SLOT


Meaning of SLOT in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a slot machine (= for putting coins in in order to try and win more money )

The casino has 500 slot machines.

expansion slot

mail slot

slot machine

slotted spoon

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

time

The really interesting question is what will take its place in this vital prime time slot .

Have you secretly been lusting after their time slot ?

If this is a family show, give it a family time slot .

The programs have appeared periodically, in no set time slot .

Titles, stars, time slots , producers and who knows what else will change by the time September rolls around.

Press downplayed the series' time slot , saying that other series have not done well when put between two highly-rated shows.

Its weekly feature show, Inside Stuff, is a dunk-fest programmed into a youth-oriented time slot on Saturday morning.

Time Division Multiple Access converts conversations into digital signals and assigns each one specific time slots .

■ VERB

fill

But you need to fill all four slots before the Ram upgrade works. 5..

Then the station you left hires some one to fill your vacant slot .

As a result, there are usually a good many people to choose from when filling a senior management slot .

fit

Even its tail is protected from attack, fitting neatly into a slot in its rump armour.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a parking slot

I dropped a quarter in the slot and dialed the number.

Ron's show has been moved from its 9 p.m. slot on WKDH.

The disk goes into this slot here.

The message was placed in every employee's mail slot .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

About 180 of them competed for slots in five school bands this year.

Gaming areas were half-empty, but gamblers made a beeline for the slots and tables at halftime.

He found just the right person for his newly created slot of research associate.

It is very important to have the greatest possible support around the expansion slot area.

Next wind some tape through the slots and around the core to provide a base for the pickup windings.

Please try again later when there is a free user slot available.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

in

The Jaguar slotted in behind the green Renault.

I slotted in well, but all that vending blunted my edges and did my head in.

Stewart slotted in well in his first full game and Liverpool should have won by a much bigger margin.

All of which slots in with what you've just been saying.

Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back, although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card.

But Severin slid in to block just as the Aussie was about to slot in from close range.

The newcomers slotted in as though they had been part of the set-up for a while.

■ NOUN

place

Get the groundwork right and, in theory, everything else should slot into place .

One last idea was slotted into place in this 11 September broadcast.

Then, he felt the world shift on its axis, and knew that a new reality had slotted into its place .

The final pieces of the puzzle had now been slotted into place .

Katie slotted a video into place and pressed the button.

Try 2003 for the first wave of legislation and 2006 for the final pieces to slot into place .

Some of these words may sound foreign, but will soon slot into place .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Brownie albums were provided, with spaces ready prepared for slotting in a sequence of the snapshots.

Children are slotted at national norms, above those norms, or else beneath them.

He took one at random, went into the master bedroom and slotted it into the video.

The final pieces of the puzzle had now been slotted into place.

Then, he felt the world shift on its axis, and knew that a new reality had slotted into its place.

These ready-to-use units can be slotted in wherever and whenever they fit.

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