[おあいそ;おあいそう, oaiso ; oaisou] (n) (1) (pol) (See 愛想) compliment; flattery; (2) service; hospitality; (3) bill (at a restaurant; formerly, not used by customers); check [Add to Longdo]
[píng, ㄆㄧㄥˊ, 平] flat; level; equal; to tie (make the same score); to draw (score); calm; peaceful; level or even tone (i.e. first and second tones in classical Chinese); surname Ping [Add to Longdo]
[まいなすどらいば, mainasudoraiba] flat-bladed screwdriver [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (8 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. {Flatter} (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r);
superl. {Flattest} (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr,
Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G.
fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without
inclination; plane.
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Though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton.
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2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground;
level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat
on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
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What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
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I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton.
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3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
points of prominence and striking interest.
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A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
--Coleridge.
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4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
flat to the taste.
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5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak.
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6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.
Syn: flat-out.
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Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
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A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
--Marston.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
flat.
(b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
-- said of a club.
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11. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a
noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb,
without the addition of a formative suffix, or an
infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in
run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the
loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives.
Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful,
true, are now archaic.
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12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain
fruits.
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{Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b).
{Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}.
{Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of
ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
{Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
{Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of
rectangular section. See {File}.
{Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
{Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded.
{Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
{Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
--Raymond.
{Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
wide, flat band. --Knight.
{Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}.
{Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
{To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
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Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
Erskine.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flatted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flatting}.]
1. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
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2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
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Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
--Barrow.
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3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to
lower in pitch by half a tone.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flat \Flat\, n.
1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or
prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the
United States, a level tract along the along the banks of
a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
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Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a
bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.
--Bacon.
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2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of
water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a
shoal; a shallow; a strand.
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Half my power, this night
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. --Shak.
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3. Something broad and flat in form; as:
(a) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small
draught.
(b) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of
which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(d) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs,
etc., are carried in processions.
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4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of
a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
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5. (Arch.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially,
a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in
itself; an apartment taking up a whole floor. In this
latter sense, the usage is more common in British English.
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6. (Mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a
main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not
elsewhere horizontal. --Raymond.
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7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.]
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Or if you can not make a speech,
Because you are a flat. --Holmes.
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8. (Mus.) A character [[flat]] before a note, indicating a
tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
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9. (Geom.) A homaloid space or extension.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flat \Flat\, adv.
1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
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Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. --Herbert.
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2. (Stock Exchange) Without allowance for accrued interest.
[Broker's Cant]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flat \Flat\, v. i.
1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even
surface. --Sir W. Temple.
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2. (Mus.) To fall form the pitch.
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{To flat out}, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a
bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flat
adv 1: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
2: 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}, {flat}, {straight}]
[ant: {indirectly}]
adj 1: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is
higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of
level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with
fine flat seams" [syn: {flat}, {level}, {plane}]
2: having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or
thickness; "flat computer monitors"
3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical
denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: {categoric}, {categorical},
{flat}, {unconditional}]
4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
"found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: {flat},
{prostrate}]
5: lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: {contrasty}]
6: (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic
semitone; "B flat" [ant: {natural}, {sharp}]
7: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: {compressed}, {flat}]
8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: {bland}, {flat}, {flavorless},
{flavourless}, {insipid}, {savorless}, {savourless}, {vapid}]
9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: {bland}, {flat}]
10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
11: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: {flat}, {monotone},
{monotonic}, {monotonous}]
12: horizontally level; "a flat roof"
13: 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},
{2-dimensional}, {flat}]
14: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: {flat}, {mat}, {matt},
{matte}, {matted}]
15: commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices
remained flat"; "a flat market"
n 1: a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the
note named
4: freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: {flatcar},
{flatbed}, {flat}]
5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: {flat}, {flat 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
[syn: {apartment}, {flat}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
flat
adj.
1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure. ?That {bitty box} has
only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one.? The verb form is
{flatten}.
2. Said of a memory architecture (like that of the {VAX} or 680x0) that is
one big linear address space (typically with each possible value of a
processor register corresponding to a unique core address), as opposed to a
segmented architecture (like that of the 80x86) in which addresses are
composed from a base-register/offset pair (segmented designs are generally
considered {cretinous}).
Note that sense 1 (at least with respect to filesystems) is usually used
pejoratively, while sense 2 is a {Good Thing}.
From Dutch-English Freedict dictionary [fd-nld-eng]:
flat [flɛt]
apartmentbuilding; blockofflats
apartment; flat
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