slat

1. 1.

   equip or bar with slats

   “Slat the windows”

   Broadersupply
2. 2.

   close the slats of (windows)

   Broaderclose

1. 1.

   a thin strip (wood or metal)

   Synonymsspline

   Broaderstrip

   Narrowerlathlouversplatstave

   Part ofVenetian blind

Other forms of slat

plural

slats·

past tense or participle

slatted

present participle

slatting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slat

What does slat mean?

slat means "equip or bar with slats". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slat?

slat has 1 syllable: slat. In IPA it is /ˈslæt/.

What is another word for slat?

Close synonyms include spline. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slat a common word?

slat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.