slot

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
slot1

▶noun

• 1 a long, narrow aperture or slit into which something may be fitted or inserted.

• 2 an allotted place in an arrangement or scheme such as a broadcasting schedule.

▶verb (slots, slotting, slotted) place or be placed into a slot.

■ Brit. informal (in soccer) score (a goal) with a precise shot.

■ (slot in/into) fit easily into (a new role or situation).

– derivatives
slotted adjective.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘slight depression running down the middle of the chest’): from OFr. esclot, of obscure origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
slot2

▶noun the track of a deer, visible as slotted footprints in soft ground.

– origin C16: from OFr. esclot ‘hoofprint of a horse’, prob. from ON slóth ‘trail’; cf. sleuth.