Flats

Definition: Flats

Flats

Noun

1. Footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a flat heel).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flats" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Industry

Mining

Post & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Flats

Crosswords: Flats

People have flats at three in the morning (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city (Goodfellas; writing credit: Nicholas Pileggi)

Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959)

Secret of Outlaw Flats (1953)

McFadden's Flats (1935)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Death Flats (reference)

• Floor Plan 2 the Great Salt Flats (reference)

• Fly Fishing the Texas Coast: Backcountry Flats to Blue Water (reference)

• Footrot flats (reference)

• Making a Real Killing : Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fly Fishing Video Magazine Vol.57 Carp On The Flats of Eastern Washington (reference)

• Beast of Yucca Flats (reference)

• The Beast of Yucca Flats (reference)

• Zambia Safari - The Luangwa Valley & Kafue Flats (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Pious Flats (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Alaska brown bear on tide flats. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge looking across the tidal flats towards St. Petersburg. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Tidal flats exposed by an early morning low tide. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Minnesota flats where the ore was crushed, note Redding California in the background. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Manton Keswick's Reservoir near Redding, California. Ore loading facility, Iron Mountain. The grey area by the concrete wall is spilled ore. Ore from Iron Mountain Mine was ground up at Minnesota Flats mill and carried over the mountains to wading facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Tidal flats in estuaries are important foraging areas for shorebirds, including these dowitchers which use their long bills to probe the mud for worms and other invertebrates. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hermissenda, Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety of habitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings. Its body is up to 80 mm long. Its dorsal surface has a single orange stripe and bright "electric blue lines, but otherwise is variable in color. Kodiak to Baja California. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Closeup of Palythoa sp. A softcoral common on reef flats in Hawaii. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

At the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's Big Flats (New York) Plant Materials Center, scientists are excavating eastern gamagrass roots for study. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Cache in Yukon Flats NWR. Credit: Lisa Holzapfel.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

On average, the HDB builds some 30,000 flats annually. (references)

These flats are organized into "estates" and "precincts". (references)

The terrain is mostly sand desert, barren mountains, and salt flats. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Major hotels are facing growing competition from the so-called flats. (references)

Brazil

If rated, these flats would be classified as either 3 or 4 star hotels. (references)

Brazil

Moreover, the market successfully launched a new category of hotels locally known as "flats." The flats are basically small apartments - ranging from studios to two-bedroom accommodations - which offer limited services only. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

In September the provincial cabinet secretary for safety and security began an investigation into the killings of 13 UDM members since 1998, primarily in the Cape Flats areas of Nyanga and Philippi. (references)

South Africa

The SAIRR reported that gang violence was worsening in the Cape Flats areas around Cape Town and elsewhere in the Western Cape; however, there were fewer incidents in the province than in the period prior to late 2000. A vigilante group called Mapogo A Mathamaga has grown in membership and has opened offices in at least nine cities, including Pretoria. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

During the summer of 2000, laws on the tenancy of flats were amended to ease administrative procedures for evicting squatters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "flats": across flats ♦ big Flats ♦ big Flats Airport ♦ block of flats ♦ block of service flats ♦ Burlington Flats ♦ exchange of flats ♦ Grizzly Flats ♦ Piney Flats ♦ salt flats ♦ scheme of a block of flats ♦ Smithville Flats ♦ solid block of flats ♦ width across flats. Additional references.

Beginning with "flats": flats-for.

Ending with "flats": mud-flats.

Bulgarian 

обувки с ниски токове, жилищен дом. (various references)

Chinese 

舱内甲板. (various references)

Czech

obytný dùm (apartment building, block of flats, dwelling house). (various references)

Danish

sletteland (plain), slette (plain). (various references)

Dutch

vlakte (plain), platte walserijprodukten, platstaal (flat products), plat staafstaal, plaatstaal (sheet, sheet iron, sheet plate, steel plate, steel sheet). (various references)

Finnish

tasanko (flat country, plain, plateau). (various references)

French

fers plats, plaine, méplats, grandes enveloppes, chapeaux marchants, acier plat (flat products). (various references)

German

Wohnungen (apartments, habitations, housing, tenements), Flächen (areas, surfaces). (various references)

Greek 

κάμπος (plain), πεδιάδα (champaign, flat country, plain), πλατέα (universal plate, wide flat, wide plate). (various references)

Hungarian

lakásokra bontva (to let off a house into flats), házat lakásokra bontva bérbe ad (to let off a house into flats), bérház (apartment house, block of flats, land, tenement house), bérbe ad egy házat (to let off a house into flats). (various references)

Icelandic

fjólbýlishús (apartment building, block of flats). (various references)

Italian

ferro piatto, ferri piatti, piatto (course, cymbal, dish, dishful, even, flat, plain, plane, plate, plateful, platter, turntable), pianura (flat, flat land, flatness, level, lowland, peneplain, plain, rank), piano (arrangement, deck, design, even, flat, floor, gently, in a low voice, level, level land, map, piano, plain, plan, plane, plot, project, schedule, scheme, shallow, slow, smooth, storey, story, tabulate, tier). (various references)

Korean 

평지. (various references)

Norwegian

høyblokk (apartment building, block of flats). (various references)

Papiamen

flèt (apartment building, block of flats). (various references)

Pig Latin

atsflay.(various references)

Portuguese

planície (champaign, flat, lowland, plain, plains). (various references)

Romanian

proiectul unui bloc (scheme of a block of flats), bloc bine construit (solid block of flats), bloc (blank, block, block of flats, mansion, unit). (various references)

Spanish

vega (bottom), llanura (expanse, expansion, flatness, lowness, plain, prairie). (various references)

Swedish

slätt (bad, miserable, nasty, plain, plateau, poor, smoothly), planmark (plain). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "flats": mudflats. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flats" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falta, flabs, flachs, flahs, flapt, flass, flast, flate, flates, flatsy, Flatt, flatty, Flatz, flawt, fleats, Flites, flytes, lfat, pfaltz, Vlasta. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alts, fast, fats, flat, last, lats, salt, slat.

-2 letters: aft, als, alt, fas, fat, las, lat, sal, sat, tas.

-3 letters: al, as, at, fa, la, ta.

+1 letter: faults, festal, flatus, floats, flotas.

+2 letters: falsest, falsity, falters, fatless, fetials, fistula, flasket, flaunts, flotsam, flypast, folates, hatfuls, hatsful, sulfate, vatfuls.

+3 letters: afflatus, afflicts, airlifts, batfowls, blastoff, boastful, boatfuls, catfalls, defaults, deflates, fabulist, fallouts, falsetto, fantails, fastball, fatalism, fatalist, fatlings, fealties, feastful, fellates, festally, festival, fetiales, fetialis, filiates, finalist, fishtail, fistulae, fistular, fistulas, flakiest, flamiest, flaskets, flatbeds, flatcaps, flatcars, flatfish, flatlets, flatness, flattens, flatters, flattest, flattish, flattops, flatuses, flatwash, flatways, flatwise, flautist, flawiest, flaxiest, fleapits, floatels, floaters, flokatis, flotages, flotsams, flyboats, flypasts, flytraps, foliates, forestal, foxtails, fractals, frailest, frontals, ghastful, hasteful, haylofts, holdfast, inflates, leafiest, leaflets, mudflats, outfalls, pitfalls, reflates, refloats, refutals, softball, stageful, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, tailfans, talkfest, tankfuls, tasteful, trayfuls, wasteful.