s．lat．の英語

発音

• IPA^(key): /slæt/
  • 韻: -æt

名詞

slat (複数形 slats)

1. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.

   slats of a window blind

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 208:

     To keep people out, the Nature Conservancy, which owns the cave, has blocked off the entrance with huge iron slats.

2. (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
3. (skiing, slang) A ski.
   • 2005, Richard V. Shriver, Gold to Refine, page 31:

     I never got down that hill without losing at least one of my skis! Clarence didn't lose his slats. The straps went over his boots and held them in place. If he fell, he risked breaking a foot or leg, but the slats stayed on.

4. A thin piece of stone; a slate.

派生語

• slatback
• slatless

動詞

slat (三人称単数 現在形 slats, 現在分詞 slatting, 過去形および過去分詞形 slatted)

1. To construct or provide with slats.
2. To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:

     Men[dozo]. How did you kill him? / Mal[evole]. Slatted his braines out, then ſowſt him in the brinie ſea. / Men. Braind him and drownd him too?

3. (Britain, dialectal) To split; to crack.
   • 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, Philemon Holland, transl., The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:

     Both head-peeces and habergeons were slat and dashed a peeces.

4. To set on; to incite.

アナグラム

• Alts, LTAs, SALT, Salt, TLAs, alts, last, lats, salt

動詞

slāt

1. first/third-person singular preterite of slītan