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slots

noun

Meaning

  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 baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
  4. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
  5. The barrel or tube of a wave.
  6. To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
  7. To shut with violence; to slam.
  8. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
  9. A gap in a schedule or sequence.
  10. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  11. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  12. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
  13. A slot machine designed for gambling.
  14. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
  15. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
  16. To put something where it belongs.
  17. (Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
  18. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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