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flat
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[ adjective ] having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another
Examples "a flat desk" "acres of level farmland" "a plane surface" Used in print (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)Place flat palms on either side of the head a_few inches away from the ears , fingers pointing toward the shoulders . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)It consists_of two blocks with flat surfaces held apart by shims . However , they do demonstrate the presence of large normal pressures in the presence of flat shear fields which were forecast by the theory in the first part of the paper . (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)The top of the sample was nearly flat and the bottom hemispherical . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)In their very first collages , Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth , so that certain_of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust_out into real , bas-relief space - or to be about to do so - while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in , or flat upon , the surface . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having no depth or thickness
Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)It was the collage that made the terms of_this dilemma clear : the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become , for_the_first_time , mutually_exclusive alternatives . Large planes juxtaposed with other large planes tend to assert themselves as independent shapes , and to_the_extent that they are flat , they also assert themselves as silhouettes ; and independent silhouettes are apt to coincide with the recognizable contours of the subject from which a picture starts ( if it does start from a subject ) . Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . Some time in 1912 , Picasso cut_out and folded a piece_of_paper in the shape of a guitar ; to this he glued and fitted other pieces_of_paper and four taut strings , thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture_plane . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)Beneath his clutch , a flat strip of muscle surged on the bone . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not modified or restricted by reservations
Synonyms Examples "a categorical denial" "a flat refusal" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Three seconds flat is the usual time , and the space is crossed by moderate mileage , while the overwhelming immensity of such journeys must be conceived as a static pulsation through an enormous number of coexistent frequencies which perpetuate all events . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (photography) lacking contrast or shading between tones
Used in print (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)Unlike many decorative patterns that present a static flat convention , this artist 's pictures are full of atmosphere and climate . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a shallow box in which seedlings are started
Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)I started the seed in a flat in June and set_out the little pansies in a cold_frame . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] at full length
Examples "he fell flat on his face" Used in print (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)Russ gave him a brutal thrust that tumbled him over flat on his stomach . |
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[ adjective ] (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
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[ adjective ] having lost effervescence
Examples "flat beer" "a flat cola" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (transportation) freight car without permanent sides or roof
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[ adjective ] lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
Synonyms Examples "a film with two-dimensional characters" "a flat two-dimensional painting" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (theater) scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
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[ adjective ] not made with leavening
Synonyms Examples "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking taste or flavor or tang
Synonyms Examples "a bland diet" "insipid hospital food" "flavorless supermarket tomatoes" "vapid beer" "vapid tea" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
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[ adjective ] lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
Synonyms Examples "a bland little drama" "a flat joke" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
Synonyms Examples "a film with two-dimensional characters" "a flat two-dimensional painting" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
Examples "he didn't answer directly" "told me straight out" "came out flat for less work and more pay" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] wholly or completely
Examples "He is flat broke" |
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[ noun ] (music) a notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
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[ adverb ] against a flat surface
Examples "he lay flat on his back" |
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[ adverb ] with flat sails
Examples "sail flat against the wind" |
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[ adverb ] below the proper pitch
Examples "she sang flat last night" |
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[ adjective ] lacking taste or flavor or tang
Synonyms bland insipid flavourless savorless savourless vapid flavorless Examples "a bland diet" "insipid hospital food" "flavorless supermarket tomatoes" "vapid beer" "vapid tea" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (housing) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
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