slot

English Online Dictionary. What means slot‎? What does slot mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /slɒt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /slɑt/
• 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)

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.

   Antonym: tab

3. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.

   Hyponym: timeslot

4. (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine, a game of chance played for money using a coin slot.

5. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
6. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
7. (slang) The vagina.
8. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
9. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

10. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
11. (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
12. (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
13. (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
14. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
15. (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
16. (fishing) A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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 create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
4. To put something where it belongs.
5. (slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
6. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
7. (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)

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 barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. (obsolete) A fort or castle.

Translations

Verb

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, 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^(key): [ˈslʌd̥]

Noun

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

1. castle, palace, manor house

Declension

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

• IPA^(key): /slɔt/
• Hyphenation: slot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

slot n (plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)

1. lock (something used for fastening)
2. castle

   Synonyms: kasteel, burcht

3. end, conclusion, final

   Synonym: eind

Derived terms

Related terms

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^(key): /slɔt̚/
• Hyphenation: slot

Etymology 1

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

Noun

slot

1. 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

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