slot

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noun

Plural noun:

slotsslote

1.
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
insert tab A into slot B
2.
A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.
3.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, especially, in plural, informal)(gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
4.
The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
5.
(Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
6.
(slang)The vagina.
7.
(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
8.
(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
The game offers four save slots.
9.
(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
10.
(slang)(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
11.
(field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
12.
(American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.

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verb

V_es/s

slots

V_ing/Gerund

slotting

V_ed/pp

slottedslote

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.
(British, Rhodesia, slang)(slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
6.
(Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
7.
(informal)(Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
8.
(Northern England, Scotland, obsolete)To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
9.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To shut with violence; to slam.
to slot a door

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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.