FLAT

Definitions

1. 1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.
2. 2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. Shak.
3. 3. Something broad and flat in form; as:
4. 4. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
5. 5. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
6. 6. A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
7. 7. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
8. 8. A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
9. 9. A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. Raymond.
10. 10. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. Holmes.
11. 11. A character [] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
12. 12. A homaloid space or extension.