flats

1. An area of level ground.
2. A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
3. A flat tyre/tire.
4. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.

   She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.

5. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
6. A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
7. The flat part of something:
8. A wide, shallow container or pallet.

   a flat of strawberries

9. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
10. A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
11. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
12. A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
13. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
14. A flat sheet for use on a bed.
15. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
16. A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
17. A dull fellow; a simpleton.
18. (technical, theatre) 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.
19. Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
20. An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.

1. To make a flat call; to call without raising.
2. To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
3. To fall from the pitch.
4. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
5. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
6. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

noun

An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.

1. To beat or strike; pound
2. To dash or throw
3. To dash, rush