slot

/slɒt/

noun

  1. 1

    A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.

  2. 2

    A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.

  3. 3

    An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.

  4. 4

    A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.

  5. 5

    The barrel or tube of a wave.

verb

  1. 1

    To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.

  2. 2

    To shut with violence; to slam.

    to slot a door

noun

  1. 1

    A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.

  2. 2

    A gap in a schedule or sequence.

  3. 3

    The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.

  4. 4

    In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.

  5. 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. 6

    A slot machine designed for gambling.

    I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
  7. 7

    The vagina.

  8. 8

    The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.

  9. 9

    (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

verb

  1. 1

    To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)

  2. 2

    To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)

  3. 3

    To put something where it belongs.

  4. 4

    (Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.

  5. 5

    (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.

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