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slot

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What does slot mean?

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. (informal) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
More meanings (25)

noun

  1. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
  2. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
  3. (slang) The vulva.
  4. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  5. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
  6. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  7. (slang) The barrel or tube of a wave.
  8. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
  9. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
  10. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
  11. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
  12. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
  13. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
  14. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
  15. An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
  16. (obsolete) A fort or castle.

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. (slang) To kill.
  6. To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
  7. (informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
  8. (obsolete) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
  9. (obsolete) To shut with violence; to slam.
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I deemed it advisable to use stout cord instead of wire in the future and made a protective slot for the weight.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137
At the Dalles the vast river is jammed together into a long, narrow slot of unknown depth cut sheer down in the basalt.
John MuirSteep TrailsProject Gutenberg ebook #326
More book examples (3)
By dropping a penny in the slot, the gas was forthcoming, and when a penny’s worth had forthcome the supply was automatically shut off.
Jack LondonThe People of the AbyssProject Gutenberg ebook #1688
Soap and water as a lubricator continues to drop into the recess of the slot, and is always in its right place to assist the cutting of the drill.
James NasmythJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyProject Gutenberg ebook #476
It cannot be denied that the prophecy was fulfilled, for the cable was the beginning of the frightful financial collapse of the system, and was torn out in a few years to make way for the triumphant "trolley in the slot."
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820