flat - Meaning in Tamil

flat - Meaning in Tamil

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Definitions and Meaning of flat in English

flat adjective

1. not reflecting light; not glossy

   Examples

   • "a photograph with a matte finish"
   • "flat wall paint"
2. (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone

   Example

   • "B flat"
3. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

   Example

   • "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
4. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

   Example

   • "found himself lying flat on the floor"
5. horizontally level

   Example

   • "a flat roof"
6. lacking contrast or shading between tones
7. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

   Examples

   • "a flat desk"
   • "a plane surface"
   • "acres of level farmland"
   • "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
8. lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth

   Examples

   • "a film with two-dimensional characters"
   • "a flat two-dimensional painting"
9. having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

   Example

   • "flat computer monitors"
10. commercially inactive

    Examples

    • "a flat market"
    • "flat sales for the month"
    • "prices remained flat"
11. not modified or restricted by reservations

    Examples

    • "a categorical denial"
    • "a flat refusal"
12. having lost effervescence

    Examples

    • "a flat cola"
    • "flat beer"
13. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

    Examples

    • "a bland little drama"
    • "a flat joke"
14. lacking taste or flavor or tang

    Examples

    • "a bland diet"
    • "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"
    • "insipid hospital food"
    • "vapid beer"
    • "vapid tea"
15. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

flat abverb

1. with flat sails

   Example

   • "sail flat against the wind"
2. in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly

   Examples

   • "came out flat for less work and more pay"
   • "he didn't answer directly"
   • "told me straight out"

flat noun

1. a level tract of land

   Example

   • "the salt flats of Utah"
2. a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
3. freight car without permanent sides or roof
4. a shallow box in which seedlings are started
5. a deflated pneumatic tire
6. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
7. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

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