dot
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//dɒt//
- United States//dɑt//
- Australia//dɔt//
A small, round spot.
noun
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A small, round spot.
a dot of colour
Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO A VERY SMALL DOT IN A VERY BIG UNIVERSE
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A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]
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A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
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A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
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in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
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One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.
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obsoleteA lump or clot.
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Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
a dot of a child
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informalA dot ball.
That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.
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buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
Can’t miss no dots Every shot let caused I’m hittin Used to bag it up in the toilet My mumsie thought I was shittin
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rareconfinement facility
The feds want me in the dot I got luck for selling them drugs But when I come out I’m still building a spot
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Variant of dottyClipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block
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Variant of dotfileClipping of dotfile
Etymology
From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
Forms
- plural
- dots