Flat and Sharp

flat

noun

A level tract of land.
- usage: "the salt flats of Utah"
A shallow box in which seedlings are started.
A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named.
Freight car without permanent sides or roof.
- synonyms: flatcar, flatbed
A deflated pneumatic tire.
- synonyms: flat tire
Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting.
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house.
- synonyms: apartment

adjective

Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another.
- usage: "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
- synonyms: level, plane
Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness.
- usage: "flat computer monitors"
Not modified or restricted by reservations.
- usage: "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"
- synonyms: categoric, categorical, unconditional
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground.
- usage: "found himself lying flat on the floor"
- synonyms: prostrate
Lacking contrast or shading between tones.
Of a musical note. ( lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone)
- usage: "B flat"
Flattened laterally along the whole length (e. G., certain leafstalks or flatfishes.
- synonyms: compressed
Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
- usage: "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
- synonyms: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting.
- usage: "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
- synonyms: bland
Having lost effervescence.
- usage: "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch.
- usage: "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
- synonyms: monotone, monotonic, monotonous
Horizontally level.
- usage: "a flat roof"
Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth.
- usage: "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting"
- synonyms: two-dimensional, 2-dimensional
Not reflecting light; not glossy.
- usage: "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
- synonyms: mat, matt, matte, matted
Commercially inactive.
- usage: "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

adverb

With flat sails.
- usage: "sail flat against the wind"
In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly.
- usage: "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"
- synonyms: directly, straight

(n.) A homaloid space or extension.
(n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
(superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
(n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
(adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
(n.) A floor, loft or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
(v.t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
(v.i.) To fall form the pitch.
(superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
(superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
(v.t.) To render dull, insipid or spiritless; to depress.
(superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
(adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
(superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
(n.) Something broad and flat in form.
(v.t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
(v.i.) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
(n.) The flat part or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
(n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
(superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
(superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
(n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
(n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
(superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
(n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
(superl.) Lying at full length or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
(superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
(a.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
(a.) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.
(a.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix or an infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -e, the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. English term for apartment. A portion of a building designed to serve as a home for a single family group. 2. Convertibles: Earning interest on the date of payment only. General: Having neither a short nor a long position in a stock. Clean. Market: Characterized by horizontal price movement, usually the result of low activity. Equities: To execute without commission or markup.

sharp

(v.t.) To raise above the proper pitch; to elevate the tone of; especially, to raise a half step or semitone, above the natural tone.
(superl.) Steep; precipitous; abrupt; as, a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve.
(v.t.) To sharpen.
(superl.) Cutting in language or import; biting; sarcastic; cruel; harsh; rigorous; severe; as, a sharp rebuke.
(n.) A sharp tone or note.
(superl.) So high as to be out of tune or above true pitch; as, the tone is sharp; that instrument is sharp. Opposed in all these senses to flat.
(n.) A sharp tool or weapon.
(n.) The character [/] used to indicate that the note before which it is placed is to be raised a half step or semitone, in pitch.
(superl.) Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty; as, sharp sand.
(superl.) Eager in pursuit; keen in quest; impatient for gratification; keen; as, a sharp appetite.
(adv.) To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
(superl.) Very trying to the feelings; piercing; keen; severe; painful; distressing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air.
(superl.) High in pitch; acute; as, a sharp note or tone.
(n.) Same as Middlings, 1.
(superl.) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
(superl.) Raised a semitone in pitch; as, C sharp (C/), which is a half step or semitone, higher than C.
(superl.) Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.
(superl.) Of keen perception; quick to discern or distinguish; having nice discrimination; acute; penetrating; sagacious; clever; as, a sharp eye; sharp sight, hearing or judgment.
(superl.) Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded; somewhat pointed or edged; peaked or ridged; as, a sharp hill; sharp features.
(v.i.) To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
(superl.) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact in dealing; shrewd; as, a sharp dealer; a sharp customer.
(v.i.) To sing above the proper pitch.
(adv.) Precisely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp.
(n.) An expert.
(superl.) Uttered in a whisper or with the breath alone, without voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f; surd; nonvocal; aspirated.
(n.) A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.
(n.) A portion of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
(superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

noun

A musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named.
A long thin sewing needle with a sharp point.

adjective

Of something seen or heard. ( clearly defined)
- usage: "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"
- synonyms: crisp
Ending in a sharp point.
- synonyms: acuate, acute, needlelike
Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
- usage: "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
- synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing
Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.
- usage: "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
- synonyms: astute, shrewd
Harsh.
- usage: "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"
- synonyms: sharp-worded, tart
Having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones .
- usage: "a shrill whistle"; "a shrill gaiety"
- synonyms: shrill
Extremely steep.
- usage: "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
- synonyms: abrupt, precipitous
Keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point.
- usage: "a sharp pain"; "sharp winds"
Having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing.
- usage: "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point"
Of a musical note. ( raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone)
- usage: "C sharp"
Very sudden and in great amount or degree.
- usage: "a sharp drop in the stock market"
Quick and forceful.
- usage: "a sharp blow"

adverb

Changing suddenly in direction and degree.
- usage: "the road twists sharply after the light"; "turn sharp left here"; "the visor was acutely peaked"; "her shoes had acutely pointed toes"
- synonyms: sharply, acutely

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