Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slat
Participle: slatted
Gerund: slatting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | slat |
| you | slat |
| he;she;it | slats |
| we | slat |
| you | slat |
| they | slat |
Perfect
| I | have slatted |
| you | have slatted |
| he;she;it | has slatted |
| we | have slatted |
| you | have slatted |
| they | have slatted |
Past
| I | slatted |
| you | slatted |
| he;she;it | slatted |
| we | slatted |
| you | slatted |
| they | slatted |
Pluperfect
| I | had slatted |
| you | had slatted |
| he;she;it | had slatted |
| we | had slatted |
| you | had slatted |
| they | had slatted |
Future
| I | will slat |
| you | will slat |
| he;she;it | will slat |
| we | will slat |
| you | will slat |
| they | will slat |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slatted |
| you | will have slatted |
| he;she;it | will have slatted |
| we | will have slatted |
| you | will have slatted |
| they | will have slatted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slat |
| you | slat |
| he;she;it | slat |
| we | slat |
| you | slat |
| they | slat |
Perfect
| I | have slatted |
| you | have slatted |
| he;she;it | have slatted |
| we | have slatted |
| you | have slatted |
| they | have slatted |
Imperfect
| I | slatted |
| you | slatted |
| he;she;it | slatted |
| we | slatted |
| you | slatted |
| they | slatted |
Pluperfect
| I | had slatted |
| you | had slatted |
| he;she;it | had slatted |
| we | had slatted |
| you | had slatted |
| they | had slatted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slat |
| you | would slat |
| he;she;it | would slat |
| we | would slat |
| you | would slat |
| they | would slat |
Perfect
| I | would have slatted |
| you | would have slatted |
| he;she;it | would have slatted |
| we | would have slatted |
| you | would have slatted |
| they | would have slatted |
Imperative
| you | slat |
| we | Let's slat |
| you | slat |
Verbs conjugated like 'slat'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'slat'
blat,
flat,
lat,
plat,
scat,
seat,
slab,
slag,
slam,
slant,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English slatte, sklatte, sklat, sclat, from Old French esclat (“piece broken or split off, shiver, splinter”), from Old French esclater (“to split, burst”), from Frankish *slaitijan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to rend, split”). Doublet of slate and éclat. See: Proto-Germanic '
*slītaną'.
Sample Sentences
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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? [c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:]
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[…] a nudge o' kissing-crust After thy leeky broth: I've warmed thy porridge on tha trivet, Jimmy, zay prayers avore 'e have it, And doant 'e slat tha clath. [1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, page 35:]
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[…] slatting water over everything in the dory. [1921, Raymond McFarland, Sons of the Sea, page 147:]
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[…] by the sound she knew that he was slatting water from his oilskins. "Thanks. A wet day, sir." The door closed. He must have entered without invitation and shut the door behind him. [1923 August 11, The Saturday Evening Post, page 88:]
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Mac stood over me, slatting water off his arms, his face purple. [1953, Rogers Terrill, The Argosy Book of Sea Stories, page 136:]
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The hose came in hand over hand, as the sailormen say, and in a few moments the end came switching down on them, slatting water in all directions. [2011 October 1, William Hope Hodgson, The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates & Other Revenants of The Sea, Start Publishing LLC, →ISBN:]
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[…] sending solid grey water slatting against her wheelhouse windows. [1938, Outdoor Life:]
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[…] water slatting over the rail. The salt caked on her face and when the sun came up, it was as though her face was being pot-roasted - with salt. [1943 04, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine:]
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[…] rain slatting down in the weed-grown garden. [2003, Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 8:]
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[…] rain slatting against the outside of the window. [2008 September 30, Zoe Sharp, Second Shot: A Charlie Fox Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 31:]
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Both head-peeces and habergeons were slat and dashed a peeces. [1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:]