slat

«slat» in Mova's school dictionary: A long, thin, flat strip of wood, metal or plastic… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a slat, slats)

meaning for a pupil

A long, thin, flat strip of wood, metal or plastic, usually one of a row with gaps between, as in a fence, bed, bench or blind. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, beds have slats under the mattress, Venetian blinds have slats you can tilt, and park benches have wooden slats. In design and technology, pupils build things using slats. Phrases: «wooden slats», «bed slats», «slats of the blind», «between the slats».

examples

• Sunlight shone through the slats of the blind. tree →
• One of the bed slats broke when we jumped on the bed. tree →
• The park bench has green wooden slats. tree →
• The cat peeped through the slats of the fence. tree →
• Tilt the slats to let in more light. tree →
• We made a bird table from old slats. tree →
• 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. tree →

note

Countable. Adjective «slatted» (a slatted fence). Do not confuse with «slate» (a grey stone used on roofs) or «slant» (a slope).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.