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Definitions and meaning of slot
slot
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /slɒt/
(US) IPA(key): /slɑt/
Rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishslot, from Middle Low Germanslot or Middle Dutchslot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic*slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną(“to lock”). Cognate with GermanSchloss(“door-bolt”), Dutchslot.
The verb is probably from Middle Dutchsluten(“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutchsluiten(“to close”)).
Alternative forms
slote(dialectal)
Noun
slot (pluralslots)
A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
(Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
Translations
Verb
slot (third-person singular simple presentslots, present participleslotting, simple past and past participleslotted)
(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.
to slot a door
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishslot, from Old Frenchesclot, likely from Old Norseslóð(“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth.
Noun
slot (pluralslots)
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
(gambling, informal, especially in the plural)Clipping of slot machine, a game of chance played for money using a coin slot.
The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
(Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
(slang) The vagina.
(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
(field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
(American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
(journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
slot (third-person singular simple presentslots, present participleslotting, simple past and past participleslotted)
To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
To put something where it belongs.
(slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
(Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
(Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
Derived terms
mail slot
slot in
slotter
slotting machine
See also
close
sluice
Anagrams
LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lost, lots, tols
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low Germanslot(“bolt, lock, castle”), from Proto-Germanic*slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną(“to lock”); cognate with Dutchslot(“lock, castle”) and GermanSchloss(“lock, castle”).