Slot

(noun.) a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); 'he put a quarter in the slot'.

(noun.) a slot machine that is used for gambling; 'they spend hours and hours just playing the slots'.

(noun.) (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; 'the PC had three slots for additional memory'.

(noun.) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; 'he developed a version of slot grammar'.

(noun.) the trail of an animal (especially a deer); 'he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees'.

(noun.) a position in a hierarchy or organization; 'Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks'; 'she beat some tough competition for the number one slot'.

(verb.) assign a time slot; 'slot a television program'.

手打:胡里奥

• While the bed is still in this upright position, a one-inch slot is cut across where the foul line is to rest, and holes are bored through the bed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• This led to the demand for a nickel-in-the-slot machine, which, when established, became immensely popular over the whole country. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Its lower end fits into a slot in a metal plate, C, which in turn rests upon a carbon button. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The coin operated, or nickel-in-the-slot machine, finds a popular demand, while its utilitarian use as an amanuensis, or stenographer, is as yet a subordinate one. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I got up a slot contact for street railways, and have a patent on it--a sliding contact in a slot. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• When link C D is drawn up so that pin E is in the bottom of the slot, the eccentric A is active and B inactive, and as A has an opposite throw to B, the action of the valve is reversed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• At the pit end, circular slots are cut and holes bored for the purpose of countersinking and fastening the pin spots. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Pease took out patent No. 5,925 for a rake whose teeth projected up through slots in the platform, and moved back and forth to deposit the grain upon the ground. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In the same year Hussey took out his patent of August 7, 1847, No. 5,227, for the open top and slotted finger guard, which is an important part of all successful cutter bars. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He employed a bar having saw like teeth on one edge which projected up through a slotted plate and engaged the cloth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

手打:米格尔