different between slot vs rift

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

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?ft, IPA^(key): /??ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.

Noun

rift (plural rifts)

1. A chasm or fissure.

   My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.

   The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.

2. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:

     I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.

3. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Derived terms

• rift valley

Translations

Verb

rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)

1. (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
2. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.

   to rift an oak

   • to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt

   • 1822, William Wordsworth, "A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)" 9-11, [1]

     The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, [2]

     he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rypta.

Verb

rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.

Etymology 3

Verb

rift (obsolete)

1. past participle of rive

   The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift

   Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.

Anagrams

• FTIR, frit

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb rive

Noun

rift f or m (definite singular rifta or riften, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)

1. a rip, tear (in fabric)
2. a break (in the clouds)
3. a scratch (on skin, paint)
4. a rift (geology)

Derived terms

• riftdal

References

• “rift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rift” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb rive or riva

Noun

rift f (definite singular rifta, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)

1. a rip, tear (in fabric)
2. a break (in the clouds)
3. a scratch (on skin, paint)
4. a rift (geology)

Derived terms

• riftdal

References

• “rift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rift?, *riftij?, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?reb?- (“to cover; arch over; vault”). Cognate with Old High German peinrefta (“legwear; leggings”), Old Norse ript, ripti (“a kind of cloth; linen jerkin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rift/

Noun

rift n (nominative plural rift)

1. a veil; curtain; cloak

Related terms

• rifte

Descendants

• Middle English: rift

Romanian

Etymology

From French rift.

Noun

rift n (plural rifturi)

1. rift

Declension

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse rypta.

Verb

rift (third-person singular present rifts, present participle riftin, past riftit, past participle riftit)

1. to belch, burp