Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SLOT
SLOT
Definitions of SLOT
- A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
- The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
- To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
- To put something where it belongs.
- (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
- (obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.
- (gambling, informal, especiallyin plural) Clipping of slot machine, a game of chance played for money using a coin slot.
- (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- (slang) The vagina.
- (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
- (hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
- (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
- (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
- To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining#Noun.
- (slang, Britain, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
- (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
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Examples of Using SLOT in a Sentence
- It alternated in its time slot with several other shows, but was the only one of them to last beyond its first season.
- A harmonica reed is a flat, elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway.
- Produced by Richmond Film & Television for Central, it screened on the ITV network in its regular weekday afternoon children's strand, CITV, typically in a 4:45 pm slot (days varied over the course of the run).
- A slot machine, fruit machine (British English), poker machine or pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers.
- Throughput is usually measured in bits per second (bit/s, sometimes abbreviated bps), and sometimes in packets per second (p/s or pps) or data packets per time slot.
- Drop and insert is practiced, for example, in time-division multiplexing (TDM) when a time slot or frequency band is replaced from another source.
- A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and a slot at the rear end called a nock for engaging the bowstring.
- Pachinko fills a niche in Japanese gambling comparable to that of the slot machine in the West as a form of low-stakes, low-strategy gambling.
- Foxwoods Resort Casino is one of the largest casinos in the world in terms of square footage, casino floor size, and number of slot machines, and it was one of the most economically successful in the United States until 2007, but it became deeply in debt by 2012 due to its expansion and changing conditions.
- In Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, the Vermes had the rank of class, occupying the 6th (and last) slot of his animal systematics.
- It proved a great success and attained cult status, and when in October 1966 it was moved from the slot just before the evening news to an earlier children's viewing time, adult viewers complained to the BBC.
- In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot (also referred to as a bus slot) on a computer's motherboard (see also backplane) to add functionality to a computer system.
- The connector has a twist to lock design with two lugs in the female portion of the connector engaging a slot in the shell of the male portion.
- In some countries, some types of arcades are also legally permitted to provide gambling machines such as slot machines or pachinko machines.
- In the wake of his NBC morning show being cancelled in October 1980 after 18 weeks on the air, Earlier that year in May, after significant acrimony, NBC and Carson had reached an agreement on a new contract, which—among other concessions to Carson—granted the powerful and influential host the control over the time slot immediately following The Tonight Show.
- After Letterman's final Late Show, instead of airing reruns of the show or having guest host episodes of Late Show, CBS opted to air reruns of scripted dramas in the 11:35 pm time slot over the summer with the branding CBS Summer Showcase.
- In JTIDS TDMA, the slot frequencies and/or slot assignments for each channel do not remain fixed from frame to frame but are varied in a pseudo-random manner.
- The casino included a three-story gaming and entertainment facility of approximately 200,000 square feet, featuring over 1,700 slot machines, 40 live table games, multiple restaurants, bars and lounges and an enclosed below-grade parking structure with approximately 1,800 spaces.
- As they depart, Franklin believes he hears the slot machine calling his name in a monstrous-sounding voice.
- From 1677 to 1686, the "Slot Zeist" was built on or near the ruins of "Kasteel Zeist", the original castle (donjon) of Rodgar van Zeist.
- Hobbs is also home to Zia Park, a racetrack, hotel and casino with over 750 slot machines and table games.
- Legislation enacted in 2005 known as "Act 71" permitted up to 60,000 slot machines to be located in casinos throughout the state in an effort to offset high property taxes.
- However, because gambling was legal in Maryland and the Maryland state line ends at the low-water mark of Virginia's Potomac River shore, from 1949 to 1958, Colonial Beach offered slot machines in pier casinos extending into Maryland waters.
- The brand grew to encompass a broad range of toys, including larger scale die-cast models, plastic model kits, slot car racing, and action figures.
- Since its inception, Doctors has consistently won the share of viewers in its daytime time slot, and as of 2023, it averages at 1.
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