slat

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[edit] English

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[edit] Noun

slat (plural slats)

  1. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal.
    slats of a window blind
  2. (aeronautical) A moveable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord line of the airfoil, affecting the angle of attack. Employed in conjunction with flaps to allow for a lower stall speed in the landing attitude, facilitating slow flight.

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slat (third-person singular simple present slats, present participle slatting, simple past and past participle slatted)

  1. To construct or provide with slats.

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[edit] Irish

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slat f.

  1. rod, slender stick
  2. cane, switch
  3. wand
  4. slender bar, rod
  5. rail
  6. sapling, slip, scion
  7. (anatomy) penis
  8. (measurement) yard
  9. (plural) outskirts

[edit] Declension

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative slat slata
Vocative a shlat a shlata
Genitive slaite slat
Dative slat slata

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tslat na slata
Genitive na slaite na slat
Dative leis an tslat

don tslat

leis na slata

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
slat shlat
after "an", tslat
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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[edit] Old English

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slāt

  1. Preterite of slitan

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[edit] Noun

slat f. (genitive slait or slaite, plural slatan)

  1. stick, rod, twig, switch, wand
  2. (measurement): yard
  3. (vulgar, slang, anatomy) penis

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