A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
Used in a Sentence
slat
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for slat.
Editorial note
The roll-up is a bunch of slat and looks much more busy.
Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of slat gathered in one view.
To construct or provide with slats.
To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for slat.
noun
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
verb
To construct or provide with slats.
verb
To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
verb
To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
Example sentences
The roll-up is a bunch of slat and looks much more busy.
But my kitchen table chair is little more than a slat of wood cut to a comfortable shape.
Most of them were built before the 70s and have plaster-on-slat walls with lead paint on top.
After initial criticism from quite a few experienced people Boyan Slat toned down his claims.
How do I feed in a mesh or something and it outputs an algorithmically generated slat furniture?
Not sure how effective it will be on a slat base.
The partial electrical power failure, produced by the separation of the left engine, meant that neither the stall warning nor the slat retraction indicator was operative.
Boyan Slat could expand the plastic collection to space.
Top panel is held with wide screws, 4 on each post (the fittings underneath had holes already), the shelf with the PC has a slat underneath which slots between the two horizontal bars.
From there I think you could experiment with different widths, heights and depths and eventually come away able to build a slat-based piece of furniture with a text editor.
You will gradually get from normal military columns to BMPs and MT-LBs (Tractor for pulling artillery) to Dessert Crosses (golf carts), trucks, old tanks with huge amount of slat armor to soak the FPVs (Assault Barns) followed by BMPs dropping current suicide squad to quickly drive away before it will get hit by artillery or FPV to having suicide squads on bikes today.
Quote examples
Interesting bit from the article: "The height of my porn watching was my adolescence -- high school -- when each relationship felt like a splintering slat on a long rickety bridge.
Proper noun examples
It rumored to have VC funding from Besos, but that doesn't give them special access to Amazon nor Amazon special access to Slat.
If you look at this cynically you will get nowhere, but if you realize something like this can inspire the next Boyan Slat, it’s fantastic.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use slat in a sentence?
The roll-up is a bunch of slat and looks much more busy.
What does slat mean?
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
What part of speech is slat?
slat is commonly used as noun, verb.