English Explanatory Dictionary

slot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
  2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
  3. Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
  4. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
  5. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
  6. The vagina.
  7. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  8. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
  9. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  10. The barrel or tube of a wave.
  11. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
  12. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
verb
  1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
  2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
  3. To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
  4. To put something where it belongs.
  5. To kill.
  6. To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
  7. To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
noun
  1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
  2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
  3. An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
  4. A fort or castle.
verb
  1. To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
  2. To shut with violence; to slam.

Pronunciation

/slɒt/ /slɑt/ en-us-slot.ogg

Word forms

slot slots slotting slotted slote

Etymology

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

Antonyms

tab

Related words

close sluice

Derived words

bean slot coin-in-the-slot coin-slot coin slot credit card slot death slot delay slot expansion slot God slot graveyard slot multislot nickel-in-the-slot penny-in-the-slot machine penny slot save slot slot canyon slot car slot-car slot-hound slot jockey slotless slotlike slot-loading disc drive slot machine slot pair slot racing slot time slotwise time-slot time slot T-slot slotback deslot mail slot reslot slot in slottable slotter slotting machine unslot

Translations

Bulgarian: резе Chinese Mandarin: 门闩 Chinese Mandarin: 門閂 /门闩 Finnish: telki French: barre German: Türriegel Italian: chiavistello Russian: засо́в Russian: запо́р Russian: задви́жка Russian: щеко́лда
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