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Audio Help [slat] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, slat·ted, slat·ting.

–noun

1.	a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.

2.	Aeronautics. a control surface along the leading edge of a wing that can be extended forward to create a gap (slot) to improve airflow.

slats, Slang.

the ribs.

b.	the buttocks.

c.	(initial capital letter) a nickname for a tall, slender man.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to furnish or make with slats.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME sclat, slatt a slate < MF esclat splinter, fragment; see éclat

]

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Audio Help [slat] Pronunciation Key verb, slat·ted, slat·ting, noun Chiefly British Dialect

–verb (used with object)

1.	to throw or dash with force.

–verb (used without object)

2.	to flap violently, as sails.

–noun

3.	a slap; a sharp blow.

[Origin: 1815–25; < ON sletta to splash, strike

]

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slat Audio Help (slāt) Pronunciation Key
n.

A narrow strip of metal or wood, as in a Venetian blind.
A movable auxiliary airfoil running along the leading edge of the wing of an airplane.
slats Slang The ribs.

tr.v. slat·ted, slat·ting, slats
To provide or make with slats: slatting the back of a chair.

[Middle English sclat, from Old French esclat, splinter, probably of Germanic origin.]

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slat

1382, "a roofing slate," from O.Fr. esclat "split piece, splinter," back-formation from esclater "to break, splinter, burst," probably from Frank. *slaitan "to tear, slit," related to O.H.G. slizan, O.E. slitan (see slit). Meaning "long, thin, narrow piece of wood or metal" attested from 1764.

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slat
noun
1.	a thin strip (wood or metal)
verb
1.	equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"
2.	close the slats of (windows)

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slat [slӕt] noun

a thin strip of wood, metal etc

Arabic:	شَريحَةٌ من الخَشَب أو المَعْدَن
Chinese (Simplified):	(木)、金属）条板
Chinese (Traditional):	(木、金屬)條板
Czech:	lišta, lamela
Danish:	liste
Dutch:	lat
Estonian:	liist(ak)
Finnish:	säle, liuska
French:	lame(lle)
German:	die Leiste
Greek:	λωρίδα, πηχάκι
Hungarian:	léc
Icelandic:	renningur, ræma
Indonesian:	kepingan tipis
Italian:	assicella, stecca

Japanese:	板
Korean:	엷은 널빤지
Latvian:	līstīte; latiņa
Lithuanian:	malksna, lentelė, lota
Norwegian:	sprinkel, sprosse
Polish:	listwa
Portuguese (Brazil):	lâmina
Portuguese (Portugal):	ripa
Romanian:	şipcă, stinghie
Russian:	планка, перекладина
Slovak:	lišta, lamela
Slovenian:	letvica
Spanish:	tablilla, listón
Swedish:	spjäla, lamell
Turkish:	çıta, tiriz