# slot
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /slɒt/
* (US) IPA: /slɑt/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒt

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

slot (plural slots)
* A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
    Antonym: tab
    insert tab A into slot B
* A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
    Hyponym: timeslot
    I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
    With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.
* (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine, a game of chance played for money using a coin slot.
    I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
* The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
** 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 216:The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves
** 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC: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!
** 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
** 2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212: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.
* (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
** 1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111:By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.
** 1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161:Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.
* (slang) The vagina.
* (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
* (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
    The game offers four save slots.
* (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
* (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
* (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
* (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
* (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
** 2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time‎:According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.
** 2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165:She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.
** 2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20:Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.
* (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
** 1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111:The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.
* (fishing) A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.

##### Derived terms

* bean slot
* coin-in-the-slot
* coin-slot
* coin slot
* credit card slot
* death slot
* delay slot
* expansion slot
* God slot
* graveyard slot
* nickel-in-the-slot
* penny-in-the-slot machine
* penny slot
* save slot
* slot canyon
* slot-car
* slot car
* slot-hound
* slot jockey
* slot-loading disc drive
* slot machine
* slot pair
* slot racing
* slot time
* slotwise
* time slot
* time-slot

##### Translations
#### Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)
* To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
* To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
* To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
* To put something where it belongs.
** 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
* (slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
** 1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31:One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."
** 2012, Davy Thompson, Uniforms and Boats, page 59:Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.
** 2013, Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero: The 20th Anniversary Edition, page 184:They fired into the air on automatic and I thought, here we go, all I need is for one of these rounds to come down and slot me through the head.
* (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
** 1967 June, “Australians' Autumn Journeys Have Perilous Moments”, in Antarctic‎, volume 4, number 10, New Zealand Antarctic Society, pages 503–504:The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out.
** 2012, Hazel Edwards, Antarctica's Frozen Chosen:I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.
* (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

##### Derived terms

* mail slot
* slot in
* slotter
* slotting machine

##### Translations
#### See also

* close
* sluice

### Etymology 2

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”)).

#### Alternative forms

* slote (dialectal)

#### Noun

slot (plural slots)
* A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
* A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
* (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
* (obsolete) A fort or castle.
** 1578, Barnabe Rich, Allarme to England:Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay.

##### Translations
#### Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)
* (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
* (obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.
    to slot a door

### Anagrams

* LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lost, lots, tols

## Danish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German slot (“bolt, lock, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”); cognate with Dutch slot (“lock, castle”) and German Schloss (“lock, castle”), and comparable to Swedish slott (“castle, palace; manor, château”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈslʌd̥]

### Noun

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)
* castle, palace, manor house

#### Derived terms

* sandslot

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch slot, from Old Dutch *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with German Schloss and Schluss.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /slɔt/
* Hyphenation: slot
* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Noun

slot n (plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)
* lock (something used for fastening)
* castle
    Synonyms: kasteel, burcht
* end, conclusion, final
    Synonym: eind

#### Derived terms

* fietsslot
* hangslot
* kettingslot
* kinderslot
* op slot
* slotenmaker
* jachtslot
* lustslot
* slotgracht
* slottoren
* per slot van rekening
* slotpleidooi
* slotrede
* slotrit
* slotsom
* tenslotte

#### Related terms

* sleutel
* sluiten

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: slot
* → Indonesian: slot
* → Papiamentu: slòt, slot
* → Sranan Tongo: sroto, slotto
** → Aukan: sooto
** → Saramaccan: söoto

### Anagrams

* lost, stol

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* selot (especially for word of etymology 1)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slɔt̚/
* Hyphenation: slot

### Etymology 1

From Dutch slot, from Middle Dutch slot, from Old Dutch *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą.

#### Noun

slot
* slot; lock (an implement for barring, bolting or locking)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

slot
* slot (a narrow depression, perforation, or aperture)
* slot (a period of time or position within a schedule or sequence)
* (computing) slot (a space in memory or on disk)
* (gambling) Clipping of mesin slot (“slot, slot machine”)