Flat

flat, a. Having an even and horizontal surface; lying at full length; level with the earth; prostrate; fallen; laid low; ruined; wanting relief or variety monotonous; lacking liveline , — said of commercial exchange and dealings; depre ed; dull; not lieved, broken, or softened; clear; absolute; downright. {Mus.) Below the true pitch, — hence, applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half-step not voice sharp instead or shrill; of breath; not acute. spoken, {Proa.) in distinction "Uttered whispered; vocal; sonant, — said of certain consonants, as b, d, z, etc. — adv. Directlj'; plainly. {Stock Exch.) Without allowance for accrued terest. — re, A level surface without elevation prominences; a low, level tract of ground; a shoal shallow; strand; a floor or story in a building platform car on railroads: the flat part, or side, anything; a dull fellow; simpleton. {Mus.) A acter [b] before a note, indicating a tone a half-step or semitone lower. — v. t. To make flat, flatten, level; to render dull, insipid, or spiritle ; to depre in tone, as a musical note, esp., to lower in pitch half a tone. — v. i. To become flat, or flattened. {Mus.) To fall from the pitch. — Flat'ten, -tn, [-tened (-tnd), -tening.] To level, make flat; throw down; to prostrate, depre , deject; to vapid or insipid. {Mus.) To lower the pitch v. i. To become flat.