Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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slot

UK /slɒt/ · US /slɑt/ noun, verb

Forms slots slotting slotted slote

  1. noun A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it. “insert tab A into slot B”
  2. noun A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence. “I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.”
  3. noun The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
  4. noun (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
  5. noun (slang) The vulva.
  6. noun (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  7. noun (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored. “The game offers four save slots.”
  8. noun (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  9. verb To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
  10. verb To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
  11. verb To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
  12. verb To put something where it belongs.
  13. verb (slang, UK, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
  14. verb (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
  15. verb (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
  16. noun A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
  17. noun A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
  18. noun (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
  19. noun (obsolete) A fort or castle.
  20. verb (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.

Synonyms

time slot expansion slot one-armed bandit

Antonyms

tab

Etymology

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

From Middle English slot, from Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with Dutch slot, German Schloss (“door-bolt”).
The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
  2. noun A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. verb To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  4. noun The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. Milton.

Etymology [LG. & D. slot a lock, from a verb meaning to close., to shut, D. sluiten; akin to G. schliessen, OHG. sliozan, OFries. sl, and probably to L. claudere. Cf. Close, Sluice.]

Etymology [See Slot a bar.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “slot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details