verb
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To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
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To shut with violence; to slam.
example
to slot a door
verb
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To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
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To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
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To put something where it belongs.
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(Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
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(Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
noun
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Allocation to a slot
Examples of slotting in a Sentence
For example, in a machine-work, the steam-engine, which is the prime mover of the various tools, has a flywheel on the crank-shaft to store and restore the periodical excess of energy arising from the variations in the effort exerted by the connecting-rod upon the crank; and each of the slotting machines, punching machines, riveting machines, and other tools has a flywheel of its own to store and restore energy, so as to enable the very different resistances opposed to those tools at different times to be overcome without too great unsteadiness of motion.
Instead, he 's settled on becoming the new Ray Davies, slotting a ragbag collection of characters into his innately personal songs.
Titrations calculations were done by slotting numbers into a formula.