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# slat

noun (a slat, slats)

«slat» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#x1)
- One of the bed slats broke when we jumped on the bed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#x2)
- The park bench has green wooden slats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#x3)
- The cat peeped through the slats of the fence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#x4)
- Tilt the slats to let in more light. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#x5)
- We made a bird table from old slats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#x6)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/#x7)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «slat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«slat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/slat.html) on Mova free.