A-flat Sentence Examples

It wasn't a question, but a flat statement.

They came in a flat green tin—fifty of 'em. That's how they got the name.

She displayed beautiful intonation and reached the A flat without even a hint of shrillness.

He was lean, with broad shoulders, narrow hips and a flat abdomen.

I thought it had a flat but I guess he fixed it.

He had just fixed a flat on his bike.

It wasn't as if she were wearing a bikini, and her only physical attributes were a flat abdomen and smooth curves – well, those and her breasts, but they were over proportioned - out of balance, so to speak.

The ovary has many cavities with a large number of ovules attached to its walls, and is surmounted by a flat stigma of many radiating rows as in a poppy.

In some hydroids the founder-polyp, developed from a planula after fixation, throws out numerous outgrowths from the base to form the hydrorhiza; these outgrowths may be radially arranged so as to form by contact or coalescence a flat plate.

The foot resembles that of the other lemurs in its large opposable great toe with a flat nail; but all the other toes have pointed compressed claws.

Other hairs consist of a chain of cells; others, again, are branched in various ways; while yet others have the form of a flat plate of cells placed parallel to the leaf surface and inserted on a stalk.

For example, in southern Algeria, a region of steppes is situated on a flat plateau, about 3000 ft.

Thales of earth Miletus is claimed as the first exponent of the idea of a Flat Homer.

There is, indeed, a flat contradiction between the two accounts, but a family of Greek MSS.

Naturally, it is among the free living forms that the parapodium is best developed, and least developed among the tubicolous belongs typically a long tentacle, the cirrus, which 'r podium or neuropodium, and may be developed into an arborescent gill or into a flat scale-like process, A the elytron (in Polynoe, &c.).

Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.

To the north, west and south, a flat coastal belt, bordering the Irish Sea, with its inlets Morecambe Bay and Solway Firth, and broadest in the north, marks off the Lake District, while to the east the valleys of the Eden and the Lune divide it from the Pennine mountain system.

Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite occupy a single depression, a flat alluvial plain separating them.

In mounting, the specimen is floated out in a flat white dish containing sea-water, so that foreign matter may be detected, and a piece of paper of suitable size is placed under it, supported either by the fingers of the left hand or by a palette.

The city stands on the south side of the bay, and is built on a flat point of land only 8 ft.

It lies in a flat plain on the river Don, with slight hills rising westward.

If the cardboard scale upon which the beam of light is reflected by the magnetometer mirror is a flat one, the deflections as indicated by the movement of the spot of light are related to the actual deflections of the needle in the ratio of tan 20 to 0.

A little instrument, supplied by Hartmann and Braun, contains a short length of fine bismuth wire wound into a flat double spiral, half an inch or thereabouts in diameter, and attached to a long ebonite handle.

On the north there is a flat tract between Chelsea and Westminster, covering Pimlico, but from Westminster down to the Tower there is a marked slope directly up from the river bank.

As the sewing wires soon begin to break, a flat rope must usually be ripped Apart and resewed every six or eight months.

The fractured end is heated, and by the combined action of heat and centrifugal force opens out into a flat foot.

A full account of the process of blowing crown-glass will be found in all older books and articles on the subject, so that it need only be mentioned here that the glass, instead of being blown into a cylinder, is blown into a flattened sphere, which is caused to burst at the point opposite the pipe and is then, by the rapid spinning of the glass in front of a very hot furnace-opening, caused to expand into a flat disk of large diameter.

The rolled sheet is left on the castingtable until it has set sufficiently to be pushed over a flat iron plate without risk of distortion; meanwhile the table has been placed in front of the opening of one of the large annealing kilns and the slab of glass is carefully pushed into the kiln.

The scums forming on the top of the continuous defecator become so hard and dry that they have to be removed from time to time with a specially constructed instrument like a flat spade with three flat prongs in front.

If they are supported at intervals along a flat side, they are called muffles, and the furnace is known as a Silesian furnace.

A "crested" furrow is obtained by the use of a share, the wing of which is set at a higher altitude than the point, but this type of furrow is less generally found than the "rectangular" form obtained by a level-edged share, which leaves a flat bottom.

The station is built on a flat peninsula connected by a narrow strip of land with a ridge which runs parallel with the river.

The eastern part of Bastar is a flat elevated plateau, from 1800 to 2000 ft.

The valley about Herat includes a flat alluvial plain which might, for some miles on any side except the north, be speedily reduced to an impassable swamp by means of flood-water from the surrounding canals.

To this adapter is attached a flat circular flange h.

These are similar in principle to the Baird machine, the cutting agent being a flat link chain carrying a double set of chisel points, which are drawn across the coal face at the rate of about 5 ft.

