Flat and Shelf

Flat

Flat noun - A room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place.

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Shelf and flat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shelf" instead the word "Flat" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: flatter, flatly, flatness, flatlet, flatting

Shelf noun - A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.

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Flat and shelf are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flat" instead the word "Shelf" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: shelve, shelved, shelving

best	best flat	best shelf
empty	empty flat	empty shelf
small	small flat	small shelf
entire	entire flat	entire shelf
Other adjectives: large, wrong, tiny, private, falling, broken, different, giant.

There are a number of video games on the shelf in Sonja's flat, a lot of which are very contemporary at the time of the episodes release: Portal 2.

Source: Series / Black Mirror Series Three
Simple Yet Opulent: Minette's mourning garb is flat black, highly subdued, and hand made by professionals out of top shelf material.

Source: Literature / Shattered Continent
The common stereotype came from the fact that fruit cake, when mass-produced and brought to the supermarket, has to be deliberately overbaked in order to have a very long shelf life, with side effects including hardness and a flat taste.

Source: Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes

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