slot
noun
- 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
An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- 4
A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- 5
The barrel or tube of a wave.
verb
- 1
To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
- 2
To shut with violence; to slam.
“to slot a door”
noun
- 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
The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- 4
In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- 5
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
A slot machine designed for gambling.
“I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.”
- 7
The vagina.
- 8
The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- 9
(Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
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 put something where it belongs.
- 4
(Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
- 5
(Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
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