How to pronounce “slot”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
• A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
• (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
• The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
• (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
• (slang) The vagina.
• (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
• (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
• (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
• (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
• (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
• (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
• (electricity) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
• (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
• (fishing) A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
• [Verb]
• To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
• To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
• To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
• To put something where it belongs.
• (slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
• (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
• (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

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