Slot

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English

Noun

Slot (plural Slots)
  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. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
  4. (slang, surfing) surfing term for the barrel or tube of a wave.

Verb

Slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

  1. (obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
  2. To put something where it belongs.
    • 2010 Chris Whyatt Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
    And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

Noun

Slot (plural Slots)
  1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
  2. A gap in a schedule or sequence.
  3. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  4. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  5. (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.
  6. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
  7. (slang) The vagina.
    • 2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man (page 165)
      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, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters (page 20)
      Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.

Derived terms

Verb

Slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

  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)

Noun

Slot (plural Slots)
  1. The track of an animal, especially a deer.
    • 1819: “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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Thesaurus

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, from West Germanic. Cognate with German Schloss (“door-bolt”).

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot, of unknown origin.

Etymology 3

From Old French esclot, from Old Norse slóð (“track”). Compare sleuth.

Translations

Noun

wooden bar for fastening door
broad bolt or bar, crosspiece

Noun

narrow depression, perforation, or aperture
the allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway
A slot machine designed for gambling

Noun

the track of an animal, especially a deer

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Danish

Noun

Slot n. (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

  1. castle
  2. palace
  3. manor house

Inflection

    Inflection of Slot
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative Slot slottet slotte slottene
genitive Slots slottets slottes slottenes

Dutch

Noun

Slot n. (plural sloten, diminutive slotje, diminutive plural slotjes)

  1. lock
    de deur op slot doen - to lock up the door
  2. castle
  3. conclusion

Etymology

slot from sluiten (to close) sluiten familiar with Latin claudere (sluiten) and Russian kljuc (key)

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