slot
- Noun. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- Noun. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- Noun. (context, electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- Noun. (slang, surfing) surfing term for the barrel or tube of a wave.
- Verb. (obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
- Verb. To put something where it belongs.
- Noun. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- Noun. A gap in a schedule or sequence.
- Noun. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- Noun. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- Noun. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- Noun. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
- Noun. (slang) The vagina.
- Verb. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
- Verb. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
- Noun. The track of an animal, especially a deer.
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