Slot vs Stot - What's the difference?
slot | stot |
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.
* 2006 , Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man (page 165)
* 2006 , Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters (page 20)
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.
:* 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
(Scotland, Northern England) A bounce or rebound
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 148:
*:Instead of dropping the golden cones safely into his bag he let them dribble out of his hands so that, in the expectancy before the violence of the storm, the tiny stots from one transfigured branch to another could be clearly heard.
(zoology, of quadrupeds) A leap using all four legs at once.
(intransitive, Scotland, and, Northern England) To bounce, rebound or ricochet.
*1996 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Lack of Money’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 285:
*:‘I've plenty of money in my bank – and I have my cheque book here – could one of you cash a cheque for five pounds? – I promise it won't stot .’
(transitive, Scotland, and, Northern England) To make bounce, rebound or ricochet.
(intransitive, zoology, of quadrupeds) To leap using all four legs at once.
As a verb slot
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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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