Sekirov Dictionary

slot

UK /slɒt/US /slɑt/

noun 19
verb 9
forms 3
phrases 1

noun19

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
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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.
The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
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A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- The game offers four save slots.
In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
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A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner. — 1963
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A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did. — 2006
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[in the plural] (informal) 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.
A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
(slang) The vulva.
(slang) The barrel or tube of a wave.
A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
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The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer Hath left his slot beside the way; The little Ermine now is seen White wanderer of the snow; […] And hark! the rosy-breasted bird, The Throstle of sweet song! — 1801
The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
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.
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(no longer used) A fort or castle.
- Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay. — 1578

verb9

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).
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To put something where it belongs.
- And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. — 2010
To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
(informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
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(UK, slang) To kill.
- Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'. — 2012
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To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess. — 2012
(dialect, no longer used) To shut with violence; to slam.
(Scotland, no longer used) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.

forms

slotted · slotting · slots

Phrases with slot

slot in
To put something into a slot.

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