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noun

1British A vending machine selling small items.
‘The slot machine sells sex toys, erotic lingerie, massage oil and condoms.’
- ‘I remember on a rare trip to the seaside (the beach was out of bounds, full of barbed wire and gun emplacements) gazing at a long-empty slot machine that had once held chocolate bars and now appeared as a rusting icon from outer space.’
- ‘The reason I'm thinking about this, whilst I sit in the pub, drinking my pint - sorry, I'm in a pub - is because I can see a girl standing next to the slot machine, dressed in pink.’
- ‘The only other two in operation were DIY, where the hapless customer is expected to swipe groceries past an electronic eye and then fiddle about feeding credit cards or cash into a slot machine to pay for them.’
- ‘The ordinary idea of a slot machine logically involves the idea of a device in which some mechanism or other is set in operation by the coin, which in some way delivers the appropriate goods.’
- ‘If the government's central concern was the reduction in teenage pregnancies, the sensible thing would be to make the morning-after pill available cheaply - perhaps via slot machines in easily accessible places.’
- ‘A motorway service station may seem an odd place to remember 12 murder victims, but yesterday the bugler's Last Post called out amid the slot machines and coffee bars with haunting beauty.’
- ‘I suppose we ought to shut down every library, then find a way of building slot machines into books so that you have to keep putting 10p pieces in every few minutes in order to keep the pages turning.’
- ‘But let them run around cobbled streets, put old pennies in Victorian slot machines and try on historic costumes, and you'll find a very different reaction.’
- ‘And I finally found out during a visit to Old Penny Memories, a working collection of antique slot machines in Bridlington.’
- ‘The Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Tom Wright, says: ‘Prayer is not a penny in the slot machine, you can't just put in a coin and get out a chocolate bar at the bottom.’
- ‘Will you admit that you've been treating me like some kind of slot machine?’
1. 1.1North American A fruit machine.
  ‘Pachinko is a combination of slot machine and pinball game; players can control only the speed at which small stainless-steel balls are fed into the devices.’
  - ‘It's a very special relationship and I've seen it on both video game players and on slot machine players and the industry will say that gambling problems are purely from within the individual.’
  - ‘As time progressed, computerised versions and all sorts of clever entertainments have been merged into the basic game so that a Pachinko machine is often more like a Fruit Machine or slot machine than a ball game.’
  - ‘Delaware Park plans to incorporate a new player tracking component in its racing and slot machine gaming systems.’
  - ‘I fail to see how risking your hard-earned money on the outcome of a sporting event, the random machinations of a slot machine, or the numerical suicide of a lottery makes life more interesting.’
  - ‘At the conclusion of each level the player is presented with the chance to play a slot machine game for extra men.’
  - ‘As a result, shares of the slot machine and video game manufacturer edged up from $33.48 to $34.63.’
  - ‘I put some money in a slot machine, and I won my first try.’
  - ‘They would, he warned, use bingo as a ‘loss-leader’ and encourage players to try their hand at more addictive slot machine games.’
  - ‘This is not some sort of con game or high tech slot machine.’
  - ‘In my opinion, nobody has ever had a gun held to his head and been forced to go into a casino and put money into a slot machine.’
  - ‘You get what you pay for, Petal, and in the bar scene it is very much a case of putting the money in the slot machine and waiting to see if you win a prize.’
  - ‘Players know that it determines the symbols that land on the pay line on a slot machine and the cards they're dealt on a video poker machine.’
  - ‘As far as the slot machine goes, it really is an easily understood game, simple without being boring, with well laid out pay tables and easy to understand bonuses.’
  - ‘Since the modern slot machine is programmed to select number series at random, no amount of finessing of the handle can change what has been decided.’
  - ‘The basic premise of a slot machine is randomness to the extreme.’
  - ‘I took a look at products from all the major slot machine manufacturers, and will give my impressions on new games over the next several weeks.’
  - ‘I used to put minutes, quarter-hours, half-hours into this game, like ever larger sums into a slot machine.’
  - ‘Collier is not alone in his fondness for the slot machine, an electronic poker game known locally as a ‘pokie’.’
  - ‘This is my retirement money and if I want to put it in a slot machine, it's nobody's business but my own.’

