slot
(noun) a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); “he put a quarter in the slot”
slot, one-armed bandit
(noun) a slot machine that is used for gambling; “they spend hours and hours just playing the slots”
slot, expansion slot
(noun) (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; “the PC had three slots for additional memory”
slot
(noun) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; “he developed a version of slot grammar”
slot
(noun) the trail of an animal (especially a deer); “he followed the deer’s slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees”
slot
(noun) a position in a hierarchy or organization; “Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks”; “she beat some tough competition for the number one slot”
slot
(verb) assign a time slot; “slot a television program”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
(Scotland, Northern England) An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)
(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.
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.
(informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
(slang) The vagina.
The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
(Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
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)
To put something where it belongs.
(slang, Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
(Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
• LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lost, lots, tols
Source: Wiktionary
Slot, n. Etym: [LG. & D. slot a lock, from a verb meaning to close., to shut, D. sluiten; akin to G. schliessen, OHG. sliozan, OFries. sl, and probably to L. claudere. Cf. Close, Sluice.]
1. A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
2. A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
Slot, v. t. Etym: [See Slot a bar.]
Definition: To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Slot, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. sl, and E. sleuth.]
Definition: The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. Milton. As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 November 2024
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
