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The worm gear drives the flat gear, naturally, which catches the snail-cam and drives it forward.

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Quick take

a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"

noun

a shallow box in which seedlings are started

noun

a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flat.

noun

a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"

noun

a shallow box in which seedlings are started

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a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

noun

freight car without permanent sides or roof

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a deflated pneumatic tire

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scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

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a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

adjective

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"

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having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors"

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not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

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stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"

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lacking contrast or shading between tones

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(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"

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flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

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lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

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lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

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having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"

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sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"

See also: monotone, monotonic, monotonous

adjective

horizontally level; "a flat roof"

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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"

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not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

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commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

adverb

with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"

adverb

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"

Example sentences

The worm gear drives the flat gear, naturally, which catches the snail-cam and drives it forward.

Watch as much as you want, whenever you want, on whatever device you want for a flat fee.

And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?

To the best of my knowledge, that is just flat out illegal in California.

The execution is also inconsistent - why the book is 3D, but the rest is flat?

Making it flat now allows you to build up, where past versions made you go backwards first, then build the theme the way you wanted.

It's just that it can be a good design without every non-flat design being bad or dishonest.

I find that neo-flat buttons are almost have an underlying hypocrisy.

People have been saying things like "it's a dumb trend", "horrible UX", "so ugly", etc. For a skeleton starter template like this, flat is good.

If this were really true, then you wouldn't need to make the neo-flat buttons change colors when you mouse over them, because it should be obvious that they are links.

Its not like typing on a completely flat surface: each key is raised slightly, so while there isnt any mechanical feedback, it does feel a bit like a keyboard.

[3]* This would allow consumer networks to only download a video once, then serve it up locally within their network to all customers. In-network traffic is almost free for ISP's..All of these options have been flat-out refused.

But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever.

The article makes some great points, but is entirely undermined by Gruber stating that "iOS - and the iPhone in particular - is its leading edge", with "its" referring to flat design.

The idea behind the flat painting movement is that you can discern what was called "optical depth" without using traditional perspective to mimic the depth you see with stereoscopic vision.

The neo-flat movement is based on the idea that you don't need to underline hyperlinks or add perspective based shadows and gradients to distinguish what a button is because you can just use colors alone or make everything a link.

Plenty of Republicans etc. also believe that abortion, or even contraception provided by your health plan, is "absolutely unacceptable", "flat out wrong" and a "backwards mentality".But we live in a democracy, where we need to get along.