Slot

Definition: Slot

Slot

Noun

1. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar".

2. A small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail).

3. A time assigned on a schedule or agenda; "the TV program has a new time slot"; "an aircraft landing slot".

4. A position in a hierarchy or organization; "Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks"; "she beat some tough competition for the number one slot".

5. The trail of an animal (especially a deer).

6. (computers) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board.

7. A slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours and hours just playing the slots".

Verb

1. Assign a time slot; "slot a television programs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Chemical Industry

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slot

Opening

Noun: hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel; transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot.

Crosswords: Slot

Danish (castle), Dutch (castle, clasp, conclusion, end, ending, hook, lock, terminate), Frisian (castle, lock), German (slot).

Okay, insert rod support A into slot B. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

I signed that release waiver, so you can just feel free to stick things in my slot! (Charlie's Angels; writing credit: Ivan Goff; Ben Roberts)

You should have slipped it through the mail slot while you had the chance, Earl (Neighbors; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Larry Gelbart)

Shifting like the handle of a slot machine (RHYTHM OF MY HEART; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

So don'tcha put no quarters in the slot (Pour Me; performing artist: Trick Pony)

Et Slot i et slot (1955)

Kongefamilien på Sorgenfri Slot (1941)

A Tonsorial Slot Machine (1918)

The 10:30 Slot (1999)

2Merch&ise Part 2 - Slot (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Secrets of Modern Slot Playing (reference)

• Slot Machine (reference)

• Slot Smarts: Winning Strategies at the Slot Machine (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Coin Slot International (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• In the Slot (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• PNY P-CFUSB-PB Single Slot USB Compact Flash Card Reader (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Freud 60-100 5/16" Slot Cutter Arbor with 1/4" Shank (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Looking through a slot in the cliffs south of Davenport. Huge surf rebounds off the cliffs and builds even larger interference patterns in the incoming surf. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Severe thunderstorm with a clear slot near main updraft core. Typically a tornado, if present, will form in this area. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Mature stage of large tornado. Clear slot in clouds illuminates funnel. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Couple playing slot machine, Raceland, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

People watching slot machine being played, Pilottown, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Slot machine players. Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress.

Girl playing slot machine in decorated barroom. Raceland, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

An old slot machine in an abandoned saloon at Mansfield, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lumberjack and slot machine in saloon. Craigville, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old slot machine in former saloon. Craigville, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Near the door three slot machines, showing through glass the wealth in nickels three bars will bring

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Many factors speak in favor of Skavsta, among them low landing charges, plentiful slot times and an abundance of space. (references)

HCL Infosystems retained its top slot with 12 percent market share in terms of units and 18.6 percent in terms of value. (references)

The completion of the third runway at Arlanda by 2002 will allow the airport to increase its slot capacity (landings and take-offs) by 25 percent. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Cost of a time slot varies considerably, depending on timing, and is usually less costly for Saudis than foreign firms. (references)

Japan

New airports are being built in Nagoya, Kobe and Kita Kyushu among other places, and this expansion should begin to ease some of the slot congestion beginning in 2005. Forecasters expect Japan's fleet of 20-25 corporate jets to increase to more than 100 by that time. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "slot": altitude slot ♦ branch delay slot ♦ coin slot ♦ contention slot ♦ delay slot ♦ expansion slot ♦ indexing slot ♦ justifiable digit time slot ♦ mail slot ♦ moving slot ♦ PCI slot ♦ polarizing slot ♦ processor Direct Slot ♦ put a penny in the slot ♦ slot 1 ♦ slot 2 ♦ slot A ♦ slot antenna ♦ slot flap ♦ slot in ♦ slot into ♦ slot machine ♦ slot meter ♦ slot mortice ♦ slot telephone ♦ slot together ♦ spiral slot ♦ steadying slot ♦ stuffable digit time slot ♦ time slot ♦ time slot interchange ♦ wing slot. Additional references.

Beginning with "slot": slot-and-filler, slot-blot, slot-head, slot-in, slot-it-out, slot-like, slot-machine, slot-machines, slot-meter, slot-mouthed, slot-shaped.

