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Definition: Lath |
LathNoun1. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lath" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | Wire netting combined with a predominating proportion of concrete. Source: European Union. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | (X-ray densitometry)Very thin, narrow strip of wood cut from increment cores or from stem discs, perpendicular to the direction of the fibers, and used in x-ray densitometry. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building | One of a number of thin narrow strips of wood nailed to rafters, ceiling joists, wall studs, etc. to make a groundwork or key for slates, tiles, or plastering. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | Batten applied as a base for the alto-element of shingles, slates or tiles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Lath or ~~~Lathe. Lathe. A division of a county. Sometimes it was an intermediate division between a hundred and a shire, as the lathes of Kent and rapes of Sussex, each of which contained three or four "hundreds" apiece. In Ireland the arrangement was different. The officer over a lath was called a lathreeve. (Anglo-Saxon læth, a canton.) "If all that tything failed, then all that lath was charged for that tything; and if the lath failed, then all that hundred was demanded for them [i.e. turbulent fellows], and if the hundred, then the shire.- Spenser: Ireland. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A board or plank sharpened at one end, like sheet piling, used in roofing levels or in protecting the sides of a shaft through a stratum of unstable earth. See:spillb. A long, thin mineral crystal. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | German (Latte, die). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LATH | English | Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health Ltd | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Filament | Strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving. |
Narrowness Thinness | Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lath |
| English words defined with "lath": Dagger of lath ♦ Eaves board ♦ lath and plaster, Lath brick, Lath nail, Lathed, Lathing, Laths, Lath-shaped, Lathy ♦ Spale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lath": asphalt-machine operator ♦ COMPOSITION-STONE APPLICATOR ♦ IMPREGNATING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ lath frame ♦ plasterer, stucco ♦ seeding lath, sowing lath, STUCCO MASON, stucco worker, SUPERVISOR, BOARD MILL ♦ TILE FINISHER, tile fitter, tile layer, tile mason, tile mechanic helper, TILE SETTER, tile setter helper ♦ Wooden Sword. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lath": latten. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lath" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Cornish (yard), Scottish (benumb). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Detail of construction of old house; note the wooden cross lath. The construction material composed of mud and native moss. Near Edgard, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Lath" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Lath" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.94% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lath": Dagger of lath ♦ eaves lath ♦ lath and plaster ♦ Lath brick ♦ lath fence ♦ lath hammer ♦ Lath nail ♦ seeding lath ♦ sowing lath ♦ wooden lath. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lath": lath-and-plaster, lath-back, Lath-shaped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
lath | 43 |
metal lath | 16 |
lath and plaster | 9 |
lath metal western | 6 |
lath wood | 4 |
k lath | 4 |
lath rock | 4 |
gypsum lath | 3 |
diamond lath | 3 |
details furring lath | 3 |
art lath | 3 |
lath plaster repair | 2 |
house lath | 2 |
lath machine metal | 2 |
lath photo plastering | 2 |