DEFINITIONS 3 1 a long narrow hole that you can fit something into He put a coin in the slot. For example, your odds of winning on a slot machine stay the same. You might hit a “winning streak” which is, technically speaking, a set of random variables outside the norm. But play the machine long enough, and the random variables will regress to the mean (i.e. “return to normal”) and you’ll end up losing! Noun a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter. A place or position, as in a sequence or series: The program received a new time slot on the broadcasting schedule. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A landing slot, takeoff slot, or airport slot is a permission granted by the owner of an airport designated as Level 3 (Coordinated Airport), which allows the grantee to schedule a landing or departure at that airport during a specific time period.

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slot¹

(slŏt)n.

1. A narrow opening; a groove or slit: a slot for coins in a vending machine; a mail slot.

2. A gap between a main and auxiliary airfoil to provide space for airflow and facilitate the smooth passage of air over the wing.

a. An assigned place in a sequence or schedule: a new time slot for a TV program.

b. A position of employment in an organization or hierarchy.

5. Informal A slot machine designed for gambling: lost $100 playing the slots.

a. Football A space or gap between an end and a tackle in an offensive line.

b. Sports An unmarked area in front of the goal between the face-off circles on an ice hockey rink.

tr.v.slot·ted, slot·ting, slots

2. To put into or assign to a slot.

[Middle English, hollow of the breastbone, from Old French esclot.]

slot²

(slŏt)

[Obsolete French esclot, horse's hoofprint, from Old French, perhaps from Old Norse slōdh, track.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

slot

(slɒt) n

1. an elongated aperture or groove, such as one in a vending machine for inserting a coin

2. (Aeronautics) an air passage in an aerofoil to direct air from the lower to the upper surface, esp the gap formed behind a slat

3. (Nautical Terms) a vertical opening between the leech of a foresail and a mast or the luff of another sail through which air spills from one against the other to impart forward motion

vb, slots, slottingorslotted

6. (usually foll by: in or into) to fit or adjust in a slot

7. informal to situate or be situated in a series or scheme

[C13: from Old French esclot the depression of the breastbone, of unknown origin]

slot

(slɒt)

[C16: from Old French esclot horse's hoof-print, probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse sloth track; see sleuth]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

slot¹

(slɒt)
n., v. slot•ted, slot•ting.n.

1. a slit or other narrow opening, esp. one for receiving something, as a coin or a letter.

2. a place or position, as in a sequence or series.

4. Informal.slot machine (def. 1).

5. a gap that is opened along the leading edge of an aircraft wing to improve airflow.

v.t.

7. to make a slot in; provide with a slot or slots.

8. to place or fit into a slot: You've been slotted for four o'clock.

v.i.

[1300–50; Middle English: the hollow of the breastbone < Middle French esclot, of uncertain orig.]

slot²

(slɒt)
n.

the track or trail of a deer or other animal, as shown by the marks of the feet.

[1565–75; < Anglo-French, Middle French esclot the hoofprint of a horse, probably < Old Norse slōth track, trail; compare sleuthhound]

slot

Past participle: slotted
Gerund: slotting

Imperative
slot
slot

Present
I slot
you slot
he/she/it slots
we slot
you slot
they slot

Preterite
I slotted
you slotted
he/she/it slotted
we slotted
you slotted
they slotted

Present Continuous
I am slotting
you are slotting
he/she/it is slotting
we are slotting
you are slotting
they are slotting

Present Perfect
I have slotted
you have slotted
he/she/it has slotted
we have slotted
you have slotted
they have slotted

Past Continuous
I was slotting
you were slotting
he/she/it was slotting
we were slotting
you were slotting
they were slotting

Past Perfect
I had slotted
you had slotted
he/she/it had slotted
we had slotted
you had slotted
they had slotted

Future
I will slot
you will slot
he/she/it will slot
we will slot
you will slot
they will slot

Future Perfect
I will have slotted
you will have slotted
he/she/it will have slotted
we will have slotted
you will have slotted
they will have slotted

Future Continuous
I will be slotting
you will be slotting
he/she/it will be slotting
we will be slotting
you will be slotting
they will be slotting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been slotting
you have been slotting
he/she/it has been slotting
we have been slotting
you have been slotting
they have been slotting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been slotting
you will have been slotting
he/she/it will have been slotting
we will have been slotting
you will have been slotting
they will have been slotting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been slotting
you had been slotting
he/she/it had been slotting
we had been slotting
you had been slotting
they had been slotting