Ending with "slot": role-slot, single-slot, six-slot, three-slot, time-slot.

Containing "slot": penny-in-the-slot machine.

Afrikaans

gleuf. (various references)

Albanian

vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, tear, vent, venthole), vend i caktuar, tragë (print, rut, trace, trail), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, task, task-work, thing, work), pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), ngërthej (interlock), kapanxhë (hatch, hatchway, manhole), interval kohe (distance, headway, lag, span), gjurmë (Dent, dint, drag, footmark, footprint, footstep, groove, impress, impression, indent, indentation, marking, print, print track, scent, sign, smell, spoor, stamp, step, tincture, tinge, trace, track, trail, vestige, vestigium), e çarë (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cranny, crevice, cut, rent, rift, shake, slit), baxhë (dormer, manhole, scuttle, skylight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتحة (aperture, breach, gap, manhole, niche, opening, orifice, overture, porthole, slash, slit, vent), ‏لحم وسد, ‏حدث شقا, ‏إندمج (amalgamate, coalesce, consolidate, incorporate, integrate, merge, mesh), ‏إخدود, ‏أدخل (allow, bill, come in, heel, inject, insert, introduce, let in, press, put in, send in, show in, squeeze, take in, yield), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), ‏شرفة (balcony, gulp, niche, overhang, porch, terrace, tier, traverse, veranda, verandah), ‏درج (calibrate, code, grade, graduate, include, insert, inset, locker, scale, staircase, stairs, step, stud, toddle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

проследявам (nose out, pug, track), дълбей (notch), правя дълбей в, правя жлеб в, правя цепка в, правя разрез в, диря (clue, foil, scent, seek, trace, track, trail, train, vestige, wake), прорез (cutting, groove, notch, port), слагам в цепка, жлеб (fillister, fuller, gouge, groove, mortise, pod, rabbet, race, rebate), намирам подходящо място за, намирам определено място за, цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, cracking, fissure, flaw, leak, rent, rift, shake, slash, slit), цепка (cleft, fissure, rip, slash, slit, split, vent), разрез (cut, elevation, section, slash, slit), пролука (aperture, chink, crack, cranny, flaw, gap, leak, rent). (various references)

Chinese 

槽孔. (various references)

Czech

vhodit (drop in, insert), otvor na mince (coin slot), okénko (counter, serving hatch, sight, window), štìrbina (chink, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, leak, slit), škvíra (cranny, rent). (various references)

Danish

slot (castle), slids (mortice, slot mortice), skakt (adit, chute, collimator shaft, core, cored hole, discharge pipe, gallery, hopper, lifting hole, plumb-line shaft, shaft, tower, tunnel, void, well), udsparing (dimple for a shot pin, groove, notch), udskæring (cutout, excision), pladsholder, perforering (perforation), not (cotter, dimple for a shot pin, feather, groove, key, milled slot, notch, peg, seine fishing net, seine net, spline), loeftehul (lifting hole), kaedekasse (lifting hole). (various references)

Dutch

sleuf (cutting, excavation, mortice, slot mortice, wave), gleuf (cleft, crack, fissure, furrow, gap, groove, milled slot, sulcus), sponning (embedding, encasing, housing, mortice, mounting, rabbet, rebate, slot mortice), groef (ditch, furrow, hole, pit, wrinkle). (various references)

Esperanto

kanelo, foldo, ŝovsulko. (various references)

Faeroese

plógv. (various references)

Farsi 

چفت کردن (Hasp, Latch), چفت در, چاک (Cut, Hack, Incision, Interstice, Rift, Rip, Scotch, Slit, Split, Suture, Tear), کلون در, تخته باریک (Slat), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Spit, Stab, Steek, Stick, Thrust, Transfix), سوراخ جای کلید, انداختن پول درقلک وتلفن . (various references)

Finnish

rako (chink, cleft, crack, slit). (various references)

French

rainure, sillon, fente (slit), créneau, cannelure. (various references)

German

schlitz (fly, jag, placket, rip, slash, slit, vent), slot, rille (flute, furrow, glyph, groove, score). (various references)