The town was situated in an unusual position for a Greek city, on a flat marshy plain, and its walls form a.

The idea of Oceanus as a river flowing unceasingly round the earth, which was regarded as a flat circle, was of long continuance.

These piles have a flat flange at the bottom, and water is pumped in at the top of the pile, which is weighted to prevent it from rising.

Havant lies in a flat coastal district, near the head of Langstone Harbour, a wide shallow inlet of the English Channel.

Off the mainland near Havant lies Hayling, a flat island of irregular form lying between the harbours of Langstone and Chichester.

These cliffs continue round the South Foreland to Folkestone, where they fall away, and are succeeded west of Sandgate by a flat shingly shore.

It consists of an electromagnet within the iron core of which is a flat disk-like cavity containing mercury, the sides of the cavity being stamped with grooves.

It lies in a flat agricultural fen district, drained by numerous cuts, some of which are navigable.

The culminating summits of the ranges generally present the appearance of a flat, rounded swelling, and when they are crowned with glaciers, as many of them are, these shape themselves into what may be described as a mantle, a breastplate, or a flat cap, from which lappets and fringes project at intervals; nowhere do there exist any of the long, narrow, winding glacier tongues which are so characteristic of the Alps of Europe.

In them the foot has a flat ventral surface used for creeping, as in Gastropods, the byssus gland is but slightly developed, the pleural ganglia are distinct, there is a relic of the pharyngeal cavity, in some forms with a pair of glandular sacs, the gonads retain their primitive connexion with the renal cavities, and the otocysts are open.

The best kind of charcoal is that of close-grained pine or alder; it is cut in short prisms, having a flat smooth surface at right angles to the rings of growth.

Fore-feet with the first toe rudimentary and bearing a flat nail.

Vandeleuria, ranging from India to Yunnan, has flat nails on the first and fifth toes of both feet, and a very long tail; while the Indo-Malay Chiropodomys has a flat nail on the first toe of both feet and a tufted tail.

It lies on the east bank of the Ivel, a tributary of the Ouse, in a flat plain in which vegetables are largely grown for the London markets.

On this occasion a stone altar, consisting of a flat slab resting upon three other upright slabs, was presented to the parish, and was set up in the church at the east wall of the chancel.

This supported a flat roof and was open to the inside of the fortress.

Physiographically Silesia, is roughly divided into a flat and a hilly portion by the so-called Silesian Langental, which begins on the south-east near the river Malapane, and extends across the province in a west-by-north direction to the Black Elster, following in part the valley of the Oder.

They may be supported by iron standards or brick piers, back and front, bearing up a flat bar of iron on which the slates may rest; the use of the bar will give wider intervals between the supports, which will be found convenient for filling and emptying the beds.

It is very necessary in the case of trees trained to a flat surface, as a wall or espalier rail, to prevent undue crowding.

The ventral surface forms a flat creeping "foot," and between mantle and foot is a pallial groove in which there is on each side a series of gills.

The back of the Russian squirrel has an even close fur varying from a clear bluish-grey to a reddishbrown, the bellies in the former being of a flat quality and white, in the latter yellowish.

Below Czenstochowa it traverses a flat lowland, whose surface rises only 2 to 5 ft.

The largest of the rivers which enter it, the Tigrish and the Nyuki, run north through a flat marshy country which extends south of the lake.

The numerous stamens surround the ovary, which is composed of 4 to 16 carpels and is surmounted by a flat or convex rayed disk bearing the stigmas.

South and west of this highland, along the Kansas river, is a low, level tract occupied chiefly by railway yards, stock yards, wholesale houses and manufacturing establishments; north and east of the highland is a flat section, the Missouri River bottoms, occupied largely by manufactories, railway yards, grain elevators and homes of employes.

It is a flat plain, and its scenery is uninteresting.

On the one side is a flat sandy plain, in which lies Pest, modern of aspect, regularly laid out, and presenting a long frontage of handsome buildings to the river.

In addition to their stout build and long thickly haired tails, marmots are characterized by the absence of cheek-pouches, and the rudimentary first front-toe, which is furnished with a flat nail, as well as by certain features of the skull and cheek-teeth.

No work of art in metal has probably ever surpassed these little figures for beauty, vigour and expression, while the skill with which the artist has beaten these high reliefs out of a flat plate of metal appears almost miraculous.

The shapes of all polygonal and all cylindrical and conical forms are obtained by simple development - that is, the envelopments of these bodies are marked out on a flat plane, and when cut, are bent or folded to give the required envelopes.

If an object has to be beaten into concave form from a flat thin sheet, the outer portions must be hammered until they occupy smaller dimensions than on the flat sheet.

