slot

Noun

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. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, especially, in-plural, informal) 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. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
6. (slang) The vagina.
7. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
8. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
9. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
10. (slang) The barrel or tube of a wave.
11. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
12. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
13. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
14. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
15. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.

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. (British, Rhodesia, 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.

Verb

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

Opposite of

tab#Noun

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slɒt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: slot

Cognate with German: Schloss

Cognate with Dutch: slot

Cognate with Dutch: sluiten

In summary

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.

Synonyms

groove

slit

crack

hole

🕳️

gap

rift

fissure

opening

crevice

chamfer

cranny

fluting

rifling

rent

aperture

split

time slot

chink

track

socket

expansion slot

cavity

furrow

crevasse

spot

tear

cleft

fracture

train path

spoor

flute

🪈

rut

place

breach

position

seat

💺

niche

mouth

nick

lacuna

channel

bolt

mortise

notch

interstice

one-armed bandit

cut

cup

cave

case

Translations

Schlitz

sleuf

gleuf

ranura

fessura

σχισμή

groef

rainure

cannelure

🪈

fente

ranhura

fenda

Spalt

hendidura

sponning

Sentences

Replacement programs like notably , " Todo Balita" were on this slot .