slot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒt/
ipa: /slɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: slots
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: insert tab A into slot B
antonyms: tab#Noun
glosses: A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
examples: text: I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
text: With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.
glosses: A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
examples: text: I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
examples: text: The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 216:
text: 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!
ref: 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:
text: One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: 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.
ref: 2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212:
glosses: The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111:
text: Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.
ref: 1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161:
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
glosses: The vagina.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
examples: text: The game offers four save slots.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The barrel or tube of a wave.
qualifier: field hockey or ice hockey
glosses: A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: 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
T-slot