Conditional
I would slot
you would slot
he/she/it would slot
we would slot
you would slot
they would slot

Past Conditional
I would have slotted
you would have slotted
he/she/it would have slotted
we would have slotted
you would have slotted
they would have slotted

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

Noun	1.	slot - a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; 'he developed a version of slot grammar' spatial relation, position - the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; 'the position of the hands on the clock'; 'he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage'
2.	slot - a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); 'he put a quarter in the slot' coin slot - a slot through which coins can be inserted into a slot machine mail slot - a slot (usually in a door) through which mail can be delivered
3.	slot - a time assigned on a schedule or agenda; 'the TV program has a new time slot'; 'an aircraft landing slot' interval, time interval - a definite length of time marked off by two instants
4.	slot - a position in a hierarchy or organization; 'Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks'; 'she beat some tough competition for the number one slot' status, position - the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; 'he had the status of a minor'; 'the novel attained the status of a classic'; 'atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life'
5.	slot - the trail of an animal (especially a deer); 'he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees' trail - a track or mark left by something that has passed; 'there as a trail of blood'; 'a tear left its trail on her cheek'
6.	slot - (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; 'the PC had three slots for additional memory' computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system - a machine for performing calculations automatically receptacle - an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
7.	slot - a slot machine that is used for gambling; 'they spend hours and hours just playing the slots' fruit machine - a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials; certain combinations win money for the player coin machine, slot machine - a machine that is operated by the insertion of a coin in a slot
Verb	1.	slot - assign a time slot; 'slot a television program' schedule - plan for an activity or event; 'I've scheduled a concert next week'

slot

noun

1.opening, hole, groove, vent, slit, aperture, channelHe dropped a coin in the slot and dialled.

2.(Informal)place, time, space, spot, opening, position, window, vacancy, nicheVisitors can book a time slot a week or more in advance.

verb

1.fit, slide, insert, put, placeShe slotted a fresh filter into the machine.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

slot

nounA post of employment:

appointment, berth, billet, job, office, place, position, situation, spot.

فَتْحَةفُتْحَه، شَقمَوْقِع البَرنامجيَضَع في الفُتْحَه

sprækkeklemme indlamellistesendetid

rakoreikäaukko

prorez

동전 구멍

atvēlētais laiksiespiestiespraustsprauga

programový blok

öppning

yuvazamandelikkuşakyerine oturtmak/yerleştirmek

slot

[slɒt]A.N

1. (= hole) (in machine etc) → ranuraf; (= groove) → muescaf
to put a coin in the slot → meter una monedaen laranura

2. (= space) (in timetable, programme etc) → huecom; (= advertising slot) → cuñaf (publicitaria); (= job slot) → vacantef

B.VTto slot in(to) [+ object] → introducirormeter en (fig) [+ activity, speech] → incluir (en)
to slot a part into another part → encajar una pieza en (la ranura de) otra pieza
to slot sth into place → colocar algo en su lugar
we can slot you into the programme → te podemos dar un espacioen elprograma, te podemos incluiren elprograma

C.VI → introducirse
it doesn't slot in with the rest → no encaja con los demás
it slots in here → entra en esta ranura, encajaaquí

D.CPDslot machineN (at funfair) → tragaperrasf inv; (= vending machine) → máquinafexpendedora
slot meterN → contadorm

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

slot

[ˈslɒt]n

(= time available) (in timetable) → créneaum; (in TV, radio schedule) → créneaum, plagef

vt
to slot sth into sth → encastrer qch dans qch, insérer qch dans qch

slot

n(= opening) → Schlitzm; (= groove) → Rillef; (Comput) → Slotm, → Steckplatzm; (for aircraft to land etc: = time slot) → Slotm; (inf: = place) → Plätzchennt (inf); (TV) → (gewohnte) Sendezeit; do we have a slot for this in our range? → können wir das in unser Programmeinbauen?

