noun Download 🔗Share A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. Examples : "We used wooden slots to keep the barn door from swinging open in the wind. " material building architecture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. Examples : "He secured the gate by sliding the wooden slots into the metal brackets on either side. " part item building architecture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. Examples : "The wooden gate had two slots to secure it, making it difficult to open from the outside. " utensil device building item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings. Examples : "The technician carefully inserted the copper windings into the slots of the electric motor's rotor. " machine part technology technical electric electronics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The barrel or tube of a wave. Examples : "The surfer aimed to ride the slots, maneuvering within the powerful, cylindrical part of the wave. " sport nautical ocean Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To bar, bolt or lock a door or window. Examples : "I always slot the front door at night for extra security. " building architecture property Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To shut with violence; to slam. Examples : "to slot a door" action sound Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it. Examples : "The vending machine has slots for inserting coins and bills. " part technical machine building structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A gap in a schedule or sequence. Examples : "The doctor's office has very few appointment slots available this week. " time gap plan business job Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway. Examples : "Due to heavy fog, several flights lost their slots and were delayed. " vehicle traffic industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen. Examples : "During the air show, the announcer explained that the plane in slots, positioned behind the leader and the two wingmen, was crucial for maintaining the diamond formation. " military position space vehicle Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored. Examples : "The game offers four save slots." computing technology electronics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A slot machine designed for gambling. Examples : "I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots." entertainment game machine bet industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor. Examples : "The dog followed the deer's slots in the mud. " animal nature mark environment biology ecology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse. Examples : "The climbers carefully navigated the ice, avoiding the dangerous slots in the glacier. " geology geography environment nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture) Examples : "She slots the parking ticket into the machine to pay. " machine action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence) Examples : "The teacher will slot each student into a time slot for their presentation next week. " job business organization system work time Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To put something where it belongs. Examples : "She carefully slots the letters into their corresponding mailboxes. " position action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill. Examples : "During the Rhodesian Bush War, soldiers used "slots" to mean they would slots the enemy, meaning they would kill them. " military war history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse. Examples : "Because the snow bridge was weak, the sled dog slotted into the hidden crevasse. " geography geology environment nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading