Slot
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English
Noun
Slot (plural Slots)- 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.
- (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- (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)
- (obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
- 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)- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- A gap in a schedule or sequence.
- (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- (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.
- (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
- (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.
- 2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man (page 165)
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Verb
Slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)
- 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)
Noun
Slot (plural Slots)- 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.
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Danish
Noun
Slot n. (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)
Inflection
Dutch
Noun
Slot n. (plural sloten, diminutive slotje, diminutive plural slotjes)
- lock
- de deur op slot doen - to lock up the door
- castle
- conclusion
Etymology
slot from sluiten (to close) sluiten familiar with Latin claudere (sluiten) and Russian kljuc (key)
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- sleutel m.
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