slot

Fetched 2026-11-04 (live).

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Noun

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
   • insert tab A into slot B
2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
   • I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
   • With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.
3. Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
   • I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
4. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
5. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
6. The vulva.
7. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
8. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
   • The game offers four save slots.
9. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
10. The barrel or tube of a wave.
11. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
12. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
13. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
14. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
15. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
16. A place in a character's inventory where items can be held.
    • The Virtus robe top is a good item in the chest slot for magic attack.
    • One unfortunate thing about the halberd is that it takes up three whole inventory slots

Verb

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. To kill.
6. To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
7. To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

Noun

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. An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. A fort or castle.

Verb

1. To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
2. To shut with violence; to slam.
   • to slot a door

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