slot
(verb) assign a time slot; “slot a television program”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
slotting
present participle of slot
slotting (plural slottings)
allocation to a slot
Source: Wiktionary
Slot"ting, n.
Definition: The act or process of making slots, or mortises.
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
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
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.
