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"A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc."
],
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"sense": "wooden bar for fastening door",
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"word": "門閂"
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],
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "broad bolt or bar, crosspiece",
"word": "liste"
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"word": "lamel"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"form": "slotting",
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"To bar, bolt or lock a door or window."
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"(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window."
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"To shut with violence; to slam."
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"(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam."
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "coin slot"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "death slot"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "delay slot"
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{
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"word": "expansion slot"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "God slot"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "graveyard slot"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "save slot"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slot canyon"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slot car"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slot jockey"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slot-loading disc drive"
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{
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"word": "slot machine"
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{
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"word": "slot pair"
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{
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"word": "slot racing"
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"word": "slot time"
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"A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it."
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"tags": [
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"word": "sprække"
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{
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{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
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"word": "reikä"
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"code": "fi",
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{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "aukko"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
"code": "fi",
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"note": "with hinged cover",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "luukku"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "emplacement"
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{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fente"
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{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
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"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
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],
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"tags": [
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"word": "abertura"
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"tags": [
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"word": "encaixe"
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{
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nut"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fessura"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scanalatura"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
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"word": "kapiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 10 0 2 0 6 3 5 1 1 1 5 2",
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"word": "fenda"
},
{
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"word": "ranhura"
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"ref": "1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 216",
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{
"ref": "1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe",
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"ref": "2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212",
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"plural"
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"ref": "1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111",
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[
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],
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"kind": "topical",
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"surfing"
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
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"Human activity",
"Winter",
"Human behaviour",
"Seasons",
"Human",
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"Periodic occurrences",
"All topics",
"Time",
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[
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[
"ice hockey",
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],
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{
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],
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[
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{
"ref": "2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time",
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{
"ref": "2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165",
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{
"ref": "2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20",
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"ref": "2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC",
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{
"ref": "1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Davy Thompson, Uniforms and Boats, page 59",
"text": "Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.",
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},
{
"ref": "2013, Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero: The 20th Anniversary Edition, page 184",
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],
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"English slang"
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"The vagina."
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[
"vagina",
"vagina"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) The vagina."
],
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"slang"
]
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"en:Aviation"
],
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"The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway."
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[
"aviation",
"aviation"
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[
"departure",
"departure"
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[
"arrival",
"arrival"
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[
"runway",
"runway"
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"(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway."
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"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"aviation",
"business",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
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"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Computing"
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"text": "The game offers four save slots.",
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"A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored."
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[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
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[
"space",
"space"
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[
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"memory"
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[
"disk",
"disk"
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
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"categories": [
"en:Aviation"
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"In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen."
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[
"aviation",
"aviation"
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],
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"(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen."
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"topics": [
"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"aviation",
"business",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
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"categories": [
"English slang",
"en:Surfing"
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"glosses": [
"The barrel or tube of a wave."
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[
"surfing",
"surfing#Noun"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave."
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"slang"
],
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"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports",
"surfing"
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"en:Field hockey",
"en:Ice hockey"
],
"glosses": [
"A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line."
],
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[
"field hockey",
"field hockey"
],
[
"ice hockey",
"ice hockey"
]
],
"qualifier": "field hockey or ice hockey",
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"(field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line."
]
},
{
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"en:Football (American)"
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"The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side."
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"American football",
"American football"
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[
"offensive",
"offensive"
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"lineman",
"lineman"
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"wide receiver",
"wide receiver"
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"(American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side."
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"American-football",
"ball-games",
"football",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
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{
"ref": "2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time",
"text": "According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.",
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},
{
"ref": "2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings."
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[
"stator",
"stator"
],
[
"rotor",
"rotor"
],
[
"ventilation",
"ventilation"
]
],
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"(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings."
],
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"business",
"electrical",
"electrical-engineering",
"electricity",
"electromagnetism",
"energy",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Mass media"
],
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{
"ref": "1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111",
"text": "The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"glosses": [
"The inside of the \"rim\" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors."
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[
"journalism",
"journalism"
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[
"rim",
"rim"
],
[
"supervisor",
"supervisor"
],
[
"copy editor",
"copy editor"
]
],
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"(journalism) The inside of the \"rim\" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors."
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"journalism",
"media"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/slɒt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/slɑt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒt"
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{
"audio": "en-us-slot.ogg",
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"US"
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"text": "Audio (US)"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "proluka",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "cepnatina",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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"feminine"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prorez",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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},
{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "sprække"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "revne"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "with hinged cover",
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"word": "luukku"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "emplacement"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fente"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rañura"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "encaixe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schlitz"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nut"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fessura"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scanalatura"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "kapiti"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "fenda"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "ranhura"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"word": "abertura"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ščelʹ",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "щель"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otvérstije",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "отве́рстие"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "slot",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "слот"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ranura"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ščílyna",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "щі́лина"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "šparýna",
"sense": "narrow depression, perforation, or aperture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шпари́на"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival",
"word": "slotti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival",
"word": "varattu aika"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Startfenster"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sleda",
"sense": "the track of an animal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "the track of an animal",
"word": "spor"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the track of an animal",
"word": "jälki"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the track of an animal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "traccia"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the track of an animal",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "pista"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the track of an animal",
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"feminine",
"plural"
],
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"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from Old Norse",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
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"word": "mail slot"
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{
"word": "slot in"
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{
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"singular",
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"put"
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"To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)"
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"assign"
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"categories": [
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"To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining."
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{
"ref": "2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC",
"text": "And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To put something where it belongs."
]
},
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"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Rhodesian English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31",
"text": "One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble \"slotting\" floppies. \"The more I kill,\" he said, \"the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Davy Thompson, Uniforms and Boats, page 59",
"text": "Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero: The 20th Anniversary Edition, page 184",
"text": "They fired into the air on automatic and I thought, here we go, all I need is for one of these rounds to come down and slot me through the head.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To kill."
],
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[
"kill",
"kill"
]
],
"qualifier": "sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth",
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"(slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"Rhodesia",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Antarctic English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967 June, “Australians' Autumn Journeys Have Perilous Moments”, in Antarctic, volume 4, number 10, New Zealand Antarctic Society, pages 503–504",
"text": "The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, \"Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time\", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Hazel Edwards, Antarctica's Frozen Chosen",
"text": "I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse."
],
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[
"crevasse",
"crevasse"
]
],
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"(Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse."
]
},
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"English informal terms",
"en:Australian rules football",
"en:Rugby"
],
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"To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this."
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"Australian rules football",
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[
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[
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[
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"post"
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[
"goal",
"goal"
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[
"score",
"score"
]
],
"qualifier": "Australian rules football",
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"(Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this."
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"informal"
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"ball-games",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"rugby",
"sports"
]
}
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"UK"
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"US"
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"tags": [
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"slot"
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"word": "slot"
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