slot

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Pronunciation
/slÉ’t/
Noun
14 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

2 Definition

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

3 Definition

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

4 Definition

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

5 Definition

The barrel or tube of a wave.

6 Definition

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

7 Definition

A gap in a schedule or sequence.

8 Definition

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

9 Definition

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

10 Definition

A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

Example Sentences
  • The game offers four save slots.
11 Definition

A slot machine designed for gambling.

Example Sentences
  • I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
12 Definition

The vagina.

13 Definition

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

14 Definition

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

Verb
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.

2 Definition

To shut with violence; to slam.

Example Sentences
  • to slot a door
3 Definition

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

4 Definition

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

5 Definition

To put something where it belongs.

6 Definition

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

7 Definition

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