Greek 

σχισμή (cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, placket, rift, slit, split). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקום מתאים, לחרץ (jag), חריץ (crack, crevice, ditch, fissure, flute, fluting, groove, jag, notch, rut, score, slit), חרץ (cut, fissure, incision). (various references)

Hungarian

rés (aperture, chink, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, hole, leak, missing link, mortice, mortise, opening, pool, rift, Rive, scupper, slit, split). (various references)

Indonesian

petak (terrace), lobang (aperture, hole), celah (aperture, chink, cleft, crevice, fissure, gap, rift, slit, space), alur (channel, furrow, gully, plot). (various references)

Italian

fessura (burst, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, leak, Rive, slit, split). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

受け口 (protruding lower lip and jaw, receiving window, socket), スローウイルス感染症 (dull person, slogan, slope, slow virus infection, slow-motion, slow-motion video, slow-moving person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うけぐち (protruding lower lip and jaw, receiving window, socket), スロット . (various references)

Korean 

구멍 (BORE, Cavities, Cavity, hole). (various references)

Manx

scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), scoltan (colon), giarrey scoltey ayn. (various references)

Pig Latin

otslay.(various references)

Portuguese

ranhura (cannelure, chase, fillister, flute, furrow, gouge, rabbet, slit), entalhe (cannelure, chase, croze, cutting, dent, fillister, furrow, gab, groove, hack, indentation, indention, jag, jagg, kerf, mortise, nick, snick), abertura (access, aperture, bay, breach, cage, candor, candour, chink, crevice, gap, hack, highroad crossing, hole, jaws, loophole, maw, openness, overture, passage, rent, rift, slit, splay, stoma, vent, window, yawn). (various references)

Romanian

urmã (atom, clew, clue, footmark, footprint, furrow, impress, impression, imprint, indent, jot, Mark, patent office, print, pug, rear, rearward, relic, remnant, rut, scent, seal, shadow, sign, spoor, stamp, step, trace, track, trail, vestige, wake), trapã (hatch, manhole, sink), fantã (kerf, slit), crestãturã (channel, hack, indenture, louver, Nick, notch, score, scotch, slash, snick), crãpãturã (breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, eyehole, fissure, flaw, loophole, Nick, rent, rift, slit, split, yawn). (various references)

Russian 

щель;инф)слот, щель или разрез крыла, щель (areaway, call slot, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, notch, peep, rent, rift, slit, slit trench), шлиц (spline), канавка (chase, groove, gutter), отверстие (aperture, breach, break, ear, gab, gap, hiatus, hole, opening, orifice, vent, ventiduct), желобок (coulisse, flute, groove, rabbet, riffle), борозда (furrow, groove, rut, stria), прорезь (mortise, slash, slit), прорезать канавки, паз (channel, chase, groove, gutter, mortise, notch, recess), долбить (chisel, pick). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzan otvor (slit), prosecati, prorezati (slash, slice, slit), prorez (slash, slit), položaj (billet, incumbency, job, lie, location, office, position, racket, site, situation, standing, station, whereabouts). (various references)

Spanish

slot, vacante (empty, free, opening, unoccupied, vacancy, vacant, void), rasgadura (slit), ranura de expansión, ranura (cut, flume, groove, nick, notch, pod, rabbet, spline), pozo (cesspool, draw well, fountain, gantlet, gauntlet, hole, kike, mine, pit, pool, shaft, sink, well, wells), posición de inserción, muesca para pestillo (dimple for a shot pin, notch), muesca (indent, joggle, mortice, mortise, Nick, notch, score, scotch), intervalo de tiempo (time slot, window), intervalo (distance, gap, interlude, intermission, interval, lapse, lull, range, wait), hendidura (cleavage, fissure, indent, ravine), franja horaria (time slot), espacio (accommodation, break, clearance, cosmos, delay, distance, elbow room, gap, hiatus, Interspace, interval, item, length, period, room, short program, slowness, space, spacing, spaciousness, span, spot, void), chimenea (bawl, chimney, fireplace, fireside, hearth, howl, pipe, smokestack). (various references)

Swedish

springa (burst, chink, course, cranny, crevice, hare, interstice, jump, leg it, opening, pop, race, run, scurry, slit, vent), spår (clue, evidence, hint, impression, metals, scent, scrap, sign, spoor, taint, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, whiff), öppning (aperature, aperture, gap, inlet, interstice, mouth, opening, orifice, passage). (various references)

Thai

เจาะรู, กำหนดในตาราง, กำหนดเวลาในตาราง, ตำแหน่งงาน (billet), หยอดลงในช่อง. (various references)

Turkish

sıra (alignment, arrangement, array, bench, desk, file, form, linage, line, occasion, order, ordinal, place, progression, queue, range, rank, row, sequence, series, settle, spell, succession, tier, train, turn), yoluna koymak (arrange, clean up, regulate, straighten, straighten out, tune), yiv (chamfer, chase, flute, groove, rabbet, riffle, spline, stria), yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, spot, Square, station, Stow), yerine oturtmak (reduce, seat), yer (earth, footing, geo-, Glebe, ground, ground-, locale, locality, location, locus, mother earth, pew, place, position, post, premises, quarter, room, seat, site, situation, situs, space, spot, stand, standing, station, stead, terrain, terraneous, ubiety, where, whereabouts), yarık açmak (gash), yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chasm, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, hiatus, incision, interstice, rent, rift, scissure, shake, slit, split, tear, vent), oturtmak (clap, embed, fit, gear, indwell, Mount, place, reset, seat, set, sit, sit down, site), oluk (chamfer, channel, chase, chute, conduit, flute, gangway, gouge, groove, gully, gully drain, gutter, rabbet, riffle, runnel, spline, throat, trough), geyik izi, delik açmak (bore, dig a hole, drill, hole, honeycomb, make a hole in, Pierce, ream, ream out, run through, vent), delik (aperture, bore, cavity, den, hole, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, prison, stir, vent, ventage, venthole), av izi (spoor). (various references)

Ukrainian

шліц, канавка (rabbet, riffle), отвір для опускання монети, паз (chamfer, groove, joggle, mortice, mortise, notch, rabbet, rebate, socket). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết đi của hươu nai khấc, khía (kerf), đường đi của hươu nai. (various references)

Welsh

agennu (crack, split), agen (cleft, clink, fissure). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slot": slotback, slotbacks, sloth, slothful, slothfully, slothfulness, slothfulnesses, sloths, slots, slotted, slotting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elot, eslet, eslot, hlot, Isolt, salot, sclot, sgot, Slatt, slet, slito, slizt, slo, sloa, Sloch, slod, sloet, sloi, slol, Slonta, sloof, sloor, sloot, slor, slota, slote, slou, slout, slov, sloy, sloz, slurt, slust, slutz, slyt, solat, solit, solut, splot, srot, stol, tlot, zlot, zlote, zolt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lost, lots.

-1 letter: lot, sol, sot.

-2 letters: lo, os, so, to.

+1 letter: altos, blots, bolts, clots, colts, dolts, glost, holts, jolts, lofts, loots, lotas, lotos, lotus, louts, molts, plots, rotls, sloth, slots, smolt, sotol, stole, stool, telos, toils, tolas, toles, tolls, tolus, tools, volts.

+2 letters: allots, almost, atolls, bloats, botels, cloots, closet, cloths, clouts, costal, costly, extols, floats, flotas, flouts, gloats, glosts, glouts, helots, holist, hostel, hostly, hotels, jostle, ketols, lentos, lithos, locust, lotahs, lottes, lottos, lovats, lowest, molest, mostly, motels, moults, oblast, octyls, oldest, osteal, ostler, owlets, pilots, pistol, postal, poults, santol, skatol, sloths, smalto, smolts, softly, solate, solute, sotols, spoilt, sterol, stoled, stolen, stoles, stolid, stolon, stomal, stools, stroll, sublot, talons, telson, thiols, tholes, tholos, toiles, tolans, tolars, tolyls, tonsil, totals, tousle, towels, triols, trolls, volost, voltes, zlotys.