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An area of level ground.

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A note played a 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. ♭♪).

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A flat tyre/tire.

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(in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.

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She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.

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(in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.

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A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.

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The flat part of something:

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A wide, shallow container or pallet.

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a flat of strawberries

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(mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.

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A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.

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A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

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A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.

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A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.

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A flat sheet for use on a bed.

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A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.

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A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.

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A dull fellow; a simpleton.

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(technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.

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Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.

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An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.

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To make a flat call; to call without raising.

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To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

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To fall from the pitch.

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To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

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To make flat; to flatten; to level.

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To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

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An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.

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To beat or strike; pound

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To dash or throw

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To dash, rush

The manufactories are largely on the "flats" along the rivers and on the south side.

The marshes extend along the Swale to Whitstable, whence stretches a low line of clay and sandstone cliffs towards the Isle of Thanet, when they become lofty and grand, extending round the Foreland southward to Pegwell Bay, The coast from Sheppey round to the South Foreland is skirted by numerous flats and sands, the most extensive of which are the Goodwin Sands off Deal.

The viali or boulevards form pleasant residential streets with gardens, and the system of building separate houses for each family (villini) instead of large blocks of flats is becoming more and more general.

The latter is interested in converting the granary into flats.

In many cases the rivers as they approach the main stream break up into numerous branches, or spread their waters over vast flats.

The west coast throughout its whole length is covered to a depth of some miles with mangrove swamps, with only a few isolated stretches of sandy beach, the dim foliage of the mangroves and the hideous mud flats presenting a depressing spectacle.

When such is the case the beds are called " alkali flats."

Corals would now grow luxuriantly in these shallow coastal waters of increasing temperature, forming reefs and extensive coral flats.

As in most continental towns, the custom of living in flats is prevalent in Vienna, where few except the richer nobles occupy an entire house.

Lowland Tokyo, that part of the city covering the flats on both sides of the river Sumida, is intersected by a system of canals.

Most of the suburbs and the city itself are exposed to the southeast winds which, passing over the flats which join the Cape Peninsula to the mainland, reach the city sand-laden.

Red cedar (Cedrilla) abounds in the riverine flats, but the quality is poor and commercially valueless; and oaks are plentiful, but the wood is coarse.

In the case of small and irregular consumers, such as the inhabitants of model dwellings and flats inhabited chiefly by working-class tenants, coin-in-the-slot meters are much employed.

It grows only to a length of 10 in., and is not uncommon in the flats of South and West Australia.

In the lead-mining districts of Derbyshire and the north of England the ore occurs as veins and flats in the Carboniferous Limestone series, whilst in Cornwall the veins traverse clay-slates.

In the town, which is only second to Northwich in this respect, large quantities of salt are raised and conveyed to Liverpool for exportation; being shipped in flats down the Weaver, which has been rendered navigable by an elaborate system of locks.

Modern influences, one of the most marked of which is the widespread erection of vast blocks of residential flats, have swept away much that was reminiscent of the historical connexions of the "old court suburb."

The former constructs its tunnels in the sandy flats near the shore at the Cape, but the latter generally frequent higher ground.

These hills consist of a broken range of sandstone and conglomerate dividing the Bannu plain from the cultivated flats of Dera Ismail Khan.

It consists mainly of grey dreary flats covered with selenite; and a little below the surface, gypsum.

This was the Drake well, on the flats of Oil Creek at Titusville; it was about 70 ft.

In March flower seeds and vegetable seeds may be sown in boxes or flats in the greenhouse, or in residence windows, or near the kitchen stove.

It is a peculiarity of the domestic accommodation of Bremen that the majority of the houses, unlike the custom in most other German towns, where flats prevail, are occupied by a single family only.

The industry is mainly concentrated round two chief centres, Aix-la-Chapelle and Dusseldorf (with the valley of the Wupper), while there are naturally few manufactures in the hilly districts of the south or the marshy flats of the north.

