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verb
noun
verb
- utter speech sounds
- pronounce as a vowel
- sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel
- express or state clearly
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
- (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- (music) To sing without using words.
- To express with the voice, to utter.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- expel (gases or odors)
- give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
- (transitive, programming, by extension) To produce specific computer code when processed or executed.
- (transitive) To send out or give off.
- (transitive, programming) To result in specific machine instructions or bytecode when compiled.
- (intransitive) To come out, to be sent out or given off.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- turn loose or free from restraint
- (transitive, idiomatic) To free; to release from restraint.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, sometimes followed by with or on) To shout, make a loud sound, or perform a sudden, vehement action; to behave in a raucous, frenzied manner.
- (euphemistic) To break wind.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- bring out of a specific state
- make (clothes) larger
- (informal) Of sound, to emit.
- (transitive) To release.
- To rent out.
- To disclose.
- (of clothing) To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams.
- (Canada, US, intransitive) Of a school: to finish for the day or term, allowing the pupils to go home.
- (transitive) To begin to tell a story.
- To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- express in speech
- put into circulation
- articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
- (obsolete except UK, dialectal) To discharge or send out (something); to eject, to emit.
- To verbally express or report (a desire or emotion, an idea or thought, etc.).
- (figurative) Of a thing: to produce (a noise or sound); to emit.
- (law) To put (currency or other valuable items) into circulation; specifically, to pass off (counterfeit currency, etc.) as legal tender; to use (a forged cheque) as if genuine.
- Sometimes preceded by forth, out, etc.: to produce (a cry, speech, or other sounds) with the voice.
- Of words, etc.: to be spoken.
- (reflexive) To express (oneself) in speech or writing.
- (figurative) To pass off (something fake) as a genuine item.
- To speak.
adj
- complete and absolute
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- (originally Scotland) Of decisions, replies, etc.: made in an unconditional or unqualified manner; decisive, definite.
- To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete, total, unconditional.
- (rare) Of a substance: pure, unmixed.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
- The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- The use of speech to express an idea
- (orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
- (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
- (orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
- Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
- (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
- (biology) The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
verb
- utter a characteristic sound
- proclaim or announce in public
- shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
- bring into a particular state by crying
- utter a sudden loud cry
- demand immediate action
- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
- (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.
- (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
- (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
noun
- a fit of weeping
- a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)
- the characteristic utterance of an animal
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- a slogan used to rally support for a cause
- A clamour or outcry.
- A shout or scream.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
- A desperate or urgent request.
- (collectively) A group of hounds.
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
adj
noun
verb
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- make noise as if chattering away
- cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- click repeatedly or uncontrollably
noun
- The sound of talking.
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (Internet) A user of livestream chat.
- One who chats.
- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- noisy talk
noun
- a speech sound that is not a vowel
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
- (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
adj
noun
- A sound made by the voice; vocalization.
- (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
- (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
- (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
- (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
- (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
- the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color
verb
noun
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
verb
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
noun
- (uncountable) The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking.
- (countable) The act of pronouncing or uttering a vocable.
- (countable) The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
- the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
- the manner in which someone utters a word
noun
- (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
- The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
- The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
- Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
- (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- (music) The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
- (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
- (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
- the sound made by a dog
- a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
- a noise resembling the bark of a dog
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- (transitive) To speak sharply.
- To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
- (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
- To girdle.
- remove the bark of a tree
- tan (a skin) with bark tannins
- make barking sounds
- cover with bark
- speak in an unfriendly tone
noun
verb
adj
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- full of the sound of voices
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Synonym of expressive.
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- (phonetics) Synonym of vocalic.
- (music) Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Full of voices.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- (anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
noun
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
- (music) A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- (acting) A musical performance involving singing.
- (Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
- a short musical composition with words
- music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- having lost effervescence
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- horizontally level
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- commercially inactive
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- (not comparable, commerce) Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- (of colours) Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism) Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
- (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- (algebraic geometry, scheme theory, of a morphism of schemes) Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
- (authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
- (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (slang) Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Not diphthongal; without variation in height or backness.
- (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (homological algebra, of a module) Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (of measurements of time) Exact.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Having no variations in height.
- (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such 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".
- (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (of coffee) Having little froth and little milk.
- (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
noun
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a level tract of land
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- (American football) The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
- (rail transport) A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
- (publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
- (technical, theatre, stagecraft) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
- (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- (horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- (postal) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- (music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/flat tire.
- (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- (optics) A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- Ellipsis of flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- The most prominent flat part of something.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- (Australia, horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- (gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- (in the phrase 'the flat') Level ground in general.