Let N be the total pressure sustained by a flat pivot of the radius r; if that pressure be uniformly distributed, which is the case when the rubbing surfaces of the pivot and its step are both true planes, the intensity of the pressure is pN/irr2 (60)

The friction of a conical pivot exceeds that of a flat pivot of the same radius, and under the same pressure, in the proportion of the side of the cone to the radius of its base.

A record of this series of advances marked upon a flat map of the original country would give a series of concentric contour-lines narrowing towards the mountaintops, which they would at last completely surround.

His proposals were to print from type placed either on a flat bed or a cylinder, and the impression was to be given by another cylinder covered with some suitable material, the paper being fed in between the type and the impression cylinder, and the ink applied by rollers covered with cloth or leather, or both.

His invention was to print type placed on a flat bed, the impression being given by a large cylinder, under which the type passed, but his inking appliances were not satisfactory.

With scarcely any neck, he had round shoulders, a broad face with a flat nose, a thin beard, and squinting eyes, which were generally downcast.

This drop will not spread out like the first drop, but will take the form of a flat lens with a distinct circular edge, showing that the surface-tension of what is still apparently pure water is now less than the sum of the tensions of the surfaces separating oil from air and water.

The upper surface of this column is not level, so that the height of the column cannot be directly measured, but let us assume that h is the mean height of the column, that is to say, the height of a column of equal weight, but with a flat top. Then if r is the radius of the tube at the top of the column, the volume of the suspended column is 717 2 12, and its weight is 7rpgr 2 h, when p is its density and g the intensity of gravity.

This will be the case, for instance, near a flat plate dipped into the liquid.

The isthmus which connects the peninsula with the mainland is a flat tundra, sloping gently both ways.

The Baaken's River, usually a small stream, but subject (as in 1908) to disastrous floods, runs through the town, which consists of four divisions; the harbour and business quarter at the foot of the cliffs, the upper part, a flat table-land known as "The Hill"; "The Valley" formed by the Baaken's River; and "South Hill," east of the river.

In Malwa a flat scraper is employed, a small piece of cotton soaked in linseed oil being attached to the upper part of the blade, and used for smearing the thumb and edge of the scraper to prevent adhesion of the juice; sometimes water is used instead of oil, but both practices injure the quality of the product.

It has a flat cast-iron bottom, 5 feet in diameter, and wooden sides about 30 inches high, the lower parts of which are lined with cast-iron.

In Lancashire a flat coastal strip occurs between the western front of the Pennine Chain and the Irish Sea, and, widening southward, extends into Cheshire and comprises the lower valleys of the Mersey and the Dee.

The wide estuary of the sea separating it from the mainland, through which ships sailed from the English Channel into the Thames, using it as the shortest route from the south to London, has entirely disappeared, leaving only a flat lowland traversed by branches of the river Stour to mark its former existence.

On leaving the hills it enters on a flat country, and extends over a gravelly bed.

The mosque is square, with a flat roof supported on clay columns, and crowned by a minaret.

A similar construction is followed for flat roofs, the grades being generally formed in the girder and beam construction, and a flat ceiling secured by hanging from them, with steel straps, a light tier of ceiling beams. The floor beams are tied laterally by rods in continuous lines placed at or above their neutral axis.

The change in direction of the air when striking a flat surface such as the side of a building will form a cushion to diminish the effects of impulses and shocks from local gusts.

In Araucaria the cone-scale is regarded as consisting of a flat carpel, of which the placenta has not grown out into the scale-like structure.

The integument of the sterile ovule is prolonged above the nucellus as a spirally-twisted tube expanded at its apex into a flat stigma-like organ.

The general aspect of the district is that of a flat even country, dotted with clusters of bamboos and betelnut trees, and intersected by a perfect network of dark-coloured and sluggish streams. There is not a hill or hillock in the whole district, but it derives a certain picturesque beauty from its wide expanses of cultivation, and the greenness and freshness of the vegetation.

A pulley carried on a rotating shaft and connected to another pulley on a second shaft by an endless band consisting of a flat belt, rope, chain or similar connector serves for the transmission of power from the one shaft to the other and is known as a driving pulley; while combinations of pulleys or "sheaves," mounted in fixed or movable frames or "blocks," constitute mechanisms used to facilitate the raising of heavy weights.

This self-guiding property may be explained by the tendency which a flat band has, when running upon a conical pulley in a direction normal to its axis, to describe a spiral path as it wraps on to the surface because of the lateral stiffness of the material; the advancing side therefore tends to rise towards the highest part of the cone.

The resistance to slipping of a flat belt on a pulley may be obtained by considering the equilibrium of a small arc of the pulley surface subtending an angle dB at the centre, and having tensions T and T+dT at its extremities.

Speaking generally, a range of hills, known as the Western Ghats, runs down the coast, at places rising in splendid bluffs and precipices from the water's edge, at others retreat moun- i n inland, and leavin g a flat fertile strip of to o m.

