slot

• IPA^(key): /slɒt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slutą. 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”)).

slot (plural slots)

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. (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
5. (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

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

   to slot a door

From Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). Compare sleuth.

slot (plural slots)

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
2. A gap in a schedule or sequence.
3. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
4. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
5. (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.

6. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.

   I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.

7. (slang) The vagina.
   • 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.

8. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
   • 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.

• slotwise
• slot-hound

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

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 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.

4. (slang, Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
   • 1978, The Bridge, vol. 3, p. 31:

     One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies.

• slot in

• close
• sluice

• LTOs, OTLs, STOL, lost, lots, tols

From Middle Dutch slot (“a bolt, lock, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *slut- (“to close”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈslʌd̥]

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

1. castle
2. palace
3. manor house

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

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• IPA^(key): /slɔt/
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slot n (plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)

1. lock (something used for fastening)
2. castle
3. end, conclusion

• (castle): kasteel, burcht
• (end): eind, einde

• (castle): slotgracht, slottoren
• (end): tenslotte, ten slotte, slotpleidooi, slotrede

• sleutel

• lost, stol