It might also be helpful to know that projective is equivalent to being a summand of a free module (apply $Hom(M,text{--})$ to a presentation of $M$), and hence projectives are flat.
The converse is not true in general (e.g. $mathbb Q$ is flat as a $mathbb Z$-module, but not projective), but for finitely presented modules over commutative rings, flat and projective are equivalent.
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