slot

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɒt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slutą. Cognate with German Schloss (“door-bolt”), Dutch slot.

The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).

Noun

slot (plural slots)

  1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
  2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
  3. (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
  4. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
  5. (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
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Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

  1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
  2. (obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.
    to slot a door

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). Compare sleuth.

Noun

slot (plural slots)

  1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
  2. A gap in a schedule or sequence.
  3. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  4. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  5. (computing) 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. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
    I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
  7. (slang) The vagina.
    • 2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165:
      She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.
    • 2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20:
      Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.
  8. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
    • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
      Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer
      Hath left his slot beside the way;
      The little Ermine now is seen
      White wanderer of the snow; […]
      And hark! the rosy-breasted bird,
      The Throstle of sweet song!
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
    • 2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212:
      But by then Niënor had passed away like a wraith; and neither sight nor slot of her could they find, though they hunted far northward and searched for many days.
  9. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
    • 1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111:
      By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.
    • 1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161:
      Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.
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Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

  1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
  2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
  3. To put something where it belongs.
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎[1]:
      And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
  4. (slang, Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
    • 1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31:
      One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."
  5. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
    • 1967 June, “Australians' Autumn Journeys Have Perilous Moments”, in Antarctic‎[2], volume 4, number 10, New Zealand Antarctic Society, pages 503–504:
      The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out.
    • 2012, Hazel Edwards, Antarctica's Frozen Chosen:
      I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.

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Danish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slot (“a bolt, lock, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *slut- (“to close”).

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Noun

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

  1. castle
  2. palace
  3. manor house

Inflection

Declension of slot
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative slot slottet slotte slottene
genitive slots slottets slottes slottenes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slot, from Old Dutch *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą.

Pronunciation

Noun

slot n (plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)

  1. lock (something used for fastening)
  2. castle
  3. end, conclusion

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