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noun
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: tab
noun
A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, especially, in-plural, informal
Topics: gambling, games
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noun
The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Antarctica
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noun
The vagina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
The barrel or tube of a wave.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, surfing
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noun
A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: field hockey or ice hockey
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noun
The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: journalism, media
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noun
A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
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noun
An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
A fort or castle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
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verb
To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To put something where it belongs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To kill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Rhodesia, UK, slang
Qualifier: sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth
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verb
To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Antarctica
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verb
To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Qualifier: Australian rules football
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports
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verb
To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
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verb
To shut with violence; to slam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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noun
a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: slit
Narrower terms: coin slot, mail slot
noun
a slot machine that is used for gambling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: one-armed bandit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: slot machine, coin machine
Narrower terms: fruit machine
noun
(computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: expansion slot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: receptacle
noun
a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: position, spatial relation
noun
the trail of an animal (especially a deer)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: trail
noun
a position in a hierarchy or organization
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: status, position
noun
a time assigned on a schedule or agenda
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: time slot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time interval, interval
verb
assign a time slot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: schedule
History
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”). The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).
Across languages
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
