slot
IPA: sɫˈɑt
noun
- 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.
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
- The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- (slang) The vagina.
- (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
- (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
- (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
- (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine, a game of chance played for money using a coin slot. [Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially]
verb
- (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
- (obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.
- 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)
- To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
- To put something where it belongs.
- (slang, Britain, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
- (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
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Examples of "slot" in Sentences
- Not every slot is equal when it comes to exiting the parking lot.
- : title, which refers to the title slot defined in BASIC-WINDOW-FEATURES-MIXIN.
- Any idea how its going to intake a gamecube disc if the slot is the size of a normal DVD?
- Put a piece of wire of an electronic lighter into the coin slot, switch it on, and you got yourself a free game.
- Ultra low-cost Irish carrier RyanAir is thinking about putting a coin slot on lavatory doors so passengers will have to pay when they empty their loose change from their coin slot.
- The reason many people no longer stick to the time-slot is their DVR, but also increasingly sites like Hulu, Joost, Fancast, CBS, NBC, etc. all of which are run by (or have deals with) the content owners.
- So, no, I didn't edit Son of Man at all, but the choice to reprint this classic and under appreciated work, which makes my Top Twenty list for the best and most visionary of 20th Century SF, as opposed to the nigh-infinite number of other books that could have filled the slot, is the result of the "editorial process" here.
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