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Slot   /slɑt/   Listen
Slot

noun
1.
A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
2.
A small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail).
3.
A time assigned on a schedule or agenda.  Synonym: time slot.  "An aircraft landing slot"
4.
A position in a hierarchy or organization.  "She beat some tough competition for the number one slot"
5.
The trail of an animal (especially a deer).
6.
(computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board.  Synonym: expansion slot.
7.
A slot machine that is used for gambling.  Synonym: one-armed bandit.
verb
1.
Assign a time slot.



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"Slot" Quotes from Famous Books



... display. During the flood season the falls are obliterated and skillful boatmen pass over them in safety; while the Dalles, some six or eight miles below, may be passed during low water but are utterly impassable in flood time. At the Dalles the vast river is jammed together into a long, narrow slot of unknown depth cut sheer down in ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir
... the manufacture of a movable boot heel in two parts, to be adjusted in different positions by means of a single central projection taking into a single slot hole or countersunk part, and secured in position by means of a central screw or pin, whether such projection and hole or countersunk part be square or many sided, and no matter what the shape of these sides, so that the shape of the projection and that of the hole which is ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... to get weighed," said Roger, "because I know I am becoming a shadow studying so hard. I asked Miss Estelle where to go and told her I didn't think the nickel-in-the-slot machines were very ...
— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown
... call came from an automatic pay station in a drug store in town. I have the address. It was one of those telephones where you put your money for the call in a slot." ...
— Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone • Victor Appleton
... and his two boys had been looking at the photographs with much interest. "It is a Slot [a palace], and there is good taste throughout. And do you live ...
— A Danish Parsonage • John Fulford Vicary


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