lath machine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lath"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | listelë (furring, slat), rrjetë teli (chicken wire, lattice, wire, wiring), qepër (plate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كسا بشرائح خشبية, مجموعة شرائح خشبية, الشريحة الخشبية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | летва (batten, slat), покривам с летви. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 板條 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tyèka (picket, rail, stake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | laegte (batten), taglaegte, betonvaev (mesh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lat (batten, local area transport, longitudinal slat, plank, slat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | lato (slat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | توفال کوبی کردن (Shingle), توفال (Shim, Shingle, Slat, Spall, Splint), اهن نبشی (Splint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ruode, riuku (pole, slat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | latte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Latte (bar, batten, flight, longitudinal slat, paddle, scraper, slat, straight edge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σανιδώνω (batten, board, board up), γρίλια (air grille, drain, grille, sunblind), βέργα (ferule, knife back, pointer, rail, rod, shoot, switch, twig, wattle, wire, with), ξυλοσανίδα, πέταυρο (shingle, thin board), πηχάκι (batten, fillet, pencil slat, slat), πηχίσκος, πήχη (batten, cover plate, fishplate), λεπτή σανίσ, διχτυωτό (mesh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פסיס (parapet, slat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lécezés (lathing), lécel, léc (batten, slat, spacer, splint, stave, stretcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bilah (classifier for long, knife blade, wood chip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | listello del tetto, listello (batten, crosser, fillet, groin, piling stick, piling strip, pin, slat, stacking strip, sticker, strip), lamella (flake, lamella), traliccio (braced structure, framework, framework structure, framing, gratings, grid, grids, jean, lattice, latticed, mesh, pole, post, pylon, skeleton structure, ticking, tower, transmission tower, transmission-line tower, trellis, trestle, truss, wire fencing), panconcello, correntino del tetto, assicella (board, clapboard, splint, strip), ascella (armpit, axil, axilla). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thooaney (rib), thooane (rib), speilt (bavin, chip, chipping, lacerated), skeiltan (splint), riblass, latt (ceiling rack, rack), cur thooane er, cur riblass er. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lekte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athlay ripa (batten, hatch batten, screed, shingle, slat), sarrafo (batten, shingle, slat). (various references) leaţ (lathing), laţ (gin, link, loop, noose, sling, snare, springe, trap, wire), şipcã (chip, lag, lathing, slat, strip). (various references) дранка (shingle, shingles). (various references) letva (batten), motka (bar, perch, perk, pole, sprit, staff, stave, stick). (various references) tabla (board, chart, deal, index, panel, plank, register, rule, schedule, seat, shelf, slat, table, tablet), listón (batten, cleat, fillet, longitudinal slat, moulding, ribbon, slat, strip). (various references) spjäla (slat, splint), ribba (rib, web). (various references) ไม้ระแนง, คลุม"้วยไม้ระแนง. (various references) lata (robe, slat, tie), tiriz (batten, mullion, slat), kafes (bird cage, cage, coop, grating, grill, grille, hutch, jail, lattice, mew, pen, trellis), çıta (slat, slip, stave, stick). (various references) рейка (batten, cleat, rail, spline), обшивка (casing, clothing, covering, encasement, lagging, overcast, revetment, sheathing, welting), планка (batten, cleat, ledge, splint, splinter, stave, strip). (various references) lati, mèn. (various references) eisen (rib), dellten (lattice, splinter), aseth (spar, stake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | latta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lath": lathe, lathed, lather, lathered, latherer, latherers, lathering, lathers, lathery, lathes, lathi, lathier, lathiest, lathing, lathings, lathis, laths, lathwork, lathworks, lathy, lathyrism, lathyrisms, lathyritic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lath": blather, blathered, blatherer, blatherers, blathering, blathers, blatherskite, blatherskites, calathi, calathos, calathus, clathrate, clathrates, flathead, flatheads, malathion, malathions, slather, slathered, slathering, slathers. (additional references) | |
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"Lath" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ath, blath, clath, Cliath, gath, klath, Kleth, laat, laatu, labh, Lach, Ladh, lagh, lahh, lahr, Lahti, laih, lakh, lakt, Latc, Latha, lathi, lati, Lato, latr, latt, lawt, laxt, lcat, leath, lehti, leth, letxh, liht, lilth, lirh, lith, lonth, lotho, lowth, lta, lty, Luhta, Luhti, luth, vath. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lath" (pronounced la"th) |
