slotnoun詞源 1/slɒt/

• 1

  A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.

  • insert tab A into slot B
• 2

  A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.

  • I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
  • With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.
• 3

  The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.

  • The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves
  • Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer Hath left his slot beside the way; The little Ermine now is seen White wanderer of the snow; […] And hark! the rosy-breasted bird, The Throstle of sweet song!
• 4

  A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

  • By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.
  • Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.
• 5

  slangThe vulva.

• 6

  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.

• 7

  computingengineeringmathematicsA space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

  • The game offers four save slots.
• 8

  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationIn a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.

slotverb詞源 1/slɒt/

• 1

  To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).

• 2

  To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).

• 3

  To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.

• 4

  To put something where it belongs.

  • And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
• 5

  slangTo kill.

  • One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."
  • Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.
• 6

  To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.

  • The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out.
  • I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.
• 7

  informalball-gamesgameshobbiesTo kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

slotnoun詞源 2/slɒt/

• 1

  A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.

• 2

  A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.

• 3

  An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.

• 4

  obsoleteA fort or castle.

  • Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay.

slotverb詞源 2/slɒt/

• 1

  obsoleteTo bar, bolt or lock a door or window.

• 2

  obsoletedialectalTo shut with violence; to slam.

  • to slot a door

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• slot machine