slot
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[edit] English
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- IPA: /slɒt/
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- Rhymes: -ɒt
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle Low German slot or Middle (and modern) Dutch slot, from West Germanic. Cognate with German Schloss ‘door-bolt’.
[edit] Noun
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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.
- (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
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wooden bar for fastening door
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to slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)
- (obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
[edit] Etymology 2
From Old French esclot, of unknown origin.
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slot (plural slots)
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- (aviation) In a flying display, the forth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
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narrow depression, perforation, or aperture
the allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway
[edit] Etymology 3
From Old French esclot, from Old Norse slóð ‘track’. Compare sleuth.
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slot (plural slots)
- The track of an animal, especially a deer.
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- 1819: “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
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the track of an animal, especially a deer
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[edit] Danish
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slot n. (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)
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Inflection of “slot”
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het slot n. (plural sloten, diminutive slotje)
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- sleutel m.

