different between interstice vs slot

English

Etymology

Old French interstice, from Latin interstitium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?t??.st?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?t?.st?s/

Noun

interstice (plural interstices)

1. A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal.
2. (figuratively) A fragment of space.
3. An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
4. (by extension) A small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:interstice.

Synonyms

• (small opening or space between objects): chink, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, gap, slit; see also Thesaurus:interspace or Thesaurus:hole

Derived terms

• interstitial

Translations

Further reading

• interstice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• interstice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.stis/

Noun

interstice m (plural interstices)

1. (religion) interstice
2. gap, interval

Derived terms

• interstitiel

Further reading

• “interstice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slut?. Cognate with German Schloss (“door-bolt”), Dutch slot.

The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).

Noun

slot (plural slots)

1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
3. (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
5. (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
6. (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.

Translations

Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
2. (obsolete, transitive, Britain, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.

   to slot a door

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). Compare sleuth.

Noun

slot (plural slots)

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
2. A period of time within a schedule or sequence.

   I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.

3. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
4. (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
5. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
6. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

7. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.

8. (slang) The vagina.
9. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 216[2]:

     The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves
10. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

Derived terms

• slotwise
• slot-hound

Translations

Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
3. To put something where it belongs.
4. (slang, Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
5. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
6. (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

Derived terms

• slot in

See also

• close
• sluice

Anagrams

• LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lost, lots, tols

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German slot (“bolt, lock, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *slut?, related to the verb *sleutan? (“to lock”); cognate with German Schloss (“lock, castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sl?d?]

Noun

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

1. castle, palace, manor house

Inflection

Derived terms

• sandslot

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slot, from Old Dutch *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slut?, related to the verb *sleutan? (“to lock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?t/
• Hyphenation: slot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

slot n (plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)

1. lock (something used for fastening)
2. castle
3. end, conclusion

Synonyms

• (castle): kasteel, burcht
• (end): eind, einde

Derived terms

• (lock): op slot
• (castle): slotgracht, slottoren
• (end): tenslotte, ten slotte, slotpleidooi, slotrede

Related terms

• sleutel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: slot
• ? Indonesian: selot

Anagrams

• lost, stol