From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slot \Slot\, noun [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.
2. A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slot \Slot\, verb (used with an object) [See {Slot} a bar.] To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slot \Slot\, noun [Cf. Icel. sl??, and E. sleuth.] The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. --Milton.
As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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); "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}]
verb
1: assign a time slot; "slot a television programs" [also: {slotting}, {slotted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
150 Moby Thesaurus words for "slot": 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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