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SLAT (slatted, slatting)

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Irregular inflected forms: slatted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, slatting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does slat mean? 

SLAT (noun)
  The noun SLAT has 1 sense:

1. a thin strip (wood or metal)play

  Familiarity information: SLAT used as a noun is very rare.


SLAT (verb)
  The verb SLAT has 2 senses:

1. equip or bar with slatsplay

2. close the slats of (windows)play

  Familiarity information: SLAT used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLAT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin strip (wood or metal)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

slat; spline

Hypernyms ("slat" is a kind of...):

strip (thin piece of wood or metal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slat"):

lath (a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework)

fin; louver; louvre (one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain)

splat (a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair)

lag; stave (one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket)

Holonyms ("slat" is a part of...):

Venetian blind (a window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed)

Derivation:

slat (close the slats of (windows))

slat (equip or bar with slats)


SLAT (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they slat  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it slats  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: slatted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: slatted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: slatting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Equip or bar with slats

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

Slat the windows

Hypernyms (to "slat" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

slat (a thin strip (wood or metal))


Sense 2

Meaning:

Close the slats of (windows)

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slat" is one way to...):

close; shut (move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

slat (a thin strip (wood or metal))


 Context examples 


Then the gag swung to the side with an abrupt swiftness, the great sail boomed like a cannon, and the three rows of reef-points slatted against the canvas like a volley of rifles.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And the Tin Woodman saw that his terrible Beast was nothing but a lot of skins, sewn together, with slats to keep their sides out.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Joe did not appear for that function, and when Martin heard the gardener remark that most likely he was ripping the slats off the bar, Martin understood.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He hated the chain that bound him, the men who peered in at him through the slats of the pen, the dogs that accompanied the men and that snarled malignantly at him in his helplessness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He envied Joe, down in the village, rampant, tearing the slats off the bar, his brain gnawing with maggots, exulting in maudlin ways over maudlin things, fantastically and gloriously drunk and forgetful of Monday morning and the week of deadening toil to come.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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