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slot

/slot/US // slɒt //UK // (slɒt) //

槽,插槽,档期,槽位

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
    • : a place or position, as in a sequence or series: The program received a new time slot on the broadcasting schedule.
    • : Linguistics. a position having a specific grammatical function within a construction into which any one of a set of morphemes or morpheme sequences can be fit.Compare filler.
    • : an assignment or job opening; position: I applied for the slot in management training.
    • : Journalism. the interior opening in a copy desk, occupied by the chief copy editor.the job or position of chief copy editor: He had the slot at the Gazette for 20 years.Compare rim.
    • : an allocated, scheduled time and place for an aircraft to take off or land, as authorized by an airport or air-traffic authority: 40 more slots for the new airline at U.S. airports.
    • : Informal. slot machine.
    • : Aeronautics. See under slat.
    • : Ornithology. a narrow notch or other similar opening between the tips of the primaries of certain birds, which during flight helps to maintain a smooth flow of air over the wings.
    • : Ice Hockey. an unmarked area near the front of an opponent's goal that affords a vantage for an attacking player.
    • : Computers. expansion slot.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    slot·ted, slot·ting.

    • : to provide with a slot or slots; make a slot in.
    • : to place or fit into a slot: We've slotted his appointment for four o'clock.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    slot·ted, slot·ting.

    • : to fit or be placed in a slot.

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Examples

  • What is affecting our predictions some is the addition of more wild-card slots.

  • That’s why SEOs push so hard to dominate that particular slot in the organic SERPs.

  • Citizens have to book a time slot online in order to get a test.

  • When the pandemic forced the county’s 19 libraries to close during the state’s primary, librarians and election officials allowed voters to return ballots through the outdoor slots where people return books.

  • By the time Mayfield returned, his starting slot had been handed to someone else, and his scholarship was in question — with future superstar Patrick Mahomes waiting in the wings.

  • He said Moran had expected to be muffled by state observers when he did a slot on their show.

  • He was, though, keen on securing the bicycles a parking slot in the sun.

  • Jacob: The last time I was in Atlantic City, I sat at the Sex and the City slot machine and I ordered cosmopolitans.

  • The German government paid $16 billion to make sure there would be a slot for every child.

  • And that enabled me to slot in the shooting of the first two episodes [of The Divide] in that.

  • Willis even went so far as to slot all of his Diapason pipes, and Cavaill-Coll sometimes adopted a similar practice.

  • A piece of strong iron wire, which lay among the other litter, was inserted in a narrow slot, apparently a crack in the stone.

  • A number of slots are cut across one side of the can, and the lower edge of each slot slightly turned out to form a cutting edge.

  • Place enough strips of rubber or fit two coil springs, B, to raise the sharp edge out of the slot.

  • Cut a slot in a board or in the workbench large enough to receive the stop A flat.