English

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 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.

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, Britain, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.

   to slot a door

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot, of unknown origin.

Noun

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.
7. (slang) The ****.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• slotwise

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 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.

Derived terms

• slot in

Etymology 3

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

Noun

slot ‎(plural slots)

1. The track of an animal, especially a deer.

   • 1819: “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Derived terms

• slot-hound

Translations

See also

• close
• sluice

Anagrams

• lost
• lots
• STOL

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈslʌd]

Noun

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

1. castle
2. palace
3. manor house

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Etymology

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

Noun

slot n ‎(plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)

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

Synonyms

• kasteel, burcht (2)
• eind, einde (3)

Derived terms

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

See also

• sleutel

Anagrams

• lost, stol