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SLAT

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: slatted    , slatting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin strip (wood or metal)

Synonyms:

slat; spline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Equip or bar with slats

Example:

Slat the windows

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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))

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