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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



... is an eating-place. There is no music except at five cents in the slot, and its tables for four are perpetually set each with a dish of sliced radishes, a bouquet of celery, and a mound of bread, half the stack rye. Its menus are well thumbed and badly mimeographed. Who enters Ceiner's is prepared to dine from barley soup to apple ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... of his horse, one sees that he is a chief in every respect and in life's great drama would naturally occupy the middle of the stage. It was at this moment that Hudson slipped down the river from Albany past Fort Lee, and, dropping a nickel in the slot at 125th Street, weighed his anchor at that place. As soon as he had landed and discovered the city, he was approached by the chief, who said, "We gates. I am one of the committee to show you our little town. I suppose you have a power of attorney, ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye
... cloth is held in a vertical position in the machine, and the part to be sewed is pressed against the side of the shuttle-race by a presser plate hinged on its upper edge, and capable of exerting any required pressure on the cloth, according as the adjusting screw that regulates it is turned. A slot, or perforation through the plate, also extended through the side of the shuttle-race near the bottom, admits the passage of the needle; and when this is pushed in the shuttle can still pass freely over it. The shuttle is pushed one ...
— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.
... sweep over those eucalyptus trees on the right, throw it up to the Berkeley hills, which now are turning green, I suppose, throw it up the long stretch of Market Street till it reaches Twin Peaks, and let it flow down over "south of the slot" that was, and up over Nob Hill, even to the sacred brownstone ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... an electric lamp. Turn it off by opening the knife switch. Cover the blade of the knife switch with a fold of paper and close it. Will the lamp glow? Try a fold of dry cloth; a fold of the same cloth wet. Connect the blade to the slot with a piece of iron; with a piece of glass; with porcelain; with rubber; with dry wood; with wood that is soaking wet; with a coin. Which of these are good conductors of electricity? Which could be ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne


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