- (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- (US) Ellipsis of flat water (“nonfizzy drinking water”).
- (chiefly British, New England, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, archaic elsewhere) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent
- (Canadian Prairies, British Columbia) A 24-case of beer.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- (rail transport, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
adv
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
- Directly; flatly.
- (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Completely.
- (of accurately measured timings) Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
- (of a sentence) Without parole.
verb
- (transitive) To dash or throw
- (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
- (intransitive) To dash, rush
- (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
- (printing) Synonym of monochrome.
- (mathematics) Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
noun
verb
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- Of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.
- (mathematics) Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
- Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.
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adj
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verb
noun
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- utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
- (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
- (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
- (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
- (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).
- (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
- (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- to talk foolishly
noun
- a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
- (orthography) A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w (rarely), y (sometimes).
- (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
verb
verb
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- throw with great effort
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
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adj
- uttered without voice
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
- being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
- Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
- (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].
- (figurative) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
verb
- utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
- free from harm or evil
- to surrender someone or something to another
- carry out or perform
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- hand over to the authorities of another country
- deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
- bring to a destination, make a delivery
- cause to be born
- save from sins
- relinquish possession or control over
- pass down
- To free from or disburden of anything.
- (intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.
- To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
- To set free from restraint or danger.
- To give birth to.
- To discover; to show.
- To assist in the birth of.
- To bring or transport something to its destination.
- (medicine) To administer a drug.
- To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.
adj
noun
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- studies of the rules for forming admissible words
- the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
- (countable) The form and structure of something.
- (mathematics) Mathematical morphology.
- (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
- (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
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- (countable, uncountable) Soft indistinct speech.
- a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
- (cardiology, medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces a noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.
- (countable, uncountable) Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
- A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent.
- an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves
- a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
- a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant
verb
noun
- Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
- (clinical psychology, autism) The involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.
- An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
- an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
- (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
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- make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
- talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
- To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
- (transitive, intransitive) To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
- To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
noun
noun
noun
- the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
- The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- The use of speech to express an idea
- (orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
- (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
- (orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
- Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
- (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
- (biology) The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
noun
- a speech sound that is not a vowel
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
- (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
adj
noun
- A sound made by the voice; vocalization.
- (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
- (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
- (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
- (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
- (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
- the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color
verb
noun
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
verb
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
noun
- (uncountable) The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking.
- (countable) The act of pronouncing or uttering a vocable.
- (countable) The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
- the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
- the manner in which someone utters a word
noun
- (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
- The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
- The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
- Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
- (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- (music) The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
- (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
- (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
- the sound made by a dog
- a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
- a noise resembling the bark of a dog
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- (transitive) To speak sharply.
- To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
- (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
- To girdle.
- remove the bark of a tree
- tan (a skin) with bark tannins
- make barking sounds
- cover with bark
- speak in an unfriendly tone
verb
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- make noise as if chattering away
- cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- click repeatedly or uncontrollably
noun
- The sound of talking.
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (Internet) A user of livestream chat.
- One who chats.
- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- noisy talk
noun
verb
noun
adj
intj
verb
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
- (printing) Synonym of monochrome.
- (mathematics) Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
- (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
- (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
- (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
- (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).
- (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
- (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- to talk foolishly
noun
- a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
- (orthography) A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w (rarely), y (sometimes).
- (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
verb
noun
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- studies of the rules for forming admissible words
- the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
- (countable) The form and structure of something.
- (mathematics) Mathematical morphology.
- (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
- (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Soft indistinct speech.
- a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
- (cardiology, medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces a noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.
- (countable, uncountable) Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
- A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent.
- an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves
- a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
- a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant
verb
noun
- Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
- (clinical psychology, autism) The involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.
- An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
- an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
- (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
noun
noun
adj
verb
noun
verb
- make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
- talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
- To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
- (transitive, intransitive) To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
- To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
verb
noun
verb
- utter speech sounds
- pronounce as a vowel
- sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel
- express or state clearly
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
- (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- (music) To sing without using words.
- To express with the voice, to utter.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- expel (gases or odors)
- give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
- (transitive, programming, by extension) To produce specific computer code when processed or executed.
- (transitive) To send out or give off.
- (transitive, programming) To result in specific machine instructions or bytecode when compiled.
- (intransitive) To come out, to be sent out or given off.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- turn loose or free from restraint
- (transitive, idiomatic) To free; to release from restraint.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, sometimes followed by with or on) To shout, make a loud sound, or perform a sudden, vehement action; to behave in a raucous, frenzied manner.
