slotted

1. 1
   adjective

   Having one or more narrow openings, slots, or grooves cut into it.

   Engineers chose a slotted plate so the bolts could be adjusted later.

   The desk came with a slotted panel for routing cables out of sight.

   Similargrooved, notched, perforated, slit

   Oppositesolid

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of slot.

   The carpenter slotted each panel firmly into the frame.

   The new player slotted into the team without any trouble.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past tense and past participle, with the final t doubled before -ed. It carries every sense of the verb: a coin slotted into a machine, a meeting slotted into a schedule, a groove slotted into wood. Take care when a person is the object. In British and Rhodesian slang, to slot someone is to kill them, so "he was slotted" can be grim.

3. 3
   adjective

   Containing crevasses, the deep open cracks that form in a glacier or ice sheet.

   Below the icefall the glacier was badly slotted, and two sleds broke through thin snow bridges into crevasses.

   Before the convoy crossed the slotted ice shelf, surveyors swept it with radar to find the hidden crevasses.

   Similarcrevassed, fissured, cracked

   Note

   Antarctic travelers' language for the surface itself: ice or snow seamed with crevasses, as in slotted ice. It describes ground, never a person or machine. It is also not comparable, so terrain is either slotted or it is not. Keep it apart from the "trapped in a crevasse" meaning, where the slotted thing is the vehicle that has fallen in.

4. 4
   adjective

   Caught and held fast inside a crevasse, unable to move freely.

   The tractor sat slotted in the ice for hours until a winch freed it.

   A slotted snowmobile dangled over the void until the team hauled it up.

   Similarstuck, trapped, wedged, lodged, jammed

   Oppositefree, loose

   Note

   This is the aftermath of the Antarctic verb slot, "to fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse": once a tractor or sled has gone in and stuck, it is slotted. The word fastens on what is caught rather than on the ice. It typically follows verbs of position or result, such as sit, end up or be left.

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