Flat
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To fall form the pitch.
(2): ( v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
(3): ( a.) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; - said of a club.
(4): ( a.) 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.
(5): ( a.) Flattening at the ends; - said of certain fruits.
(6): ( n.) 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.
(7): ( superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
(8): ( superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
(9): ( v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
(10): ( v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
(11): ( v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
(12): ( superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
(13): ( superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
(14): ( n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
(15): ( n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
(16): ( n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
(17): ( n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
(18): ( n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
(19): ( n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(20): ( n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(21): ( n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
(22): ( n.) Something broad and flat in form
(23): ( n.) 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.
(24): ( superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
(25): ( adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
(26): ( adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
(27): ( superl.) Sonant; vocal; - applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
(28): ( n.) A homaloid space or extension.
(29): ( n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
(30): ( superl.) 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.
(31): ( superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
(32): ( superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
(33): ( superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
King James Dictionary [2]
Flat, a. L. latus, broad Gr. Eng. blade.
1. Having an even surface, without risings or indentures, hills or valleys as flat land. 2. Horizontal level without inclination as a flat roof or with a moderate inclination or slope for we often apply the word to the roof of a house that is not steep, though inclined. 3. Prostrate lying the whole length on the ground. He fell or lay flat on the ground. 4. Not elevated or erect fallen.
Cease t'admire, and beauty's plumes fall flat.
5. Level with the ground totally fallen.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat.
6. In painting, wanting relief or prominence of the figures. 7. Tasteless stale vapid insipid dead as fruit flat to the taste. 8. Dull unanimated frigid without point or spirit applied to discourses and compositions. The sermon was very flat. 9. Depressed spiritless dejected.
I feel - my hopes all flat.
10. Unpleasing not affording gratification.
How flat and insipid are all the pleasures of this life!
11. Peremptory absolute positive downright. He gave the petitioner a flat denial.
Thus repulsed, our final hope is flat despair.
12. Not sharp or shrill not acute as a flat sound. 13. Low, as the prices of goods or dull, as sales.
Flat, n.
1. A level or extended plain. In America, it is applied particularly to low ground or meadow that is level, but it denotes any land of even surface and of some extent. 2. A level ground lying at a small depth under the surface of water a shoal a shallow a strand a sand bank under water. 3. The broad side of a blade. 4. Depression of thought or language. 5. A surface without relief or prominences. 6. In music, a mark of depression in sound. A flat denotes a fall or depression of half a tone. 7. A boat, broad and flat-bottomed. A flat-bottomed boat is constructed for conveying passengers or troops, horses, carriages and baggage.
1. To level to depress to lay smooth or even to make broad and smooth to flatten. 2. To make vapid or tasteless. 3. To make dull or unanimated.
1. To grow flat to fall to an even surface. 2. To become insipid, or dull and unanimated.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Leviticus 21:18 (c) The nose is the organ of discernment. With the nose we may tell whether a substance is spoiled or fresh, whether it is old or new, whether it is alive or dead. If the nose is broken and mashed flat, then this power of discernment is obscured or is absent. So it is in the Christian life. That one who is unable to distinguish between what is from God and what is from Satan, what is right in the sight of God, and what is unscriptural, what is true and what is false, cannot be a servant of God, for he would not know GOD's truth from Satan's deceiving lies.