| 2 | -a" th | bath, hath, math, path, Rath, wrath. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: halt. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-t" | |
-1 letter: alt, hat, lat. | |
-2 letters: ah, al, at, ha, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-t" | |
+1 letter: altho, halts, laith, latch, lathe, lathi, laths, lathy, loath, lotah, shalt. | |
+2 letters: alight, althea, chalet, chalot, chital, daleth, halest, halite, hallot, halted, halter, halutz, hamlet, hantle, harlot, hartal, haslet, hatful, health, hiatal, hyetal, klatch, lathed, lather, lathes, lathis, latish, lethal, lithia, loathe, lotahs, maltha, shelta, slatch, tahsil, thaler, thalli, thecal, thenal, thrall, thulia, wealth, withal. | |
+3 letters: alights, aliyoth, alright, althaea, altheas, althorn, anethol, anthill, asphalt, athlete, bathyal, benthal, blather, calathi, canthal, chaetal, chalets, challot, chaloth, chalutz, chaplet, chattel, chelate, chitals, cholate, claucht, claught, daleths, deathly, earthly, enthral, ethanol, ethical, ghastly, gnathal, halbert, halibut, halites, halitus, halloth, haltere, halters, halting, hamlets, hantles, haplite, haplont, harlots, harslet, hartals, haslets, hastily, hatable, hatchel, hateful, hatfuls, hatless, hatlike, hatsful, hayloft, healths, healthy, heeltap, heliast, hellcat, hematal, hyalite, inthral, klatsch, laithly, latched, latches, latchet, lathers, lathery, lathier, lathing, leather, lethals, lethean, lithias, loathed, loather, loathes, loathly, malthas, naphtol, outhaul, philtra, potlach, rathole, saltish, satchel, shallot, sheltas, shmaltz, slather, spathal, stealth, tahsils, tallish, tallith, tallyho, taphole, thalami, thalers, thallic, thallus, thermal, thiazol, thralls, thulias, trachle, trehala, trochal, unlatch, wealths, wealthy, woolhat. | |
+4 letters: acrolith, aerolith, alcahest, alighted, alkahest, allopath, almighty, alphabet, althaeas, althorns, although, anethole, anethols, anthelia, anthelix, antheral, anthills, apholate, ashplant, asphalts, atheling, athletes, athletic, bathless, biathlon, blathers, bolthead, cachalot, calathos, calathus, calthrop, catchall, catchfly, catechol, cathodal, catholic, challoth, chaplets, chastely, chattels, chattily, chelated, chelates, chelator, chevalet, chiliast, chlorate, cholates, claughts, daylight, deathful, earthily, elephant, enthalpy, enthrall, enthrals, eschalot, ethanols, ethereal, ethicals, ethnical, ethylate, exhalant, exhalent, faithful, fanlight, fatherly, fishtail, flatfish, flathead, flattish, flatwash, gaslight, ghastful, gilthead, golgotha, habitual, haematal, halachot, halakhot, halakist, halakoth, halation, halberts, halftime, halftone, halibuts, haltered, halteres, haltless, halutzim, hamulate, handlist, haplites, haplonts, haptical, harlotry, harslets, hasteful, hatchels, hateable, haylofts, hazelnut, heartily, heatable, heatedly, heatless, hectical, heeltaps, heliasts, hellcats, helotage, helpmate, hightail, hilarity, holdfast, horntail, hospital, hotelman, huntable, hyalites, inhalant, inthrall, inthrals, kathodal, klatches, lanthorn, latchets, latching, latchkey, lathered, latherer, lathiest, lathings, lathwork, laughter, leachate, leathern, leathers, leathery, lethally, lethargy, litharge, lithemia, loathers, loathful, loathing, lothario, megalith, methanol, methylal, mothball, mythical, naphthol, naphthyl, naphtols, nathless, oothecal, outhauls, outlaugh, pamphlet, patchily, pathless, phallist, phratral, phthalic, phthalin, planchet, plethora, polymath, potlache, potlatch, ratholes, saltbush, satchels, schmaltz, shaliest, shallots, shetland, shmaltzy, shoalest, shoptalk, slatches, slathers, stablish, stanchly, stealths, stealthy, sulphate, taiglach, talliths, tallyhos, tapholes, teiglach, telepath, thalamic, thalamus, thallium, thalloid, thallous, thankful, thawless, thermals, thetical, thiazole, thiazols, thinclad, thirlage, thoracal, thraldom, thralled, thrawnly, thwartly, tithable, toolhead, tracheal, trachled, trachles, trashily, trauchle, trehalas, trochlea, turnhall, ultrahip, ultrahot, unlethal, urethral, watchful, whiptail, woolhats, wrathful, wrathily, zenithal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 74 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- - .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110100 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a t h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0074 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46678674 |
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