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flat - scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting |
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scene,
scenery graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept; "he painted scenes from everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment"
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mise en scene,
setting,
stage setting arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
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coulisse,
wing flat a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel
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teaser,
tormenter,
tormentor a device for teasing wool; "a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers"
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flat - a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah" |
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champaign,
field,
plain a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
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alluvial flat,
alluvial plain a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water
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salt flat,
salt plain a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water
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flat - a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named |
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musical notation (music) notation used by musicians
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double flat a musical notation of two flats in front of a note indicating that it is to be lowered by two semitones
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flat - a deflated pneumatic tire |
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pneumatic tire,
pneumatic tyre a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc
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flat - a shallow box in which seedlings are started |
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box a blow with the hand (usually on the ear); "I gave him a good box on the ear"
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flat - sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" |
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monotone,
monotonic,
monotonous |
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unmodulated characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume; "he lectured in an unmodulated voice edged with hysteria"
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flat - not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" |
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mat,
matt,
matte,
matted |
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dull (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
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flat - 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" |
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level,
plane |
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even equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced; "even amounts of butter and sugar"; "on even terms"; "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"; "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"; "an even fight"
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flat - lacking contrast or shading between tones |
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contrasty having sharp differences between black and white
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photography,
picture taking the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
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flat - (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" |
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natural being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"
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sharp having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point"
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music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest"
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flat - having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors" |
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planar,
two-dimensional involving two dimensions
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flat - commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market" |
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inactive not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"
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flat - horizontally level; "a flat roof" |
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horizontal parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface"
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flat - stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" |
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prostrate |
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unerect not upright in position or posture
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flat - having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" |
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noneffervescent not effervescent
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| adverb |
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flat - with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" |
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