Definitions for flats

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flats flat

Spelling: [flat]

IPA: /flæt/

Flats is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in flats (aflst).

Definitions for flats

noun

1. something flat.
2. a shoe, especially a woman's shoe, with a flat heel or no heel.
3. a flat surface, side, or part of anything:
4. flat or level ground; a flat area:
5. a marsh, shoal, or shallow.
6. Music. (in musical notation) the character ♭, which when attached to a note or to a staff degree lowers its significance one chromatic half step. a tone one chromatic half step below another: (on keyboard instruments, with reference to any given note) the key next below or to the left.
7. Theater. a piece of scenery consisting of a wooden frame, usually rectangular, covered with lightweight board or fabric.
8. a broad, thin book, chiefly for children:
9. Informal. a deflated automobile tire.
10. (in postal use) a large flat package, as in a manila envelope, for mailing.
11. Architecture. a flat roof or deck.
12. Nautical. Also called platform. a partial deck between two full decks. a low, flat barge or lighter.
13. Shipbuilding. a broad, flat piece of iron or steel for overlapping and joining two plates at their edges. a straight timber in a frame or other assembly of generally curved timbers.
14. an iron or steel bar of rectangular cross section.
15. Textiles. one of a series of laths covered with card clothing, used in conjunction with the cylinder in carding.
16. Photography. one or more negatives or positives in position to be reproduced.
17. Printing. a device for holding a negative or positive flat for reproduction by photoengraving.
18. Horticulture. a shallow, lidless box or tray used for rooting seeds and cuttings and for growing young plants.
19. a similar box used for shipping and selling fruits and vegetables.
20. Football. the area of the field immediately inside of or outside of an offensive end, close behind or at the line of scrimmage.
21. flats, Informal. flat races between horses. Compare flat race.
22. Chiefly British. an apartment or suite of rooms on one floor forming a residence.

Idioms

1. fall flat, to fail to produce the desired effect; fail completely:
2. flat aft, Nautical. trimmed so that fore-and-aft sails present as flat a surface as possible, as in sailing close to the wind.
3. flat on one's back. back1 (def 47).
4. flat out, Informal. without hesitation; directly or openly: at full speed or with maximum effort.

adverb

1. in a flat position; horizontally; levelly.
2. in a flat manner; positively; absolutely.
3. completely; utterly:
4. exactly; precisely:
5. Music. below the true pitch:
6. Finance. without interest.

adjective

1. horizontally level:
2. level, even, or without unevenness of surface, as land or tabletops.
3. having a surface that is without marked projections or depressions:
4. lying horizontally and at full length, as a person; prostrate:
5. lying wholly on or against something:
6. thrown down, laid low, or level with the ground, as fallen trees or buildings.
7. having a generally level shape or appearance; not deep or thick:
8. (of the heel of a shoe) low and broad.
9. spread out, as an unrolled map or the open hand.
10. deflated; collapsed:
11. absolute, downright, or positive; without qualification:
12. without modification or variation:
13. Informal. lacking money; broke.
14. without vitality or animation; lifeless; dull:
15. having lost its flavor, sharpness, or life, as wine or food; stale.
16. (of a beverage) having lost its effervescence.
17. without flavor; not spiced:
18. prosaic, banal, or insipid:
19. pointless, as a remark or joke.
20. commercially inactive:
21. (of a painting) not having the illusion of volume or depth.
22. (of a photograph or painting) lacking contrast or gradations of tone or color.
23. (of paint) without gloss; not shiny; mat.
24. not clear, sharp, or ringing, as sound or a voice.
25. lacking resonance and variation in pitch; monotonous:
26. Music. (of a tone) lowered a half step in pitch: below an intended pitch, as a note; too low (opposed to sharp).
27. Grammar. derived without change in form, as English to brush from the noun brush and adverbs that do not add -ly to the adjective form as fast, cheap, and slow.
28. Phonetics. lenis; voiced.
29. Nautical. cut with little or no fullness. trimmed as nearly fore-and-aft as possible, for sailing to windward.
30. flat a, the a -sound (a) of glad, bat, or act.

Verb phrases

1. flat in, Nautical. to pull the clew of (a fore-and-aft sail) as nearly amidships as possible. Also, flatten in.

verb (used with object)

1. to make flat.
2. Music. to lower (a pitch), especially one half step.

verb (used without object)

1. to become flat.

Origin of flats

1275-1325; Middle English Old Norse flatr, akin to Old English flet (see flat²), Greek platýs (see platy-,

Examples for flats

Steps were on the stairs, but they stopped at one of the flats below.

The flats are very grassy, but the hills are covered with spinifex.

Real estate was a hot investment for the moneyed of China, but as the market cooled down in many cities, flats were left empty.

Twenty times I must have gone up and down the staircase which separated our two flats.

I shuffle through the sheet music, avoiding tunes in keys with more than two sharps or flats, until I hit on “Old Shanghai.”

Within a very few minutes of her entering the flats there remained no doubt at all.

The rope had parted, and they were left helpless on the flats.

One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.

Feather had recorded as a pianist, and although he would never put Oscar Peterson out of business, he knew his sharps and flats.

The wounded warrior in front of me rode so well, and so fast, dusting me in the flats, that for a while I forgot he was a veteran.