Slot vs Flaw - What's the difference?

slot | flaw |

As verbs the difference between slot and flaw

is that slot is (sluta) while flaw is to add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

As a noun flaw is

(obsolete) a flake, fragment, or shiver or flaw can be a sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

slot

English

(wikipedia slot)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) slot or (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.

A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.

(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.

(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.

Verb

(obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.

(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.

to slot a door

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot , of unknown origin.

Noun

(en noun)

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.

A gap in a schedule or sequence.

(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.

(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.

(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

The game offers four save slots .

(informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.

(slang) The vagina.

* 2006 , Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man (page 165)

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 , Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters (page 20)

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.

Derived terms

* slotwise

Verb

To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)

To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)

To put something where it belongs.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}

Derived terms

* slot in

Etymology 3

From (etyl) esclot, from (etyl) . Compare (sleuth).

Noun

(en noun)

The track of an animal, especially a deer.

:* 1819': “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the '''slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe

Derived terms

* slot-hound

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flaw

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flawe, .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.

(obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.

A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

There is a flaw in that knife.

That vase has a flaw .

* Shakespeare

This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws .

A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.

* South

Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?

A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid.

a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* tragic flaw

Verb

(en verb)

To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

To become imperfect or defective.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

* Milton

Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw .

* Tennyson

Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.

A storm of short duration.

A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.

* Dryden

And deluges of armies from the town / Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw .

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