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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /slɒt/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-slot.ogg



Etymology 1

From Middle Low German #Low German|slot or Middle (and modern) Dutch #Dutch|slot, from West Germanic. Cognate with German Schloss ‘door-bolt’.

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. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.


Translations

Verb

{{en-verb|slots|slotting|slotted}}

  1. To bolt or lock a door or window.


Etymology 2

From Old French esclot, of unknown origin.

Noun

  1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
  2. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  3. In a flying display, the forth position; after the leader and two wingmen.


Translations

Etymology 3

From Old French esclot, from Old Norse slóð ‘track’. Compare sleuth.

Noun

  1. The track of an animal, especially a deer.
  2. :* 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


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Danish

Noun

slot

  1. castle
  2. palace
  3. manor house


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Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

:*An audio transcript can be found at Nl-slot.ogg :*IPA: /slɔt/

Noun

het {{nl-noun|g=n|sloten|slotje}}

  1. lock
  2. castle
  3. conclusion


See also


Category:Dutch nouns

es:slot fr:slot hr:slot io:slot id:slot it:slot hu:slot nl:slot pl:slot ru:slot sv:slot ta:slot vi:slot tr:slot zh:slot

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slot \Slot\, n. [LG. & D. slot a lock, from a verb meaning to
close., to shut, D. sluiten; akin to G. schliessen, OHG.
sliozan, OFries. sl?ta, and probably to L. claudere. Cf.
Close, Sluice.]
1. A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
[1913 Webster]

2. A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]

3. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one
for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slot \Slot\, v. t. [See Slot a bar.]
To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slot \Slot\, n. [Cf. Icel. sl??, and E. sleuth.]
The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. --Sir
W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet slot
n 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);
"he put a quarter in the slot"
3: a time assigned on a schedule or agenda; "the TV program has
a new time slot"; "an aircraft landing slot" [syn: {time
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); "he followed the
deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees"
6: (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a
plug-in circuit board; "the PC had three slots for
additional memory" [syn: expansion slot]
7: a slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours
and hours just playing the slots" [syn: one-armed bandit]
v : assign a time slot; "slot a television programs"
[also: slotting, slotted]
Moby Dictionary
IC analysis , abysm , abyss , aperture , appositive , arroyo , assign ,
assignment , attribute , attributive , box canyon , breach , break ,
broaching , canyon , cavity , channel , chap , chasm , check , chimney ,
chink , clearing , cleave , cleft , cleuch , clough , col , complement ,
construction modifier , coulee , couloir , crack , cranny , crevasse ,
crevice , cut , cut apart , cutting , cwm , deep structure , defile ,
dell , depression , dike , direct object , disclosure , ditch , donga ,
draw , excavation , fault , fenestra , filler , fissure , fistula , fit ,
flaw , flume , fontanel , foramen , form-function unit , fracture ,
function , furrow , gap , gape , gash , gat , gorge , groove , gulch , gulf ,
gully , hiatus , hole , hollow , hollow out ,
immediate constituent analysis , incise , incision , indirect object ,
inlet , interval , job , joint , kloof , lacuna , laying open , leak ,
levels , moat , modifier , niche , notch , nullah , object , open ,
opening , opening up , orifice , outlet , pass , passage , passageway ,
phrase structure , place , pore , position , predicate , qualifier ,
ranks , ravine , rent , rift , rime , rive , rupture , schedule , scissure ,
seam , shallow structure , slit , slot and filler , space , split , spot ,
stoma , strata , structure , subject , sulcus , surface structure ,
syntactic analysis , syntactic structure , syntactics , syntax ,
tagmeme , throwing open , trench , uncorking , underlying structure ,
unstopping , vacancy , valley , void , wadi , word arrangement ,
word order , yawn


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