incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight
a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
a deflated pneumatic tire
a shallow box in which seedlings are started
a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"
not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
(of a tire) completely or partially deflated
having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors"
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
lacking contrast or shading between tones
horizontally level; "a flat roof"
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"
(of taxes) not increasing as the amount taxed increases
having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"
make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"
the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
unbearable physical pain
subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"