- (euphemistic) To break wind.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- bring out of a specific state
- make (clothes) larger
- (informal) Of sound, to emit.
- (transitive) To release.
- To rent out.
- To disclose.
- (of clothing) To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams.
- (Canada, US, intransitive) Of a school: to finish for the day or term, allowing the pupils to go home.
- (transitive) To begin to tell a story.
- To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls.
verb
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- express in speech
- put into circulation
- articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
- (obsolete except UK, dialectal) To discharge or send out (something); to eject, to emit.
- To verbally express or report (a desire or emotion, an idea or thought, etc.).
- (figurative) Of a thing: to produce (a noise or sound); to emit.
- (law) To put (currency or other valuable items) into circulation; specifically, to pass off (counterfeit currency, etc.) as legal tender; to use (a forged cheque) as if genuine.
- Sometimes preceded by forth, out, etc.: to produce (a cry, speech, or other sounds) with the voice.
- Of words, etc.: to be spoken.
- (reflexive) To express (oneself) in speech or writing.
- (figurative) To pass off (something fake) as a genuine item.
- To speak.
adj
- complete and absolute
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- (originally Scotland) Of decisions, replies, etc.: made in an unconditional or unqualified manner; decisive, definite.
- To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete, total, unconditional.
- (rare) Of a substance: pure, unmixed.
noun
verb
- utter a characteristic sound
- proclaim or announce in public
- shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
- bring into a particular state by crying
- utter a sudden loud cry
- demand immediate action
- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
- (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.
- (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
- (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
noun
- a fit of weeping
- a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)
- the characteristic utterance of an animal
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- a slogan used to rally support for a cause
- A clamour or outcry.
- A shout or scream.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
- A desperate or urgent request.
- (collectively) A group of hounds.
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
verb
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- make noise as if chattering away
- cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- click repeatedly or uncontrollably
noun
- The sound of talking.
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (Internet) A user of livestream chat.
- One who chats.
- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- noisy talk
noun
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
verb
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
verb
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- throw with great effort
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
verb
- utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
- free from harm or evil
- to surrender someone or something to another
- carry out or perform
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- hand over to the authorities of another country
- deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
- bring to a destination, make a delivery
- cause to be born
- save from sins
- relinquish possession or control over
- pass down
- To free from or disburden of anything.
- (intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.
- To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
- To set free from restraint or danger.
- To give birth to.
- To discover; to show.
- To assist in the birth of.
- To bring or transport something to its destination.
- (medicine) To administer a drug.
- To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.
adj
noun
verb
- utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
- (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
- (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
- (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
- (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).
- (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
- (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- to talk foolishly
adj
noun
adj
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- full of the sound of voices
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Synonym of expressive.
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- (phonetics) Synonym of vocalic.
- (music) Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Full of voices.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- (anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
noun
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
- (music) A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- (acting) A musical performance involving singing.
- (Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
- a short musical composition with words
- music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- having lost effervescence
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- horizontally level
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- commercially inactive
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- (not comparable, commerce) Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- (of colours) Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism) Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
- (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- (algebraic geometry, scheme theory, of a morphism of schemes) Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
- (authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
- (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (slang) Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Not diphthongal; without variation in height or backness.
- (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (homological algebra, of a module) Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (of measurements of time) Exact.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Having no variations in height.
- (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such 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".
- (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (of coffee) Having little froth and little milk.
- (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
noun
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a level tract of land
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- (American football) The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
- (rail transport) A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
- (publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
- (technical, theatre, stagecraft) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
- (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- (horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- (postal) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- (music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/flat tire.
- (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- (optics) A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- Ellipsis of flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- The most prominent flat part of something.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- (Australia, horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- (gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- (in the phrase 'the flat') Level ground in general.
- (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- (US) Ellipsis of flat water (“nonfizzy drinking water”).
- (chiefly British, New England, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, archaic elsewhere) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent
- (Canadian Prairies, British Columbia) A 24-case of beer.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- (rail transport, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
adv
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
- Directly; flatly.
- (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Completely.
- (of accurately measured timings) Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
- (of a sentence) Without parole.
verb
- (transitive) To dash or throw
- (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
- (intransitive) To dash, rush
- (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
- (printing) Synonym of monochrome.
- (mathematics) Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
noun
verb
adj
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- Of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.
- (mathematics) Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
- Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.
adj
- uttered without voice
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
- being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
- Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
- (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].
- (figurative) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.