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{
"term": "flat",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"image": "data/images/ho/homes.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a building",
"sensetop": "in a flat",
"labels": "(British English)especially in North American English(especially North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)especially British Englishespecially North American English(North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)(British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(North American English)(North American English)(British English)(British English)(especially North American English)(British English also)(British English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They're **renting a** furnished **flat** on the third floor."
},
{
"text": "to **buy/sell a flat**"
},
{
"text": "Do you **live in a flat** or a house?",
"contextForm": "in a flat"
},
{
"text": "a basement/ground-floor/top-floor flat"
},
{
"text": "a two-bedroom flat"
},
{
"text": "The park was surrounded by high-rise flats and office blocks."
},
{
"text": "a new **block of flats**"
},
{
"text": "Many large old houses have been converted into flats."
},
{
"text": "Children from the flats *(= the block of flats)* across the street were playing outside."
},
{
"text": "Do you think that the council could find me another flat?"
},
{
"text": "Even the prices of small one-bedroom flats are unbelievable."
},
{
"text": "I'll meet you back at your flat."
},
{
"text": "She lives in the top flat."
},
{
"text": "The flat is located in a modern development."
},
{
"text": "The landlady found they had been illegally subletting the flat."
},
{
"text": "The musician rented a flat in a fashionable area of London."
},
{
"text": "They live in the next flat."
},
{
"text": "We got her a flat in the same block as ours."
}
],
"topics": ["Houses and homes", "Buildings"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "spacious", "modest"],
"… of flats": ["block"],
"verb + flat": ["have", "own", "rent"],
"flat + verb": ["be located", "face something", "overlook something"],
"preposition": ["at a/the flat", "in a/the flat"],
"phrases": [
"convert something into flats",
"divide something into flats",
"make something into flats"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the flat level part of something",
"sensetop": "the flat of something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He beat on the door with the flat of his hand."
},
{
"text": "the flat of a sword"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "an area of low flat land, especially near water",
"examples": [
{
"text": "salt flats"
},
{
"text": "These birds live on the coastal flats."
},
{
"text": "mud and sand flats rich in animal life"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["coastal", "tidal", "mud"],
"preposition": ["on the flat"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the season for racing horses on flat ground with no jumps",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a note played a semitone lower than the note that is named. The written symbol is (♭).",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There are no sharps or flats in the key of C major."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "a tyre that has lost air, usually because of a hole",
"labels": "(especially North American English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We got a flat on the way home."
},
{
"text": "We had to stop to fix a flat."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "a vertical section of scenery used on a theatre stage",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 8,
"definition": "shoes with a very low heel",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a pair of flats"
}
],
"topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "on level ground, without hills or jumps (= for example in horse racing)",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Overtaking the next cyclist on an Alpine climb is ten times harder than on the flat."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/flæt/",
"audio": "fl/flat/flat__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/flæt/",
"audio": "fl/flat/flat__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun senses 2 to 8 Middle English: from Old Norse flatr. noun sense 1 early 19th cent. (denoting a floor or storey): alteration of obsolete flet ‘floor, dwelling’, of Germanic origin and related to flat ‘level’."
}