slot

Signification

Noun

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. An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
2. (obsolete) To shut with violence; to slam.

Verb

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 create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
4. To put something where it belongs.
5. (slang) To kill.
6. To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
7. (informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/slɒt/

Étymologie

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