flats is a form of:
Flat
noun
- 1.
- (the wide part, level land, plain, swamp, the tone a half step below the natural tone, B flat, lowlying sometimes flooded, tract of land, a note a sometimes, below the natural, the symbols for this) flat of a stone ផ្នែករាបស្មើរ, flat out ធ្វើការខ្លាំង, flat price តម្លៃដូចៗគ្នា, flat of the hand បាត, down in the flat ដីដែលរាប, car has a flat ឡានបែកកង
- 2.
- (set of rooms, usually on one floor, as a residence) ផ្ទះល្វែង
- 3.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ផ្ទះល្វែង
adjective — comparative: flatter ; superative flattest
- 1.
- (level, spread out, smooth, downright, dull, lifeless, evenly spread out, not deep, not changing, absolute) flat land ដែលរាប, ដែលរាបស្មើរ (ថេរ) / flat on the ground ដែលជាប់ទៅនឹងដី, flat tire ដែលធូរឥតខ្យល់ (កង់ឡាន ។ល។) បែក, flat taste ដែលគ្មានជាតិ, flat fish ដែលសំប៉ែត, flat denial យ៉ាងដាច់ខាត, flat pitch ដែលទាប (ជាងកម្រិតដែលបានកំណត់)
Example: The land was as flat as a pancake.
adverb
- 1.
- (in a manner below a pitch) lay it flat ផ្ដេក, fall flat សំប៉ាត, in three seconds flat តែប៉ុណ្ណោះ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- 3.
- Something broad and flat in form
- 4.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- 5.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- 6.
- A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
- 7.
- A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
- 8.
- The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
- 9.
- A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
- 10.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- 11.
- A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
- 12.
- A homaloid space or extension.
adjective — comparative: flatter ; superative flattest
- 1.
- Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
- 2.
- Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
- 3.
- 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.
- 4.
- Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
- 5.
- Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
- 6.
- Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
- 7.
- Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
- 8.
- Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
- 9.
- Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
- 10.
- Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
- 11.
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.
- 12.
- 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.
- 13.
- Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
verb
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To fall form the pitch.
adverb
- 1.
- In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
- 2.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- 1.
- even, horizontal, level, low, plane, smooth
- 2.
- boring, pointless, prosaic, tedious
- 3.
- dull, insipid, stale, tasteless, unsavory, vapid
- 4.
- absolute, down right, positive, unqualified