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Noun slot has 7 senses

slot - a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar"
--₁ is a kind of position, spatial relation
slot - a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail); "he put a quarter in the slot"
--₂ is a kind of slit
--₂ has particulars: coin slot; mail slot
time slot, slot - a time assigned on a schedule or agenda; "the TV program has a new time slot"; "an aircraft landing slot"
--₃ is a kind of time interval, interval

Derived form: verb slot₁
slot - 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"
--₄ is a kind of status, position
slot - the trail of an animal (especially a deer); "he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees"
--₅ is a kind of trail
slot, expansion slot - (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board; "the PC had three slots for additional memory"
--₆ is a kind of receptacle
slot, one-armed bandit - a slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours and hours just playing the slots"
--₇ is a kind of slot machine, coin machine
--₇ has particulars: fruit machine

Verb slot has 1 sense

slot - assign a time slot; "slot a television programs"
--₁ is one way to schedule

Derived form: noun slot₃
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something