slot, n. [LG. & D. slot a lock, from a verb meaning to close., to shut, D. sluiten; akin to G. schliessen, OHG. sliozan, OFries. slta, and probably to L. claudere. Cf. Close, Sluice.].

A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat. [1913 Webster]
A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [1913 Webster]
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it. [1913 Webster]

slot, v. t. [See Slot a bar.].

To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [1913 Webster]

slot, n. [Cf. Icel. sl, and E. sleuth.].

The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. Milton. [1913 Webster]

"As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

slot, n. & v.
--n.
1 a slit or other aperture in a machine etc. for something (esp. a coin) to be inserted.
2 a slit, groove, channel, or long aperture into which something fits or in which something works.
3 an allotted place in an arrangement or scheme, esp. in a broadcasting schedule.
--v. (slotted, slotting)
1 tr. & intr. place or be placed into or as if into a slot.
2 tr. provide with a slot or slots.

Idiom

slot-machine a machine worked by the insertion of a coin, esp.:
1 one for automatic retail of small articles.
2 one allowing a spell of play at a pin-table etc.
3 US = fruit machine.

slot, n.
1 the track of a deer etc. esp. as shown by footprints.
2 a deer's foot.

Etymology

OF esclot hoof-print of a horse, prob. f. ON sl{oacute}th trail: cf. SLEUTH

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THESAURUS

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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ROGET THESAURUS

slot

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

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