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Definition of slat in English: slatnoun slatslæt A thin, narrow piece of wood, plastic, or metal, especially one of a series which overlap or fit into each other, as in a fence or a Venetian blind. sunlight filtered dustily through the slats of the door Example sentencesExamples - It has two or three-inch fabric slats suspended between two pieces of sheer fabric.
- I smiled down at him, and continued pacing on the narrow whitewashed slats of the wooden fence.
- You can plant the roses at the base of a fence and weave their canes between the slats.
- In the meantime, other detainees loosened a metal slat in the fence.
- With a wall of painted wood slats, the space can be converted instantly into a gallery of hanging pictures.
- Overlapping slat design allows soft, indirect light to filter in.
- It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
- Lying on our showcase bed we search the ceiling for a glint of a camera lens among the pipes and metal slats.
- There are usually bunk beds or thin mattresses on wood slats.
- One step forward and she realized she was balancing on a slat of wood.
- His brows furrowed and he went back to hammering a wood slat on the house.
- The walls were paneled with word wood slats, and the floor was covered in dark yellow sand.
- Imagine a wooden door, they are the boards or slats that make up the door minus the paneled areas.
- All of these windows are in infrared wavelengths, and they are narrow, like the gaps between the slats of a fence.
- Its arms followed the curve of the seat, and the back had six to nine spindles or slats topped by a large crest rail.
- Between each thin slat of wood, there was a small gap.
- Houses had thatched roofs - thick straw piled high with no wood slats or sheathing underneath.
- In fact, instead of conventional wings, Smith went for 120 slats like a venetian blind.
- Children can move their own items on simple wood slats from station to station.
- Blue lamps and a spotlight on the top are also protected by grilles and metal slats allow officers to look outside.
Synonyms plank, beam, panel, batten, timber, length of timber, piece of wood, lath
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'roofing slate'): shortening of Old French esclat 'splinter', from esclater 'to split'. The current sense dates from the mid 18th century. Rhymes at, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat Definition of slat in US English: slatnounslætslat A thin, narrow piece of wood, plastic, or metal, especially one of a series which overlap or fit into each other, as in a fence or a Venetian blind. sunlight filtered dustily through the slats of the door Example sentencesExamples - In the meantime, other detainees loosened a metal slat in the fence.
- Lying on our showcase bed we search the ceiling for a glint of a camera lens among the pipes and metal slats.
- Overlapping slat design allows soft, indirect light to filter in.
- In fact, instead of conventional wings, Smith went for 120 slats like a venetian blind.
- I smiled down at him, and continued pacing on the narrow whitewashed slats of the wooden fence.
- All of these windows are in infrared wavelengths, and they are narrow, like the gaps between the slats of a fence.
- With a wall of painted wood slats, the space can be converted instantly into a gallery of hanging pictures.
- Children can move their own items on simple wood slats from station to station.
- Houses had thatched roofs - thick straw piled high with no wood slats or sheathing underneath.
- It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
- The walls were paneled with word wood slats, and the floor was covered in dark yellow sand.
- You can plant the roses at the base of a fence and weave their canes between the slats.
- Blue lamps and a spotlight on the top are also protected by grilles and metal slats allow officers to look outside.
- Its arms followed the curve of the seat, and the back had six to nine spindles or slats topped by a large crest rail.
- It has two or three-inch fabric slats suspended between two pieces of sheer fabric.
- Between each thin slat of wood, there was a small gap.
- There are usually bunk beds or thin mattresses on wood slats.
- One step forward and she realized she was balancing on a slat of wood.
- Imagine a wooden door, they are the boards or slats that make up the door minus the paneled areas.
- His brows furrowed and he went back to hammering a wood slat on the house.
Synonyms plank, beam, panel, batten, timber, length of timber, piece of wood, lath
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘roofing slate’): shortening of Old French esclat ‘splinter’, from esclater ‘to split’. The current sense dates from the mid 18th century. |