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Definition: SLOAT |
SLOATNoun1. A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart. |
Note: Sloat \Sloat\, noun. [See Slot bar.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SLOAT |
| Non-English Usage: "SLOAT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (puddle; cessation, puddle; cessation of rain, rock pool). |
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 | With twelve destroyers tied up alongside, during the early 1920s. The ships present include (from left to right): USS Jacob Jones (DD-130); USS Hull (DD-330); USS Thompson (DD-305); USS Corry (DD-334); USS Kennedy (DD-306); USS Reno (DD-303); USS Cuyama (AO-3; USS Stoddert (DD-302); USS Yarborough (DD-314); USS Sloat (DD-316); USS Litchfield (DD-336); USS Shubrick (DD-268); USS Young (DD-312);. Credit: NAVY. |  | Halftone reproduction of a 19th Century engraving, printed by Carruth & Carruth, Oakland, California, for the Sloat Memorial Association of Oakland. The original engraving was based on a painting on ivory owned by Commodore Stockton's son, the Hon. John P. Stockton. Stockton relieved Commodore John D. Sloat as commander of the Pacific Squadron in July 1847. Credit: NAVY. |
 | E.Z. Sloat. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SLOAT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sloat | Last name | 1,000 | 8,024 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
center garden sloat | 11 |
sloat | 8 |
teri sloat | 7 |
garden sloat | 6 |
nursery sloat | 4 |
1569 sloat | 3 |
c gerald law office sloat | 2 |
c gerald p.c sloat | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words ending with "oat": Gloat, Goat, groat, Oat, shoat, stoat. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: altos, lotas, tolas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: also, alto, alts, last, lats, lost, lota, lots, oast, oats, salt, slat, slot, sola, stoa, taos, tola. | |
-2 letters: als, alt, las, lat, lot, oat, sal, sat, sol, sot, tao, tas. | |
-3 letters: al, as, at, la, lo, os, so, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: allots, almost, atolls, bloats, costal, floats, flotas, gloats, lotahs, lovats, oblast, osteal, postal, santol, skatol, smalto, solate, stomal, talons, tolans, tolars, totals. | |
+2 letters: abvolts, alastor, altoist, amatols, apostil, apostle, ballots, boatels, borstal, catalos, citolas, coastal, cobalts, daltons, etalons, flotsam, folates, galiots, galoots, gelatos, harlots, isolate, lactose, laptops, latigos, latinos, latosol, layouts, legatos, loathes, locates, locusta, loggats, loquats, maltols, maltose, mortals, oblasti, oblasts, oblates, oleates, oralist, outlast, outlaws, outlays, outsail, oxtails, oxysalt, patrols, pelotas, portals, postals, rialtos, rostral, saltbox, sandlot, santols, scrotal, shallot, skatole, skatols, smaltos, solated, solates, solatia, solvate, somital, stoical, stromal, tailors, talcose, talcous, talions, tallols, tallows, tapalos, tolanes, topsail, torulas, zealots. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 4F 41 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. --- .- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01001111 01000001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L O A T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 004F 0041 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5346493554 |
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