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   Dot

   /dät/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small round mark or spot: "a symbol depicted in colored dots"
   • ▪ a dot written or printed as part of an i or j, as a diacritical mark, as one of a series of marks to signify omission, or as a period.
   • ▪ a dot used to denote the lengthening of a note or rest by half, or to indicate staccato.
   • ▪ the shorter signal of the two used in Morse code.
   • ▪ used to refer to an object that appears tiny because it is far away: "the desert shrank figures to mere dots"
   • ▪ used to indicate the punctuation separating parts of an email or website address: "OUP dot com"

   verb

   • 1. mark with a small spot or spots: "wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt" Similar spotfleckbespecklemarkdabstipplepockfrecklesprinkledustliterary:befleckbestrewbesprinkle
   • ▪ (of a number of items) be scattered over (an area): "churches dot the countryside" Similar scatterpeppersprinklestrewlitterpunctuatestudcoverspreaddisperseinterspersedistribute
   • ▪ place a dot over (a letter): "you need to dot the i"
   • ▪ mark (a note or rest) to show that the time value is increased by half: "dotting the quarter note for everyone is a common practice"

   Word Origin Old Englishdott ‘head of a boil’. The word is recorded only once in Old English, then not until the late 16th century, when it is found in the sense ‘a small lump or clot’, perhaps influenced by Dutch dot ‘a knot’. The sense ‘small mark or spot’ dates from the mid 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. dotter noun

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   What does a dot mean?

   • At three thousand yards a man appears as a mere dot, which is not readily distinguishable. All the way the scenery is pretty, but with no very striking features, and villas dot the roadside for a considerable distance. Dot definition: a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.. See examples of DOT used in a sentence.

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   What does a dot look like?

   • A dot is a very small round mark, for example one that is used as the top part of the letter 'i', as a full stop, or as a decimal point. You can refer to something that you can see in the distance and that looks like a small round mark as a dot . Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon.

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   What is a dot on a window?

   • a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen. There were dots of soot on the windowsill. anything relatively small or specklike. a dot of butter. a period, especially as used when pronouncing an internet address. Music. a point placed after a note or rest, to indicate that the duration of the note or rest is to be increased one half.

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   What does dot mean in French?

   • DOT. This French word is adopted in Louisiana. It signifies the fortune, portion, or dowry, which a woman brings to her husband by the marriage. 6 N. S. 460. See Dote; Dowry. dot - decimal point. See also dot file, dot notation.

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   Define dot. dot synonyms, dot pronunciation, dot translation, English dictionary definition of dot. abbr. Department of Transportation n. 1. a. A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot. b. Such a mark used in orthography, as above...

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    A dot is a round speck or spot. A first grade teacher might remind his students to put dots on their i s and j s. A period, a little circle or point, is a dot. Another kind is a polka dot, which might decorate your favorite pair of shorts or the curtains in your room. In Morse code, a dot is a short signal, as opposed to the longer "dash."