slot

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
• A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
• The barrel or tube of a wave.
• The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
• A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
• A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
• The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
• A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
• In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
• A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
• A slot machine designed for gambling.
• The vagina.
• The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
• A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
• The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.

Verb

• To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
• To shut with violence; to slam.
• 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 put something where it belongs.
• To kill.
• To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
• To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

Origin

• 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")).
• From Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð ("track"). Compare sleuth.