a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, esp. a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
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a place or position, as in a sequence or series: The program received a new time slot on the broadcasting schedule.
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Linguistics. (esp. in tagmemics) a position having a specific grammatical function within a construction into which any one of a set of morphemes or morpheme sequences can be fit. Compare filler(def. 9).
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an assignment or job opening; position: I applied for the slot in management training.
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Journalism.
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the interior opening in a copy desk, occupied by the chief copy editor.
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the job or position of chief copy editor: He had the slot at the Gazette for 20 years.Compare rim(def. 7).
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an allocated, scheduled time and place for an aircraft to take off or land, as authorized by an airport or air-traffic authority: 40 more slots for the new airline at U.S. airports.
Ornithology. a narrow notch or other similar opening between the tips of the primaries of certain birds, which during flight helps to maintain a smooth flow of air over the wings.
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Ice Hockey. an unmarked area near the front of an opponent's goal that affords a vantage for an attacking player.
any complex agency or operating system: the machine of government.
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an organized group of persons that conducts or controls the activities of a political party or organization: He heads the Democratic machine in our city.
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a person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner: Routine work had turned her into a machine.
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any of various contrivances, esp. those formerly used in theater, for producing stage effects
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some agency, personage, incident or other feature introduced for effect into a literary composition.
–verb (used with object)
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to make, prepare, or finish with a machine or with machine tools.
slot machine gambling device operated by dropping one or more coins or tokens into a slot and pulling a handle or pushing a button to activate one to three or more reels marked into horizontal segments by varying ...
pinball machine earliest of the coin-activated popular electromechanical games, usually found in candy stores, pool halls, drinking establishments, and amusement arcades, some of which, at the height of the game's ...
machine tool A milling machine cuts metal as the workpiece is fed against a rotating cutting tool called a milling cutter. Cutters of many shapes and sizes are available for a wide variety of milling operations. ...
tunnels and underground excavations Sporadic attempts to realize the tunnel engineer's dream of a mechanical rotary excavator culminated in 1954 at Oahe Dam on the Missouri River near Pierre, in South Dakota. With ground conditions ...
fat and oil processing Many different mechanical devices have been used for pressing. The Romans developed a screw press, described by Pliny, for the production of olive oil. Centuries ago, the Chinese employed the same ...
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poker Video poker games have very little appeal to serious poker players because the human element is completely removed from the contest-which thus eliminates bluffing and tells ("reading" other players) ...
gaming, Indian in the United States, gambling enterprises that are owned by federally recognized Native American tribal governments and that operate on reservation or other tribal lands. Indian gaming includes a ...
State and Local Affairs Gambling initiatives were on more state ballots than any other issue in 1994, but their luck in winning passage was mixed. Florida voters rejected the Proposition for Limited Casinos; off-track ...
gambling the betting or staking of something of value, with consciousness of risk and hope of gain, on the outcome of a game, a contest, or an uncertain event whose result may be determined by chance or ...
NWI Times - Found Dec. 27, 2008 The Las Vegas-based gaming manufacturer unveiled a 'slot machine built for two' during last month's Global Gaming Expo.
Channel 10 - Found Dec. 28, 2008 This Silverlight application spins around bits and pieces of mismatched resolutions like some Vegas slot machine matching up promises (“will...
NWI Times - Found Dec. 26, 2008 The Las Vegas-based gaming manufacturer unveiled a 'slot machine built for two' during last month's Global Gaming Expo.
Online-Casinos.com - Found Dec. 24, 2008 The woman was playing a land slot in Dunedin, New Zealand when it briefly showed a 36 million jackpot hit...but she then found the machine was...
Japan Today - Found Dec. 21, 2008 A 2-year-old boy lost the tip of the forefinger of his left hand after he got it stuck in the change slot of a game machine at an arcade in Kashiba
The Escapist - Found Dec. 18, 2008 ... aruze, it is you who will bite me, pachinko, shadow hearts, slot machine The Shadow Hearts RPG series lives on, but not in a way that's liable to ...
24-7PressRelease.com - Found Dec. 18, 2008 ... introduced its first slot machine for the mobile phone/PDA platform. The company also operates FreeSlot.com where new players can play slot...
CNBC - Found Dec. 15, 2008 NEW YORK - Slot machine makers are likely to outperform casino operators and other leisure-oriented companies partly due to their low balance sheet
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