In front of the aperture were placed a plate of transparent rock-salt, and a flat cell of thin glass containing a solution of iodine in carbon bisulphide.

There are five toes to all the feet, but the first in the fore-feet is rudimentary, and furnished with a flat nail.

After the outer surface has been scraped and cleaned, the pieces are flattened by heating them over a fire and submitting them to pressure on a flat surface.

Female flowers in pairs, the bracts enlarging in the fruit to form a membranous cup (hazel), or a flat three-lobed structure (hornbeam).

The fact that the fore-legs are somewhat shorter than those behind enables the ibex to ascend mountain slopes with more facility than it can descend, while its hoofs are as hard as steel, rough underneath and when walking over a flat surface capable of being spread out.

It consists of a compressed intermolar portion with a flat upper surface, broad behind and becoming narrower in front, and of a depressed anterior part rather shorter than the former, which is narrow behind and widens towards the evenly rounded apex.

The Spigelian lobe is represented by a flat surface between the postal fissure and the posterior border, not distinctly marked off from the left lateral by a fissure of the ductus venosus, as this vessel is buried deep in the hepatic substance, but the caudate lobe is distinct and tongue-shaped, its free apex reaching nearly to the border of the right lateral lobe.

The issue of the struggle was not a complete victory even in Byzantium for the partisans of image-worship. The iconoclasts left an indelible impress on the Christian art of the Greek Church, in so far as they put an end to the use of graven images; for the Eastern icon is a flat picture, less easily regarded than would be a statue as a nidus within which a spirit can lurk.

The first of these resemble an ordinary reverberatory furnace by having a flat bed which, however, has the form of a circular disk mounted on a central shaft, and receives a slow movement of rotation from a water-wheel or other motor, so that every part of the surface is brought successively under the action of the fire, the charge being stirred and ultimately removed by passing under a series of fixed scraper arms placed above the surface at various points.

Fitzgerald's entry was a flat trailer, pulled by a Jeep, bedecked with appropriate flags and bunting while a tiny speaker blared America the Beautiful.

Then, out of character and without preamble, he announced, I've got one more nail to put a flat in Mr. Fitzgerald's little red wagon.

They came in a flat green tin—fifty of 'em. That's how they got the name.

It wasn't as if she were wearing a bikini, and her only physical attributes were a flat abdomen and smooth curves – well, those and her breasts, but they were over proportioned - out of balance, so to speak.

Such metal was probably flattened by repeatedly striking a flat hammer stone on a large stone anvil.

The blade has a flat bevel and is easy to sharpen using a Japanese Water Stone.

Some households are more likely than others to benefit from switching from a flat rate to a metered water billing.

To the reverse the frame is finished in brushed Black Velvet and is designed to stand on a flat surface.

I drank heavily and always carried a flat half bottle in my battledress blouse.

Get a flat black car bra, paint over flat surfaces with glossy paint, paint over rounded surfaces with flat paint.

Mine's a flat cola A whole range of drinks can boost sporting performance, claim their makers.

Structurally different from Pitcairn, which towered from the sea, Henderson is a flat atoll made of fossilized coral.

Ears with two rows form a flat ear; those with six rows form a roughly cylindrical ear.

The original design was the house's very first creation, consisting of a flat trunk circled in iron and enhanced with wooden slats.

Garry Bog is a flat area of farmland, carr, raised bog and coniferous forestry which includes the large straight edged Garry Wood.

Bagged feed was delivered on a flat lorry, the pallets being loaded by forklift.

The movement is similar to the way they remove the surplus fat from a flat griddle in a burger bar.

By using light airs a well trimmed sailing ship can make considerable headway on what appears to be a flat calm sea.

Comes with a flat key to quell concerns that the Ace cylindrical keyway Kryptonite used to employ could be picked with a cylindrical pipe.

A worker there helped them get a deposit for a flat with a private landlord through a local Rent Deposit Scheme.

Synthesis of a flat optical lens was investigated by using short pulsed laser induced surface graphitisation of CVD diamond in air.

The Soviets claim to build a flat brick arch lintel of six meters without a steel beam.

To produce a lithograph the artist draws the work on a flat plate or surface with a greasy or waxy medium.

For electron microscopy, a conical tip with a flat emitting surface at the apex has proven to be the optimum design.

The seal matrix is a flat pointed oval (25 mm long, 19 mm wide) with a suspension loop on the back.

An overlay keyboard is a flat surface containing a matrix of touch sensitive cells or switches onto which a paper overlay keyboard is a flat surface containing a matrix of touch sensitive cells or switches onto which a paper overlay can be placed.

The keystone reaches up into a segmental pediment, set against a flat cornice.

