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Uncommonslot
The correct spelling is slot.
How to pronounce slot
/slɒt/
nounIPA: /slɒt/
Say it like: Slo-t
The correct spelling is slot. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. For example: "to slot a door"
Usage Examples
“to slot a door”
“The game offers four save slots.”
“I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- 2.A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- 3.An implement for baring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- 4.A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- 5.The barrel or tube of a wave.
verb
- 1.To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
- 2.To shut with violence; to slam.
- 3.To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
- 4.To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
- 5.To put something where it belongs.
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