American word for the british word flat is

Other forms: flats; flattest; flatted; flatting

A flat is an apartment. It’s called a flat because all the rooms in it are usually on the same floor. The word flat is much more common in British than American English.

Geometrically, something flat is an even, level plane, like Kansas relative to the Rocky Mountains, or the cargo area of a flatbed truck. As an adjective, flat means «less than lively.» A flat soda has no bubbles. If your speech falls flat, no one was excited. If you get mugged you might choose to lie flat on the ground. A flat note is just below the right pitch. And if your cooking is flat, it’s boring.

Definitions of flat

1. adjective

   having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

   “a
   flat desk”

   “skirts sewn with fine
   flat seams”

   synonyms:

   level, plane

   even

   being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)

2. adjective

   horizontally level

   “a
   flat roof”

   Synonyms:

   horizontal

   parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line

3. adjective

   flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

   synonyms:

   compressed

   thin

   of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section

4. adjective

   having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

   “flat computer monitors”

   Synonyms:

   planar, two-dimensional

   involving two dimensions

5. adjective

   stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

   “found himself lying
   flat on the floor”

   synonyms:

   prostrate, repent

   unerect

   not upright in position or posture

6. noun

   a level tract of land

7. noun

   a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

8. noun

   a shallow box in which seedlings are started

9. noun

   freight car without permanent sides or roof

10. noun

    scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

11. “sail
    flat against the wind”

12. adjective

    lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

    “a
    flat joke”

    synonyms:

    bland

    unexciting, unstimulating

    not stimulating

13. adjective

    lacking taste or flavor or tang

14. adjective

    having lost effervescence

    “a
    flat cola”

    Synonyms:

    noneffervescent

    not effervescent

15. adjective

    commercially inactive

    “flat sales for the month”

    “prices remained
    flat”

    “a
    flat market”

    Synonyms:

    inactive

    (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly

16. adjective

    not reflecting light; not glossy

    “flat wall paint”

    synonyms:

    mat, matt, matte, matted

    dull

    emitting or reflecting very little light

17. noun

    a deflated pneumatic tire

18. adjective

    not modified or restricted by reservations

    “a
    flat refusal”

    synonyms:

    categoric, categorical, unconditional

    unqualified

    not limited or restricted

19. adjective

    lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth

    “a
    flat two-dimensional painting”

    synonyms:

    2-dimensional, two-dimensional

    multidimensional

    having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects

20. adjective

    sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

    synonyms:

    monotone, monotonic, monotonous

    unmodulated

    characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume

21. adjective

    lacking contrast or shading between tones

22. adverb

    in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly

    “came out
    flat for less work and more pay”

    synonyms:

    directly, straight

23. adjective

    (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone

24. noun

    a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named