Slot

/slɒt/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
3. (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
4. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
5. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
6. (slang) The vagina.
7. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
8. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

Example Sentences

insert tab A into slot B

I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.

With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.

I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.

The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves

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!

One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.

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.

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Word Forms

• slots
• slotting
• slotted
• slote

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