Meaning

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

    insert tab A into slot B

    Schlitz, Nut

    щельščelʹ, отве́рстиеotvérstije, слотslot

    щі́линаščílyna, шпари́наšparýna

  2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.

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

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

    a time assigned on a schedule or agenda

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

    the trail of an animal (especially a deer)

  4. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

  5. (slang)The vulva.

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

    Startfenster

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

    The game offers four save slots.

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

  9. (slang)The barrel or tube of a wave.

  10. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.

  11. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.

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

Examples

33 sentences
  1. Shove it in the slot.

    ruЗасунь это в разъём.

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  2. Tom took an envelope out of his pocket and put it into the mail slot.

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  3. The machine features some ventilation slots.

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  4. Tom is addicted to slot machines.

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  5. When is the next free slot?

    deWann ist der nächste freie Termin?

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
narrow depression, perforation, or aperture:
Русский
By meaning 2
narrow depression, perforation, or aperture:
wooden bar for fastening door:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
narrow depression, perforation, or aperture:
allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival:
wooden bar for fastening door:

Origin

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

From Middle English slot, from Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with Dutch slot, German Schloss (“door-bolt”).

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Forms

plural: slots
Singularslot
Pluralslots

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a slot machine that is used for gambling:one-armed bandit
  • (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board:expansion slot
  • a time assigned on a schedule or agenda:time slot

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

23 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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