With a vegetable peeler, remove 2 thin strips from the rounded side to create a flat surface.

The extension bracket is a flat plate with a double right angle formed across the middle.

The reader has a flat platen with five metal posts embedded in it.

A rear extension to a terraced house is to have a flat roof with insulation between timber rafters.

There is a flat little red light on the button side of the fob.

He is a flat coated retriever and true to his breed loves everybody he meets.

Start on a flat boulder at the base of the slab, step left off this and climb a shallow runnel to a ledge.

I made one out of a flat head screwdriver by grinding a channel in the middle of the bit.

They settle on other worm tubes, building large mounds that eventually transform a flat sandy gravelly seabed into an extensive reef.

Fashioned in a matt, transparent material they feature a smooth, slim satin band at the top and have a flat toe seam.

The common brown shrimp, Crangon crangon, can be found by sifting through the top layer of sand with a flat fronted net.

Tony sanded a flat on two opposing corners and fixed it between centers, he turned a spigot then mounted it onto a chuck.

The rotor's movement winds the mainspring, a flat coiled spring, a flat coiled spring that powers mechanical watches.

Place slices of smoked salmon on a flat clean surface, cut slices into rectangles.

The vault is sealed with a flat marble stone, recessed to take an inscribed memorial tablet.

Most bryophytes have erect or creeping stems and tiny leaves, but hornworts and some liverworts have only a flat thallus and no leaves.

There has never been a flat tire, a red rose or a work of art.

Use a flat toothpick or other convenient implement and apply a thin smooth layer of the glue around the edge of the cell.

It is certainly true to say that to project the world in which we look round onto a flat plane is to distort it.

Two communal living room facilities per house include a flat screen TV & dvd, comfortable seating and dining furniture.

The west bay has entrance vestibule with upper gallery, further five bays to the nave, wide, with a flat paneled ceiling.

A trained male walrus was rewarded to distinguish between triangular and circular shapes on a flat and a heterogenous substrate.

A tire with a flat spot in the middle can cause wobbles.

Anemometers which measure the pressure may be divided into the plate and tube classes, but the former term must be taken as including a good many miscellaneous forms. The simplest type of this form consists of a flat plate, which is usually square or circular, while a wind vane keeps this exposed normally to the wind, and the pressure of the wind on its face is balanced by a spring.

Oesophagus, stomach, radial canals, ring-canal and tentacle-canals, constitute together the gastrovascular system and are lined throughout by endoderm, which forms also a flat sheet of cells connecting the radial canals and ring canal together like a web; this is the so-called endoderm-lamella (e.l.), a most important feature of medusan morphology, the nature of which will be apparent when the development is described.

As he came nearer he saw that the boy held a charred stick in his hand, with which he was drawing something on a flat rock.

He wore a flat gray cloth cap, a dingy wool-colored greatcoat, and cowhide boots.

Sometimes the well dent is visible, where once a spring oozed; now dry and tearless grass; or it was covered deep--not to be discovered till some late day--with a flat stone under the sod, when the last of the race departed.

Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down.

One was tall and thin, the other dark, shaggy, and sinewy, with a flat nose.

Most respondents were in favor of applying a flat rate deduction.

Funnel web spiders have a flat web with a tunnel at one side where the spider lurks.

The rotor 's movement winds the mainspring, a flat coiled spring that powers mechanical watches.

The result was a flat bottomed vessel with lee boards and a tall spritsail rig, very handy in shallow estuary waters.

The old town you see today is mostly medieval, located on top of a flat hill and surrounded by a towered city wall.

For this reason, language can no more transcend duality than paintings or photographs upon a flat surface can go beyond two dimensions.

He was singing in a flat tuneless way, I 'm going on Holiday, Holiday, Holiday.

Two communal living room facilities per house include a flat screen tv & dvd, comfortable seating and dining furniture.

If you are unfortunate enough to suffer a flat tire, can you cope?

An adjustable elasticated waistband with a flat draw cord, again for added comfort.

The person who registers pays a flat fee and then can choose items from stores all over the country.

Instead of having a curved base, the nursery glider has a flat base, with the chair moving backwards and forwards on tracks.

These charges are usually are done per character or line, although some places or items may only charge a flat rate for monogramming.

The unit can also be used on a flat surface.

If your dog stretches out while sleeping, a flat design or pillow type that offers a lot of room will do.

Some plans charge per photo sent, and others simply charge a flat monthly fee for unlimited photo exchange.

Tulip bulbs look kind of like onions, with a pointy end and a flat end.

A wide footprint, a flat sole, and a good lacing system are usually good indications of adequate lateral support.

Consider a flat panel monitor for your new PC.

The tufts are all the same length so it has a flat appearance, and it wears well.

