place vs slot

place

verb
  • To place-kick (a goal). 

  • To arrange for or to make (a bet). 

  • To finish second, especially of horses or dogs. 

  • To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. 

  • To earn a given spot in a competition. 

  • To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. 

  • To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. 

  • To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar). 

  • To put (an object or person) in a specific location. 

  • To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc. 

noun
  • An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. 

  • Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. 

  • A state of mind. 

  • The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. 

  • An area of the body, especially the skin. 

  • An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. 

  • The position of a contestant in a competition. 

  • A location or position in space. 

  • Reception; effect; implying the making room for. 

  • The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. 

  • A role or purpose; a station. 

  • A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name. 

  • The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms. 

  • A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. 

  • The position as a member of a sports team. 

  • Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding. 

  • An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. 

  • Any area of the earth: a region. 

slot

verb
  • To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this. 

  • To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse. 

  • To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence) 

  • To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture) 

  • To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining. 

  • To put something where it belongs. 

  • To kill. 

noun
  • The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors. 

  • A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc. 

  • The vagina. 

  • A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings. 

  • The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor. 

  • A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse. 

  • A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored. 

  • A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line. 

  • A period of time within a schedule or sequence. 

  • A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it. 

  • A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece. 

  • An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like. 

  • The barrel or tube of a wave. 

  • A slot machine designed for gambling. 

  • The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side. 

  • In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen. 

  • The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway. 

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