## Meanings
1. A narrow opening, such as one for inserting a coin.
2. A period of time set aside for something on a schedule.
3. A position in a list, group, or organization.
4. To put something into a particular place or time.

## Examples
- I put a coin in the slot to start the machine.
- The TV program has a new evening time slot.
- Her song held the top slot in the charts for weeks.
- They slotted the meeting into Friday afternoon.

## Derived Forms
- coin-in-the-slot
- coin-slot
- deslot
- multislot
- nickel-in-the-slot
- reslot
- slot-car
- slot-hound
- slotback
- slotless
- slotlike
- slottable

## Related Forms
- close
- sluice

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: slot
- Root: *slot
- Root: *slutą
- Root: sluten

## Etymology
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”)).

## AI Etymology
Slot is 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”)). Important forms in the word's history include Middle English slot, gml slot, Middle Dutch slot, Proto-West Germanic *slot, Proto-Germanic *slutą, Middle Dutch sluten. In current use it includes senses such as A narrow opening, such as one for inserting a coin and A period of time set aside for something on a schedule.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction
- Time

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