different between slatting vs swatting

English

Verb

slatting

1. present participle of slat

Noun

slatting (plural slattings)

1. An arrangement of slats.
2. The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail when being hauled down.
   • 2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing (page 39)

     Weakened by the strains of sailing in a severe gale and, no doubt, by the accumulated bangings and endless slattings of the previous year's ocean calms, the top batten had fractured, creating an ineffective and unsightly deep V shape in the top sail panel.

Anagrams

• sattling

English

Etymology

swat +? -ing

Pronunciation

Verb

swatting

1. present participle of swat

Noun

swatting (plural swattings)

1. A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     This […] evoked a new disorder — a tendency to sudden, tic-like jabbings and swattings in the air, as if she were fending off flies or mosquitoes.

2. (slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.