Flat vs Apparent - What's the difference?
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Having no variations in height.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
(music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
(music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
(music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
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.
Uninteresting.
* Coleridge
* Shakespeare
(wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
Absolute.
(slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all.
(of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
(juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
(phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant
(obsolete) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
* Shakespeare
* Marston
So as to be flat.
Bluntly.
Not exceeding.
Completely.
Directly; flatly.
* Herbert
(finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
An area of level ground.
* Francis Bacon
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, title= (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g.'', B?) or in front of the note symbol (''e.g. ??).
(informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
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(in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
(painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
The part of something:
# (swordfighting) The side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
# The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
A wide, shallow container.
(geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
(mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
(obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
* Holmes
(technical theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan or muslin that can be raised as a platform.
(poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without .
To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
(intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
(music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
(dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
(dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
* Barrow
Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
* 1667, (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , ,
Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
* (William Shakespeare), ,
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
* 1785, (Thomas Reid), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man , Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),
* 1848 , , (The History of England from the Accession of James the Second) ,
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As adjectives the difference between flat and apparent
is that flat is having no variations in height while apparent is capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.As an adverb flat
is so as to be flat.As a noun flat
is an area of level ground.As a verb flat
is to make a flat call; to call without raising.flat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flat, from (etyl)Flat] in (Online Etymology Dictionary)flatr (Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from (etyl) [http://ordnet.dk/ods/opslag?opslag=flad&submit=S%F8g Sanskrit, OHG and Greek cognates named.
Alternative forms
* , (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(flatter)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
- A large part of the work is, to me, very flat .
- How weary, stale, flat , and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world.
- The market is flat .
- flat burglary as ever was committed
- A great tobacco taker too, — that's flat .
Synonyms
* (having no variations in altitude) even, planar, plane, smooth, uniform * (deflated) deflated, punctured * (without variations in pitch) monotone * (uninteresting) boring, dull, uninteresting * flabbyAntonyms
* (having no variations in altitude) bumpy, cratered, hilly (of terrain), rough (of a surface), wrinkled (of a surface) * sharp * sharpDerived terms
* flat as a pancake * flatcar * flat-footed * flatly * flatness * flat out * flat rate * flatten * that's flatAdverb
(en adverb)- Spread the tablecloth flat over the table.
- I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat .
- He can run a mile in four minutes flat .
- I am flat broke this month.
- Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.
Synonyms
* (so as to be flat) * (bluntly) bluntly, curtly * (not exceeding) tops * (completely) absolutely, completely, utterlyNoun
(en noun)- Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats . I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent.
- (Raymond)
- Or if you cannnot make a speech, / Because you are a flat .
Antonyms
* (note) sharp * (shoes) high heelsDerived terms
* mudflatVerb
- Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted .
Etymology 2
From 1795, alteration of (etyl) .Synonyms
* (apartment) apartmentDerived terms
* block of flats * flatlet * flatmate * flatterReferences
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----apparent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.
- Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.
- When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.
- What (George Berkeley) calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
- To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.
- This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}