English English Dictionary

flat in English:

1. flat

Before forks and chopsticks, people usually ate food with a piece of flat bread.

[flat] flat

It is fairly safe to say that the family bound for Australia, or wherever it may be, has in its mind a vision of a nice house, or a flat, with maybe a bit of garden.

Shurrup! Don't make such a fuss over a little headache. I'm flat out of magical power - this is all your fault!

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."

I like this flat. The location is good, and besides, rent is not very high.

Did you ever try keeping your flat completely free from dust?

A warm, lazy breeze wafts across the flat, endless fields.

When the shooting died down a bit, Daddy ran over to our flat and brought us back some sandwiches.

Some clarinetists use clarinets tuned to A instead of B flat in passages which would otherwise be written in unusual keys.

I can't afford to buy my own flat, but I'm thinking of taking out a loan.

Why do you pay so much for the flat? This is some special kind of mildew on these walls?

I like to perform magic tricks for kids, but they sometimes fall flat.

When the chickens are flat as pancakes, then again the tractor must have been faster than them.

2. shoes

Where're the shoes?

The police searched that house to be sure the stolen shoes were not there.

Before buying shoes, you should try them on.

I was surprised at how expensive the shoes were.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Earlier, as I was walking down the sidewalk, a car drove by and splashed water on me. Look at this! My skirt and shoes are all muddy.

After polishing his shoes, Tom brushed his teeth and combed his hair.

My children wear out their shoes quickly.

All this walking is killing the soles of my feet and my toes. I wonder if I have the right size shoes.

If I tried to wear shoes with heels that high, I'd sprain my ankle.

The first thing he did was to untie his shoelaces and take his shoes off.

While she was running after the naughty boy, one of her shoes came off.

Tom buys new shoes whenever he can find a pair that fit.

My sister washes her shoes every Sunday.

Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive.

English word "flat"(shoes) occurs in sets:

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3. digs

Sergei was allowed to move out into shared digs

English word "flat"(digs) occurs in sets:

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4. apartment

We rented an apartment.

There have been a lot of complaints in the last few days about the amount of noise coming from your apartment.

It's a small noisy apartment, but it's where I live and I call it home.

I am staying with my uncle for the time being, but later I will move to a small apartment.

Do you know of an apartment I can rent that allows pets?

When I visited their apartment, the couple was right in the middle of an argument.

Burglars broke into our apartment and stole my wife's fur coat.

I'm not a Muslim and so I have no obligation to observe the fast but as long as I'm living in the same apartment having consideration for such a custom is important.

Filiberto lives in a very large apartment in a city we're not familiar with.

I pricked up my ears when I heard of the available apartment.

The walls of this apartment are weather-beaten after many years of wind and rain.

Every wall of his apartment is covered from floor to ceiling with books.

On weekdays there are enough parking spots free that you should be able to get one close to my apartment.

After his wedding, Alain left his small, moldy apartment and led an extravagant life.

After being out in the wind and rain for years and years the walls of this apartment building are weather-beaten and brittle.

5. monotonous voice

English word "flat"(monotonous voice) occurs in sets:

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6. monotonous

My life is monotonous.

Listening practice tends to be monotonous.

I'm tired of the monotonous life.

His monotonous voice made me feel sleepy.

monotonous work

Spending nine hours a day packing frozen chicken is the most monotonous work I\'ve ever done.

He has a monotonous factory job.

This music is very monotonous and boring.

The speech was a little monotonous.

Why do physicists converge? Because they're monotonous and narrow.

This story is rather monotonous.

He seems to be oppressed by his monotonous daily life.

7. used after the name of a note to mean a note a semitone lower

English word "flat"(used after the name of a note to mean a note a semitone lower) occurs in sets:

READING MUSIC

8. having a straight level surface without waves

English word "flat"(having a straight level surface without waves) occurs in sets:

definicje cill

9. it has a level surface without curves

10. level

Governments usually resort to price control when inflation has reached a certain level.

Hospital was leveled.

Everyone knows on one level or another what is right and what is wrong; some pretend they don't.

Certainly there are inequalities in level of education even within a generation, but there have been no visible inequities between machines and materials in recent years.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilisation than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Essentially it's a one-to-one match, but the content of that match is a level so high as to be unthinkable to an ordinary person.

First of all, the level of the ocean could rise, because ocean water expands as it grows warmer.

On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.

It's very easy to drink potato shochu now that the potato-like smell has been reduced to a low level through use of the latest biotechnology.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency upped the level of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from level 5 to level 7.

The Department of Homeland Security's primary function is the prevention of terrorist attacks occurring within America and, in the extreme case of an attack happening, holding losses to the smallest possible level and swiftly carrying out restoration.

He sees any easiness as a threat to his masculinity, so he always starts games on hard mode and ends up stuck on the first level for days.

On a fundamental level, the 12 forms of the Chinese zodiac are related to animal worship.

It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).

11. still

I'm still sleepy.

He turned the bottle upside down and shook it, but still the honey wouldn't come out.

I have tried every diet that has ever been published and I still haven't lost weight.

I just started learning flower arrangement last month, so I'm still a beginner.

No matter how much you try to convince people that chocolate is vanilla, it'll still be chocolate, even though you may manage to convince yourself and a few others that it's vanilla.

I never for a moment imagined that I would still be doing this kind of thing at my age.

If my mother had still been alive, she would have helped me at that time.

It is impossible for a growing child to keep still for an hour.

Although I have studied English at school for the past six years, I'm still not good at speaking it.

I'd still be spinning my wheels if I hadn't gotten that scholarship.

I was just wondering if Tom could possibly still be at school.

Despite Trang's constant affirmations of love, Spenser is still afraid someday she will fall out of love with him.

I thought doing this would be easy, but we've been working all day and we're still not finished.

In some areas of the world, you can still get sued if you slander or libel a deceased person.

there is no wind outside. It's very still.

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