slot – English noun declension

English noun forms of slot

Noun: slot
Singularslot
Pluralslots

Sample Sentences

  • insert tab A into slot B
  • I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
  • With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.
  • I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.
  • The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves [1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 216:]
  • Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer
  • Hath left his slot beside the way;
  • The little Ermine now is seen
  • White wanderer of the snow; […]
  • And hark! the rosy-breasted bird,
  • The Throstle of sweet song! [1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:]
  • One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. [1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:]
  • But by then Niënor had passed away like a wraith; and neither sight nor slot of her could they find, though they hunted far northward and searched for many days. [2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212:]
  • 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. [1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111:]
  • Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove. [1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161:]
  • The game offers four save slots.
  • 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. [2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165:]
  • Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel. [2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20:]
  • According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions. [2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:]
  • 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. [1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111:]

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'slot'.

Verbs referencing "slot"

German Nouns Schlüssel, German Nouns Schloss, German Nouns Schluss, Finnish Nouns luta, Finnish Nouns slotti.