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

slot

[slɒt]

1.n (in machine) → fessura; (groove) → scanalatura (fig) (in timetable) (Radio, TV) → spazio

2.vt (object) → infilare (fig) (activity, speech) → inserire

slot

(

slot) noun

1. a small narrow opening, especially one to receive coins. I put the correct money in the slot, but the machine didn't start. gleuf فُتْحَه، شَق процеп ranhura zdířka der Schlitz sprække σχισμή, εγκοπήranura ava, pilu شكاف aukko fenteחריץ छिद्र, छेद, झिरी, खांचा utor, otvor automata za ubacivanje kovanica rés lubang kecil untuk memasukkan koin rifa, rauf fessura 送金 가늘고 긴 홈, (특히 기계 등의) 동전 투입구 plyšys sprauga lubang alur gleufsprekk, spalteszczelina, otwór درز، درځ: سورى، سوړه، غار ranhura fantă щель, прорезь štrbina; (úzky) otvor reža za kovance otvor springa, inkast ช่องเปิดที่แคบยาว (สำหรับใส่เหรียญ, จดหมาย) delik, yuva 狹長孔，狹縫，(自動販賣機等的)投幣口 проріз, щілина سکے ڈالنے کے لیے چھوٹا شگاف rãnh, khe 狭槽，狭缝

2. a (usually regular) position (in eg the schedule of television/radio programmes). The early-evening comedy slot. gleuf مَوْقِع البَرنامج подходящо място espaço programový blok die Spalte sendetid ζώνηhueco, cuña (kindel) koht, (teatud) aeg شيار paikka tranche horaireמקום पद्वति mjesto, prostor (za nešto) hely; program acara dagskrártími (fascia oraria) 時間帯 ( TV, 라디오 프로그램 스케줄 중의 보통 정해진) 위치 skirtas laikas (pārraidei) atvēlētais laiks acara plaatsprogrampost, sendingstidokienko درز espaço program определенное место, время programový blok termin termin stund, -timme, -dags เวลาและสถานที่ซึ่งกำหนดในตาราง kuşak, zaman 把...納入序列(或名單)中，安排 (電視或廣播節目) місце в розкладі نشریات کے لائحہ عمل میں کوئی مقرر وقت chỗ, vị trí 把…纳入其中，（电视或广播节目的）位置

verb – past tense, past participle ˈslotted –

(with in or into) to fit (something) into a small space. He slotted the last piece of the puzzle into place; I managed to slot in my tea-break between two jobs. insit, inkry يَضَع في الفُتْحَه слагам в процеп encaixar vsunout einpassen klemme ind χώνω, στριμώχνωinsertar, introducir sobitama در جاي خود قرار دادن asettaa paikalleen emboîter, insérer לְשַבֵּץ जगह बनाना načiniti porez, otvor na čemu beprésel memampatkan finna (e-u) stað inserire はめこむ (~을) 작은 공간에 끼워 맞추다 į(si)sprausti iespiest; iespraust memuatkan inpassenpasse inn wciskać, wsuwać په خپل ځاى كښې كيدل encaixar a încastra, a îmbuca вставить vsunúť vstaviti uglaviti passa (klämma) in หยอดลงในช่อง yerine oturtmak/yerleştirmek 安插 вставляти کسی چیز کو چھوٹی سی جگہ میں رکھنا đút vào khe 安插

slot machine

a machine, especially one containing cigarettes, sweets etc for sale, worked by putting a coin in a slot. muntoutomaat آلة البيْع بواسِطَة إسْقاط النقود في الفُتْحَه монетен автомат vendedor automático automat der Automat automat κερματοδέκτης distribuidor automático, máquina tragaperras müügiautomaat دستگاهي كه با سكه كار مي كند raha-automaatti distributrice מְכוֹנַת מַזָל सिक्का डालने पर काम करने वाली मशीन (prodajni) automat (pénzbedobós) automata mesin penjual otomatis sjálfsali distributore automatico 自動販売機 자동판매기 automatas automāts (kaut kā pārdošanai) mesin lubang alur automaatautomatautomat یو دول ماشین ده چی په پیس کی کار کوی vendedor automático automat торговый автомат automat avtomat automat varuautomat เครื่องขายของอัตโนมัติโดยการหยอดเหรียญ otomatik satış makinası 自動販賣機 автомат مشین میں سکے ڈالنے کا شگاف máy bán hàng tự động 自动贩卖机（香烟、糖等）

slot

→ فَتْحَة otvor sprækkeSchlitzυποδοχήranura rakofente prorezfessura スロット 동전 구멍sleufåpningszczelinafenda, ranhuraщель öppning ช่องที่แคบและยาวyuva khe狭槽

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