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noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The quality or state of being coarse
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- sharing of common attributes
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- the state of being that is commonly observed
- The quality of being common in the sense of vulgar, coarse or low class.
- The quality of being common in the sense of ordinary, usual or mundane.
adj
- tastelessly showy
- embarrassingly stingy
- relatively low in price or charging low prices
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhanded or unfair.
- (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- Low or reduced in price.
- Of poor quality.
adj
noun
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
adj
noun
adj
- tastelessly showy
- characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
- (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly
- (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
- (of a sound) Of great intensity.
- (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
- (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
- (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
adv
noun
adj
- tastelessly showy
- like or relating to a prostitute
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
- (law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
adj
noun
noun
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- a price below the standard price
- Synonym of shoddiness.
- (of a person) The state or character trait of being cheap (stingy).
- (of a product) The state or characteristic of being cheap (whether inexpensive, poorly made, or both).
- Synonym of inexpensiveness; affordability.
noun
verb
noun
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
- (uncountable, British) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
- Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).
- (slang) A tattoo.
- (uncountable, British) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
- Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.
- Clipping of tatting.
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Lacking tact or taste.
- Lacking concealing elements.
- In a natural, untreated state.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
- Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
- (statistics) Not adjusted or further analyzed.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- not refined or processed
- not carefully or expertly made
- not processed or subjected to analysis
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
adj
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless
- elaborately or excessively ornamented
- Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
- Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.
- (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
noun
adj
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless
- displaying brilliance and virtuosity
- (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
- superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
- Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
- (informal, chiefly of a literary work) Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).
- (sometimes derogatory) Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- 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
- 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
noun
verb
adj
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of low or inferior quality or value
- to be expected; standard
- commonly encountered
- common to or shared by two or more parties
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
- (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
- (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
- Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
noun
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
- The people; the community.
- Mutual good, shared by more than one.
- (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The quality or state of being coarse
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- sharing of common attributes
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- the state of being that is commonly observed
- The quality of being common in the sense of vulgar, coarse or low class.
- The quality of being common in the sense of ordinary, usual or mundane.
noun
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- a price below the standard price
- Synonym of shoddiness.
- (of a person) The state or character trait of being cheap (stingy).
- (of a product) The state or characteristic of being cheap (whether inexpensive, poorly made, or both).
- Synonym of inexpensiveness; affordability.
noun
verb
noun
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
- (uncountable, British) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
- Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).
- (slang) A tattoo.
- (uncountable, British) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
- Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.
- Clipping of tatting.
verb
adj
- tastelessly showy
- embarrassingly stingy
- relatively low in price or charging low prices
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhanded or unfair.
- (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- Low or reduced in price.
- Of poor quality.
adj
noun
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
verb
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
adj
noun
adj
- tastelessly showy
- characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
- (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly
- (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.
- (of a sound) Of great intensity.
- (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
- (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
- (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
adv
noun
adj
- tastelessly showy
- like or relating to a prostitute
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
- (law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
adj
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Lacking tact or taste.
- Lacking concealing elements.
- In a natural, untreated state.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
- Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
- (statistics) Not adjusted or further analyzed.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- not refined or processed
- not carefully or expertly made
- not processed or subjected to analysis
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
adj
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless
- elaborately or excessively ornamented
- Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
- Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.
- (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
noun
adj
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless
- displaying brilliance and virtuosity
- (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
- superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
- Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
- (informal, chiefly of a literary work) Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).
- (sometimes derogatory) Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- 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
- 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.
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noun
verb
adj
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of low or inferior quality or value
- to be expected; standard
- commonly encountered
- common to or shared by two or more parties
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
- (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
- (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
- Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
noun
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
- The people; the community.
- Mutual good, shared by more than one.
- (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.