A time assigned on a schedule or agenda

Usage examples of slot.

I started to laugh, but the bartender shouted to another young man shoveling quarters into a nearby slot.

They moved up and down the stands almost like peanut vendors in the States, calling out the constantly changing odds, throwing some kind of ball to prospective bettors, who put their money in a slot in the ball and took out the chit with the current line.

Remove the shrimp paste with a slotted spoon to a mortar, blender, or food processor.

She called the traffic tower to ask for another landing slot, preferably nearer the brawn barracks.

Dorrin puts his half-empty cup in one of the slots in the center of the table and stands, glancing from Kadara to Brede and back.

Duggan had little doubt that Brose was saying similar things to Stell too, who was also a candidate for the slot.

The burin reflects concurrent development from flaking to grinding through time and is considered essential for the manufacture of antler, ivory, and bone projectile points and inset slots.

As the elevator doors closed, Marit inserted a coded card into a slot on the wall.

Network and slotted a second bootlegged microfiche into the slant-topped console.

The phagors shambled back and forth, sticking their milts up their slotted nostrils, and occasionally exchanging a grunted word with each other.

She wanted to be mistaken, to have misplaced, miscounted the essentially interchangeable stock, but knew at once that no amount of wishful thinking, checking, rechecking the shelves, could erase the stubborn fact of loss gaping up at her from the mockingly vacant slots of the gem trays.

She had no doubt they had questioned, examined and tested him thoroughly, then assigned Morraine to some neat little slot that made the men in white jackets feel more secure and organized in their world.

Moreover, it was obvious even before Ulwy Munt made a trial that they fitted tightly into slots and grooves on the inside of the curved piece that Galvadon had secured today.

The individuals represented by those neatly slotted cards do donate their total income to the Parapsychic Center.

I selected one of the large denomination plastified notes and fed it into the slot.