0 level and smooth, with no curved, high, or hollow parts:
An ice rink needs to be completely flat.
Much of the countryside in that region is very flat.
2 not interesting, or without emotion or excitement:
3 with no electrical power left in it:
4 If a drink is flat, it has stopped being fizzy (= with bubbles):
6 If something such as a tyre or ball is flat, it does not contain enough air:
7 (especially of an amount of money) fixed and not likely to change:
8 If profits, sales, etc. are flat, they are not growing or increasing:
9 a set of rooms for living in that are part of a larger building and are usually all on one floor:
a furnished/unfurnished flat
a block of flats
12 women's shoes without high heels:
I feel more comfortable in flats.
13 (a symbol for) a note that is a semitone lower than a stated note
14 (in music) lower than a particular note or the correct note:
17 completely or to the greatest degree possible:
18 level and smooth; having little or no height and not raised or round:
21 lower in pitch than a particular or the correct note
22 an apartment:
23 something flat, esp. a tire that has lost its air, so that it does not give the support that it should:
24 a mark in written music showing that a note should be played a half step lower
26 completely, or to the greatest degree possible:
27 exactly:
28 if profits, sales, etc. are flat, they are not growing or increasing:
29 if the stock market is flat, the prices of shares are not rising or falling:
30 fixed and without any additional costs:
31 used to describe the structure of an organization in which there are not many different levels of employees between the top and the bottom:
Companies with a flat organizational structure can usually make decisions more quickly.
32 a set of rooms for living in which are part of a larger building and which are usually all on one floor:
a furnished/unfurnished flat
a block of flats
He works as a property developer, buying, renovating and selling on flats in the capital.
33 to be unsuccessful:
There are drainage channels all over this flat agricultural land.
A broad sweep of flat countryside stretched to the horizon in all directions.
For a monthly flat fee, paid by the consumer or employer, HMOs provide a specified list of medical services both in and outside the hospital.
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