You need to place the hot tub on a flat and sturdy surface.

You can use it across your lap in a flat position or fold it and elevate your laptop to keep it cool on tabletops.

Knowing how to buy a flat screen TV doesn't mean walking into the nearest electronics store, looking at the best picture on display and picking that one.

Finally, if you're not in a hurry the moment you start look to buy a TV, pay attention to time frames as you learn how to buy a flat screen TV.

Over the course of the last 20 years, personal television sets have come a long way, and selecting a flat screen TV has become both easier and more difficult due to the sheer number of options available.

Now, with an array of flat and sleep choices, selecting a flat screen TV requires doing a bit of research to know which of the many options is right for you.

Some plans come with a flat rate deductible, while others require you to pay a percentage of your total vet bill.

Pewter Mint Julep cups were inspired by the works of early craftsmen in the south.The cup is traditionally 6.5 inches tall, with a top diameter of 4 inches, a flat bottom and straight sides that flare only slightly at the top.

Sometimes, they are paid a percentage of how much debt you repay your creditors, whereas other times they receive a flat fee from them.

The most generic type of international phone card is one that is purchased for dialing any number in the world at a flat rate per minute.

Discount Rate Plus a Flat Fee - If you are expecting to have less than $5,000 in American Express transactions each year and plan to authorize, submit, and receive payments electronically, you will pay a monthly flat fee of $5.95.

Some issuers allow cardholders the option to choose among their fees; many companies allow cardholders to decide whether they would like to pay a fee for each transaction, or if they would instead prefer to pay a flat monthly fee.

When you call the Golden Retriever service you are charged a flat rate to your phone card.

When you consult with an attorney, try to negotiate a flat fee instead of an hourly fee.

For instance, do they charge a flat rate or only work on an hourly basis?

Some lawyers work strictly on a flat fee basis, which means they charge a set amount of money regardless of how many hours they work on a case.

For a flat fee, the company will prepare the necessary divorce papers for yourself and your spouse.

After all, at its most basic a table is just a support structure that elevates a flat surface about 30 inches off the floor.

When you sleep on a flat bed, the natural S shape of your spine is not supported, causing many of your muscles to remain tense.

The shipping charges at Overstock are a flat rate of $2.95 on your entire order, no matter what you order or how much.

If you are comfortable embracing high tech, then go ahead and mount a flat screen on the wall, perhaps over the mantle.

Depending on how textured you want your decorative wall painting technique to look, you can fold your rag into many accordion folds, or simply use it as a flat surface.

They do not wash easily, so if walls are likely to be scuffed, a flat finish might not be the best choice.

It has a flat panel border that goes all the way around the pillow.

Create a tone-on-tone damask design by applying a flat paint onto a semigloss basecoat.

Splurge on a flat screen and consider such special features as HDTV.

The resulting tile will have square edges, a flat surface and smooth appearance.

When painting a home to sell, it's best to use a flat finish.

No matter how many rugs you buy, Overstock will ship them for a flat rate of $2.95.

The most common design use a flat frame, and the seashells are mounted onto the wood or metal frame to take the place of decorative moldings.

For example, some mirrors are available in either beveled edges or what's known as a flat mirror.

Lay your fabric pattern side down on a flat surface and spray it evenly with adhesive.

You may also want to play around with spacing of words and position on a flat surface first, before applying the letters directly to the wall.

On a flat canvas that can be hard, so it must be conveyed with motion of the body and intensity of the emotion.

Matte eye shadows have a flat finish and absorb light.

Other options, such as hands free and adjustable cosmetic mirrors, are also available to allow you to look your best even in awkward or unexpected conditions, especially when using a makeup mirror on a flat surface is impractical.

Shipping is a flat rate of $5.99 to anywhere in the United States.

Sparse and lacking any extra features, this set includes a slightly rounded mirror over a flat tabletop.

The trick with this product is to have the elbows steady and on a flat surface (if you love this look, invest in a vanity table).

Start at the center of the lid and blend a shade one step lighter than your crease shade outwards, using a flat shadow brush.

I prefer to use a flat shadow brush, such as Benefit's own The Talent Brush.

With a flat shadow brush, apply a dark green to the outer corner of the eyelids.

These large round frying pans can come with a flat or round bottom and in a variety of materials from aluminum to carbon steel.

Articles can be sold to online publications for a flat fee or a percentage of future profits.

This mountain is the world's biggest with a flat top.

If you want something slightly dressier, go with a flat sandal.

You may be charged a deposit fee, (such as 20% of the total or estimated cost) or a flat rate deposit amount that is nonrefundable should you decide to go with a different type of vehicle.

A wedding sheet cake is a flat rectangular cake that provides a large decorating surface and is easy to slice and serve.

