slot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A narrow opening, such as one for inserting a coin.

   I put a coin in the slot to start the machine.

2. 2
   noun

   A period of time set aside for something on a schedule.

   The TV program has a new evening time slot.

3. 3
   noun

   A position in a list, group, or organization.

   Her song held the top slot in the charts for weeks.

4. 4
   verb

   To put something into a particular place or time.

   They slotted the meeting into Friday afternoon.

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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