slot

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /slɒt/    美 /slɑt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
  2. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
    — insert tab A into slot B
  3. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
    — I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
  4. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
  5. An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. Northern-England,Scotland
  6. Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”). abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,especially,in-plural
    — I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
  7. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
    — The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves
  8. A fort or castle. obsolete
    — Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay.
  9. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
    — By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.
  10. The vagina. slang
  11. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  12. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
    — The game offers four save slots.
  13. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  14. The barrel or tube of a wave. slang
  15. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
  16. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
  17. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
    — She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.
  18. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
    — The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.
  19. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
动词 v.
  1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
  2. To bar, bolt or lock a door or window. Northern-England,Scotland,obsolete
  3. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
  4. To shut with violence; to slam. UK,dialectal,obsolete,transitive
    — to slot a door
  5. To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
  6. To put something where it belongs.
    — And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
  7. To kill. Rhodesia,UK,slang
    — One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."
  8. To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
    — The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out.
  9. To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this. informal

词形变化

slots plural slots present,singular,third-person slotting participle,present slotted participle,past slotted past slots plural slote alternative slots present,singular,third-person slotting participle,present slotted participle,past slotted past slote alternative

词汇关系

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相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.
词源 2
From Middle English slot, from Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with Dutch slot, German Schloss (“door-bolt”).
The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).
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