A cupcake cake is a group of cupcakes that is arranged very close together in one or several layers and is frosted uniformly to resemble a flat cake.

Sheet cakes and large round cakes are common at weddings for brides and grooms who want to save money, since they don't cost as much as tiered models, and any cupcake cake can be made in a flat rectangular or circular shape.

Warm up ganache and spread it on the sides and top of a cake with a flat spatula to make it look smooth, but some people prefer to just pour liquid ganache over the entire cake and then let it firm.

In some versions, such as a bed-in-a-bag style of comforter set, in addition to the comforter and sham, you may also get one (perhaps two) pillowcases, a fitted sheet and a flat sheet.

The set includes a queen size comforter cover, a flat or fitted sheet and two standard pillowcases.

The most complete bedding set is a four-piece collection that comes with a quilted bedspread, a fitted sheet, a flat sheet, and one standard pillowcase.

The Dora toddler sheet sets include a flat sheet, a fitted sheet and a pillowcase.

Let the cake cool, and then slice a layer off the top to create a flat surface.

To cover an entire cake or create a flat sheet from which to cut out shapes, sift a small amount of powdered sugar or cornstarch onto a flat surface and roll out the fondant on top with a rolling pin.

Some people prefer the taste of buttercream or marshmallow fondant over traditional rolled fondant, which can have an overly sweet taste and a flat texture.

Using a flat spatula and store-bought or homemade buttercream, cover the bunny completely with frosting.

If you make a mistake, try wiping off the frosting with a flat spatula and replacing it in a pastry bag so you can pipe over the same area again.

Sprinkle a flat work surface and a rolling pin with cornstarch.

Fill in the design by spreading more green frosting with a flat spatula.

Bake a flat sheet cake and allow it to cool and chill.

Add a flat patter or large dinner plate in a coordinating color or theme to the top.

Coat a cake evenly with buttercream frosting using a flat spatula, and then pipe on decorative shell borders or adornments on the cake with a pastry bag and tip.

You'll need a flat spatula; a sturdy zip-top bag or pastry bag and round decorating tip; two pieces of string-like licorice to use as antennae; and red, black, and white buttercream frosting.

Instead of using a flat rectangular cake, experienced decorators can sculpt stacked round cakes into an hourglass shape for a similar effect.

Use a flat spatula and a large bowl of red buttercream to frost Elmo's body.

Use a flat spatula, your pastry bag, and other frosting colors to fill in the design and enhance it with realistic details.

Start by keeping things simple with a frog cake pan or a flat sheet cake design, and exercise more creativity as you gain skills with stand-up cakes or custom toppers.

You can also choose to pipe a flat frog design on a round cake or sheet cake.

The easiest way to do a lovebird cake is to bake a square or rectangular cake with a flat top, frost it with white buttercream, and use a pastry bag and various decorating tips to pipe on outlines and details for the birds.

With a flat spatula, scoop globs of white buttercream frosting out of a bowl and place them on top of the cake.

If you're using all buttercream, spread on a thicker layer of yellow frosting over the first thin layer with a flat spatula, smoothing it out as you go.

He has a flat tire out in the middle of nowhere and discovers he doesn't have a spare.

The shorts are made of 100 percent cotton and have a flat front and zip fly with a button closure.

Once a student meets the scholarship requirements, he receives a flat fee.

Rather than paying textbook fees, students pay a flat resource fee per course whether the course has one, two or three texts associated with it.

There is no requirement of admission to Oklahoma University, and you pay a flat rate for work.

It can be a basket lined with a cushion, a soft construction of material and padding, or even a flat cushioned mat without any sides.

Iberis Petraea - A pretty alpine species, 3 inches high, with a flat cluster of white flowers, relieved in the centre by a tinge of red, thriving among rock plants in welldrained spots with plenty of moisture.

In D. caeruleus the stems are erect and much branched, each branch terminating in a flat umbel of small flowers, of a pleasing clear blue color, which are borne freely from August to October.

Once you've chosen your type of strawberries, it's best to purchase plants in pots or in a flat at the garden center.

Usually, trim is painted with a semi-gloss for durability, and walls and ceilings are covered with a flat latex.

If there's a decorative faucet cap on the handle, pry it off with a flat head screwdriver.

For this you'll need either a flat or a Philips head screwdriver.

Invest in wire shelving for the inside of your vanity doors, and replace a flat wall mirror with a medicine cabinet that has storage.

Just because a product is made of glass, it doesn't mean that you can see through it or that it just looks like a flat soda pop bottle.

Frame a flat screen TV with shelving to integrate it within the room design.

Rather than a flat track that is secured to the ceiling with a light gripped inside it, a monorail system has a rail coming vertically off the ceiling with the lights suspended from it.

