Slot

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)  A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
 * 4)  surfing term for the barrel or tube of a wave.

Verb

 * 1)  To bolt or lock a door or window.
 * 2) To put something where it belongs.

Noun

 * 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)  The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
 * 4)  In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
 * 5)  A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
 * The game offers four save slots.
 * 1)  A slot machine designed for gambling.
 * 2)  The vagina.
 * 3) * 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.
 * 1) * 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

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)

Noun

 * 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

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From slot: or  slot:, from West Germanic. Cognate with Schloss:.

Etymology 2
From Old French esclot, of unknown origin.

Etymology 3
From esclot:, from  slóð:. Compare sleuth:.

Noun

 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Russian: засов, запор, задвижка, щеколда


 * Danish: ,


 * Italian:

Noun

 * Danish: sprække, revne, rille, kærv
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Italian: ,


 * Portuguese:, ranhura,
 * Russian: щель, отверстие, слот
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: màquina escurabutxaques


 * Dutch:

Noun

 * Danish:


 * Italian:, , (pl.)

Anagrams

 * lost
 * lots
 * STOL

Noun

 * 1) castle
 * 2) palace
 * 3) manor house

Noun

 * 1) lock
 * de deur op slot doen - to lock up the door
 * 1) castle
 * 2) conclusion

Etymology
slot from sluiten (to close) sluiten familiar with Latin claudere (sluiten) and Russian kljuc (key)

Derived terms

 * slotgracht

Anagrams

 * lost, stol