The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flatting.]
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
--Barrow. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flat)
WordNet
adj. having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: level, plane]
having no depth or thickness
not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, unconditional]
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: prostrate]
lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty]
lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp]
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed]
lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland]
having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
not increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: fixed]
not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" [syn: unraised]
parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
without pleats [syn: unpleated]
lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: two-dimensional]
(of a tire) completely or partially deflated
not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: mat, matt, matte, matted]
lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"
adv. at full length; "he fell flat on his face"
with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"
against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"
in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: directly, straight] [ant: indirectly]
wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"
n. a level tract of land
a shallow box in which seedlings are started
a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar, flatbed]
a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat tire]
scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: apartment]
See flat
Usage examples of "flatted".
The body, propelled forward by the momentum of its charge and the impact from behind, started to roll and flatted yet more stakes.
I paused near one and saw a flatted bullet pop out like a piece of gravel melting out of ice.
Now began a long series of operations carried out with extraordinary speed: yards were braced, jibs hauled down, set again and flatted in, staysails flashed out, hands sent to the larboard side of the forecastle and head so that their weight might help - every conceivable manoeuvre to get the ship a few yards to windward, to overcome her natural leeway, the effect of the waves that kept knocking her head off the wind, and that of the powerful current perpetually setting east.
His nose flatted out under my knuckles and when he pulled back away, blood trickled.