Rather than a flat track, which is attached at all points to the ceiling, monorail track lights are suspended at varying points from the ceiling.

They are a flat and related to the sea urchin and have provided the inspiration for jewelry of many types, including earrings, for many years.

They are the Chinese symbol for the word monkey and a pendant with an image of a monkey on a flat charm such as a disc.

Worn for sailing, it has a flat crown and brim with a ribbon around the crown.

For slim figures, choose a flat front short so that there is not a lot of extra fabric in the front.

They have a flat front with constructed belt loops and have woven ventilation at both the back and inside of the leg.

These plaid shorts are full length and have a flat front and zip and button closure.

These shorts are available in birch, black, and soft grey, have a flat front, and a hook closure with a zipper.

The pants have a flat front and integrated flap pockets, and a rear pocket with a Velcro closure.

You can still have the comfort of elastic plus the look of a flat front if you look for pants with elastic only on the sides or in the back.

Available in sizes 18 to 26, this dress features a flat white collar and white cuff.

The neckline consists of a flat collar that has rounded edges.

They're perfect to wear with heels; the wide leg will swallow a flat shoe completely, and the addition of heels instantly elongates the leg and presents an even more flattering silhouette from top to bottom.

Along with Dockers, they offer a variety of styles and lengths of shorts with features like a flat front to provide a slimming look.

Enjoy free shipping to a local store or pay a flat rate and have items shipped directly to your home or office.

It should be positioned on a flat surface before use.

Most people use a flat iron to achieve a straight look.

If you are not willing to hassle with a flat iron or taming products on a daily basis, opt for a bob or other short style.

When light rays impact a flat surface such as a car windshield, water, snow, or pavement, they are diffused in all directions.

After reflecting off of a flat surface, the light rays have a focused, horizontal orientation, which normally causes glare.

When light hits a flat surface, like that of a road, or the water, it tends to move horizontally.

In short, this means that you get to see more clearly and don't have to shield your eyes with your hand when you encounter a flat surface.

Essentially anyone who comes in contact with a flat surface, for example, drivers on the road, or boaters, may have a need for polarized styles.

First make sure you are on a flat surface area and throw a plasma grenade.

Lentigo maligna (melanotic freckle of Hutchinson), most common on the face and after the age of 50, first appears as a flat spot containing two or more shades of tan.

The patient is left with a flat mole the same color as the original growth.

After each incident, the child has a flat affect (no emotion) or fails to admit that there was anything wrong with the his or her actions.

Stepping reflex is observed by holding the infant in an upright position and touching one foot lightly to a flat surface, such as the bed.

Prone crawl reflex can be stimulated by placing the neonate prone (face down) on a flat surface.

It is a flat tracing and indicates that the baby has sustained a severe assault on its central nervous system.

Early in fetal development, a flat strip of tissue along the back of the fetus rolls up to form a tube.

The next step is for the esthetician to take spply the hot wax with a flat wooden application tool (which may resemble a popsicle stick or wooden spoon).

The way to achieve long waves with most hair types is to first straighten the hair with a flat iron and then using a curling iron, create long flowing waves.

Once all of your hair is completely dry, go over small sections with a flat iron.

Use a flat iron for polish, or a curl and use a volumizing product for big, sexy hair.

Start with a volumizing spray and then blow dry the hair completely with a flat brush.

Touch up the ends of the hair with a flat iron to accentuate the layers.

Use a flat iron to straighten the bangs completely.

This is recommended since you'll be using a hairdryer and a flat iron.

Use a flat iron if desired, but try to only iron the top layers of the hair to maximize the volume.

Depending on the occasion, you may want hair in a flat straight style, twist or updo, or ponytail style to polish off your look and pull it all together.

Using a flat iron, manipulate the hair as straight as possible by ironing individual two inch sections.

A sedu hair video may be worthy of watching for someone new to the world of sedu hair styles and the art of hair straightening with a flat iron.

With a flat iron such as a Sedu long hairstyles that are smooth, sexy and irresistibly shiny are easy to achieve.

No, using a flat iron requires a certain know-how that will make your hair look as fabulous as you dream it can be.

To bump the ends means to give the hair a slight curl at the ends with a curling iron or a flat iron.

Whether you opt for a wavy look with the help of hot rollers or a curling iron or prefer to keep the look sleek with a flat iron, medium styles are a great compromise that always looks chic no matter your age or hair type.

Today, you can modify this popular bang look by adding more choppy layers and avoiding a curling iron, opting for a flat iron instead.

A chic bob is a timeless style that can be worn for a formal occasion with class, especially when smoothed out with a flat iron.

Moreover, if your hair is naturally frizzy or curly, a good blowout and a flat iron can give you a new strikingly modelesque look for prom.