Slot vs Slope - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.
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.
(informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
(slang) The vagina.
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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.
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The track of an animal, especially a deer.
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An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
(vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
(label) To tend steadily upward or downward.
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, title= (label) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
To try to move surreptitiously.
(label) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
(obsolete) Sloping.
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In obsolete terms the difference between slot and slope
is that slot is to bolt or lock a door or window while slope is slopingly.As an adjective slope is
sloping.As an adverb slope is
slopingly.slot
English
(wikipedia slot)Etymology 1
From (etyl) slot or (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
- to slot a door
Etymology 2
From Old French esclot , of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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
* slotwiseVerb
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Derived terms
* slot inEtymology 3
From (etyl) esclot, from (etyl) . Compare (sleuth).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* slot-houndSee also
* close * sluiceAnagrams
* * * ----slope
English
Noun
(en noun)- I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
- The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
- The slope of this line is 0.5
- The slope of a parabola increases linearly with ''x''.
- The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
Synonyms
* (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward) bank, embankment, gradient, hill, incline * (degree to which a surface tends upward or downward) gradient * (mathematics) first derivative, gradient * Chinaman, ChinkVerb
(slop)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.}}
Derived terms
* ski slope * slippery slope * slopingAdjective
(en adjective)- A bank not steep, but gently slope .
- Down the slope hills.