Brisbane is built on a series of hills rising from the river-banks, but some parts of it, such as Woolloongabba and South Brisbane, occupy low-lying flats, which have sometimes been the scene of disastrous floods.

It is easy, then, when the Nile is low, to cut short, deep canals in the river banks, which fill as the flood rises, and carry the precious mud-charged water into these great flats.

When the river rises, these crops, which often form a very important part of the year's produce and are termed Nabari, are still in the ground, and they require water in moderate and regulated quantities, in contradistinction to the wholesale flooding of the flats beyond.

Private houses in these western districts consist chiefly of residential flats, though in the Kasr el-Dubara quarter are many detached residences.

They form indeed excellent pasture-land, while the alluvial flats in the valleys and even some of the lower slopes are fitted for grain and green crops.

There are some low, swampy islands, or mud flats, covered with mangrove thickets, in the lower Guayas river, but they are uninhabited and of no importance.

The town is built on a horseshoeshaped peninsula partly consisting of mud flats, which are spanned by causeways.

The island is covered with low hills rising from flats near the shore to an irregular plateau near the centre.

The deep stream corrodes and cuts down the high ground; but meanwhile alluvial flats are gradually piled up in the shallows.

Such beds, locally known as " alkali flats," are especially numerous in Valencia, Socorro, Dona Ana and Otero counties, and a number of them furnish all the salt needed by the cattle ranges in their vicinity.

The town lies in the midst of orchards and water-meadows, reclaimed from the fens which encircled Glastonbury Tor, a conical height once an island, but now, with the surrounding flats, a peninsula washed on three sides by the river Brue.

There are numerous large expanses of level country, the most notable of these being the plains (cameos) of the Tagus valley, and of Aviz or Benavilla, Beja and Ourique, in Alemtejo; the high plateaux (cimas) of Mogadouro in Traz-os-Montes and Ourem between the Tagus and the upper Sorraia; the highly cultivated lowlands (veigas) of Chaves and Valenta do Minho in the extreme north; and the marshy flats (baixas) along the coast of Alemtejo and the southern shore of the lower Tagus.

Marie, which passes the rapids of St Mary's River; the St Clair Flats, at the north end of Lake St Clair, by which a deeper channel is made through shallow water; and the Portage Lake, in the copper district, which connects that lake with Lake Superior.

The national government constructed the canal at the St Clair Flats in 1871 and contributed land for aid in the construction of that connecting lakes Portage and Superior, which was completed in 1873 and passed under national control in 1891.

Wanstead Flats, adjoining the Park, form another open ground.

Behind the bluffs that form in large part its immediate border its basin is a rolling country, at times sinking into great dead levels like the Yukon flats between Circle City and the Lower Ramparts, some 30,000 sq.

On the Yukon flats it grows in a vast forest impenetrably dense.'

The barren " mud flats," frequently found on the desert floor, result from the drying up of temporary shallow lakes, or playas.

Om the large areas reclaimed from the sea, vast hotels and mansions let in flats have been erected.

In this way the rivers in the delta slowly build themselves up into canals, which every autumn break through or overflow their margins, and leave their silt upon the adjacent flats.

These and the extensive mud flats and deltas at their mouths are often flooded, by which their fertility is increased, though at a heavy cost to the cultivator.

Ilion is a part of the township of German Flats (pop. in 1900, 8663; in 1905, 9489), settled by Palatinate Germans about 1725.

The ore in fine powder is fed in at the top, through a hopper, in a regular thin stream, by a pair of rollers, and in falling lodges on the flats of the bars, forming a talus upon each of the height corresponding to the angle of rest of the material, which is, however, at short intervals removed to lower levels by the arrival of fresh ore from above.

A gas station that fixed flats, a few houses and the store – that was about it.

Dressed simply in a casual, wrap dress and ballet flats, she nonetheless had a body he found beyond appealing.

The commonest examples are the raw sandy gleys associated with sand flats and unripened gleys in marine alluvium and saltmarsh.