word-vault/dist/data/cards/sl/slot.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "slot",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a long, narrow opening, into which you put or fit something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to put some coins in the slot"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He slid a coin into the slot of the jukebox."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The electricity was on a slot meter."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a position, a time or an opportunity for somebody/something, for example in a list, a programme of events or a series of broadcasts",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He has a regular slot on the late-night programme."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their album has occupied the Number One slot for the past six weeks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the airport’s take-off and landing slots"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have a prime time slot on national radio."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need something to fill a thirty-minute slot in the late evening."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/slɒt/",
                "audio": "sl/slot/slot__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/slɑːt/",
                "audio": "sl/slot/slot__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘slight depression running down the middle of the chest’, surviving as a Scots term): from Old French esclot, of obscure origin."
}