Flat vs Unit - What's the difference?
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Having no variations in height.
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, 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
(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The number one.
An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
(military, informal) A member of a military organization.
(US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organizationJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). .
(US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
(US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
(US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
(algebra) An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1R of a ring.)
(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
(UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
(Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
For each unit.
(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
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Unit is a synonym of flat.
As adjectives the difference between flat and unit
is that flat is having no variations in height while unit is for each unit.As nouns the difference between flat and unit
is that flat is an area of level ground while unit is a standard measure of a quantity.As an adverb flat
is so as to be flat.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.}}
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- 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 ----unit
English
(Unit)Noun
(en noun)- The centimetre is a unit of length.
- This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
- He was a member of a special police unit .
- The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units .'' (''i.e., 20 tanks )
- We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
- (Camden)
Synonyms
* (identity element) identity element, unit elementAdjective
(-)- We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
- Consider the following time sequence
- where is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval independent of .