English-French translations for flat

• bémol
• à plat
  Avez-vous un portable, votre batterie est-elle à plat? Indeed, do you have a mobile phone or is your battery flat?
  La seule que j'ai racontée, et qui ferait rire n'importe qui en Tchéquie, est tombée à plat. Peu importe. The one joke I did tell, which everyone at home would laugh at, fell flat.
  L’Europe est toujours en tête, mais Galileo ne peut pas se permettre de tomber à plat dans sa phase de mise en œuvre. Europe is still ahead, but Galileo cannot afford to fall flat on its face in the implementation stage.
• plat
  L'ensemble est bien trop plat. The whole thing is far too flat.
  Avez-vous un portable, votre batterie est-elle à plat? Indeed, do you have a mobile phone or is your battery flat?
  La seule que j'ai racontée, et qui ferait rire n'importe qui en Tchéquie, est tombée à plat. Peu importe. The one joke I did tell, which everyone at home would laugh at, fell flat.
• appartement
  Des appartements modernes ont été construits et leur ont été donnés, des appartements que les autres citoyens doivent acheter. Modern flats have been built and given to them, the same which other people have to buy.
  Cela coûtera plus de 40 000 euros par appartement, avec un remboursement sur 25 ans. This would cost in excess of 40 000 euros per flat, with a payback period of 25 years.
  Elle a été abattue chez elle, dans l'ascenseur de son immeuble d'appartements. She was shot down at home, in the lift of her block of flats.
• bas
  Dès lors, avec les bas tarifs, avec les connexions à large bande, le problème des coûts devient de moins en moins important par rapport aux quelques secondes que requiert la connexion. Therefore, with flat rates and broad band connections, even the cost problem of connecting for a few seconds is becoming less important.
  Aujourd’hui, le forage de tunnels se fait même sous les terrains plats composés de sols tourbeux meubles et détrempés, comme aux Pays-Bas. These days, tunnel piping is inserted even under flat land consisting of soft, waterlogged peaty soil, as is the case in the Netherlands.
• crevé
• dégonflé
• ennuyeux
• grave
• mât
• pile
  En permettant le remplacement des piles, nous pouvons éviter que les consommateurs ne jettent des appareils en parfait état parce que les piles sont usagées. By replacing the battery, we can prevent consumers from having to dispose of perfectly good appliances because the battery is flat.
• plate
  La ligne est presque plate, si elle ne l'est pas déjà. We are nearly on the flat line, if not already there.
  Les distributeurs automatiques ne réagissent pas à la face plate de la pièce. Slot machines do not react to the flat surface of the coin.
  Certaines personnes croient encore que la terre est plate, mais même aux États-Unis, l'idée n'est plus prise au sérieux. Some people still think that the world is flat, but even in the United States that is not taken seriously any more.

Definition of flat

• Having no variations in height
• Without variations in pitch
• Lowered by one semitone
• Deflated, especially because of a puncture
• With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles
• Unable to emit power; dead
• Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring
• Absolute; downright; peremptory
• sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp consonant
• Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft
• Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional
• Fixed; unvarying
• So as to be flat
• Bluntly
• Not exceeding
• Completely
• Directly; flatly
• Without allowance for accrued interest
• An area of level ground
• A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note or in front of the note symbol (''e.g.'♭♪
• A type of ladiesshoes with very low heels
• A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes
• The #Adjective|flat part of something
• A wide, shallow container or pallet
• A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes
• A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught
• A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned
• A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions
• A dull fellow; a simpleton
• 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
• An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design
• To make a flat call; to call without raise#Verb|raising
• To fall from the pitch
• To make flat; to flatten; to level
• To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress
• An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room
• To beat or strike; pound
• To dash, rush

Synonyms

• puncture

Examples

• The land around here is flat
• That girl is completely flat on both sides
• Your A string is too flat.
• The party was a bit flat
• The market is flat.
• The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting.
• His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results
• Im not going to the party and thats flat
• Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, etc. are from Old English.
• The author added a chapter to flesh out the books flatter characters
• a flat fee; flat rates; a flat fare on public transport
• 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.
• She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels
• a flat of strawberries

Related words

• B-flat
• E-flat
• flatulence
• inflation
• A-flat
• flatfish
• flatter
• hyperinflation
• flatware