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say it: slaht
slot is a noun and verb meaning "a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable". It carries 8 recorded senses.
a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
“he developed a version of slot grammar”
a time assigned on a schedule or agenda
“the TV program has a new time slot”
“an aircraft landing 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”
the trail of an animal (especially a deer)
“he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees”
(computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board
“the PC had three slots for additional memory”
computer
a slot machine that is used for gambling
“they spend hours and hours just playing the slots”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.