were warmed; and the small table, at which people sat when so engaged, was called a nob. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Won't you come round to the flat? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• One never tired of seeing her: she was never monotonous, or insipid, or colourless, or flat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I have something more to say on my side, he announced, bringing down the flat of his hand on the table with a bang. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In a moment they saw him, and then me; but scarcely had they discovered me than I commenced firing, lying flat upon my belly in the moss. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Fort Fisher was situated upon a low, flat peninsula north of Cape Fear River. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Burnside had stretched a boom across the Holston River to catch scows and flats as they floated down. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But after a little while I seemed to have the whole flats to myself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Horseshoes, swords, and the heads of halberds, or bills, are often found there; one place is called the Danes' well, another the Battle flats. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I flatter myself that I have some influence over her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The word demagogue has been frightfully maltreated in late years, but surely here is its real meaning--to flatter the people by telling them that their failures are somebody else's fault. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Instead of having to flatter, she would be flattered; instead of being grateful, she would receive thanks. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I've been helping you a little; I flatter myself not injudiciously. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That is a contradiction in terms; and even implies the flattest of all contradictions, viz. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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