a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
a minute or small spot on a surface; speck: There were dots of soot on the window sill.
anything relatively small or specklike.
a small specimen, section, amount, or portion: 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. A double dot further increases the duration by one half the value of the single dot.
a point placed under or over a note to indicate that it is to be played staccato.
Telegraphy. a signal of shorter duration than a dash, used in groups along with groups of dashes and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.
Printing. an individual element in a halftone reproduction.
verb (used with object),dot·ted,dot·ting.
to mark with or as if with a dot or dots.
to stud or diversify with or as if with dots: Trees dot the landscape.
to form or cover with dots: He dotted a line across the page.
Cooking. to sprinkle with dabs of butter, margarine, or the like: Dot the filling with butter.
verb (used without object),dot·ted,dot·ting.
to make a dot or dots.
Idioms for dot
dot one's i's and cross one's t's, to be meticulous or precise, even to the smallest detail.
on the dot, Informal. precisely; exactly at the time specified: The guests arrived at eight o'clock on the dot.
the year dot, BritishInformal. very long ago.
Origin of dot
1
First recorded before 1000; perhaps to be identified with Old English dott “head of a boil,” though not attested in Middle English; cf. dottle, dit, derivative of Old English dyttan “to stop up” (probably derivative of dott ); cognate with Old High German tutta “nipple”
You could be, but chances are, they aren’t watching your little green dot at all times.
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Think of the colors assigned to the dots as coordinates which situate the dice in space.
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The process works a little like “connect the dots,” in which the software learns how to accurately fill in the missing pieces of information between the data points generated by the scanner.
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Hover over each of the dots to see how the map shook out in that simulation.
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Some also offer a chance to explore deeper by switching tabs or hovering on elements like dots or lines.
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Griffin mined the portfolios of four artists to create the vast collection of images that dot the book.
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That question is being raised again in light of previously unseen chat logs uncovered by Motherboard and the Daily Dot.
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Then after 9/11 and the Dot Com Crash, the money for a lot of the tech consulting she was doing in New York City dried up.
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A circle with a dot may be “3” on the keypad, while an arrow could be “9.”
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The recording point will in this manner be gently pressed against the glass plate, marking the dot, and then gradually set free.
Life Movements in Plants|Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
Dot herself hated working the pump—it blistered her little hands.
An Australian Lassie|Lilian Turner
In the diagrams of the meta-compounds the dot becomes a heart, in order to show the resultants of the lines of force.
Occult Chemistry|Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater
And Dot leaned on his crutches and looked round with bright wide-open eyes.
Esther|Rosa Nouchette Carey
Dot looked up at her friends when she heard this and shook her head energetically.
The Blue Birds' Winter Nest|Lillian Elizabeth Roy
British Dictionary definitions for dot (1 of 2)
dot1
/ (dɒt) /
noun
a small round mark made with or as with a pen, etc; spot; speck; point
anything resembling a dot; a small amounta dot of paint
the mark (˙) that appears above the main stem of the letters i, j
music
the symbol (·) placed after a note or rest to increase its time value by half
this symbol written above or below a note indicating that it must be played or sung staccato
mathslogic
the symbol (.) indicating multiplication or logical conjunction
a decimal point
the symbol (·) used, in combination with the symbol for dash (–), in the written representation of Morse and other telegraphic codesCompare dit
the year dotinformalas long ago as can be remembered
on the dotat exactly the arranged time
verbdots, dottingordotted
(tr)to mark or form with a dotto dot a letter; a dotted crotchet
(tr)to scatter or intersperse (with dots or something resembling dots)bushes dotting the plain
(intr)to make a dot or dots
dot one's i's and cross one's t'sto pay meticulous attention to detail
Derived forms of dot
dotter, noun
Word Origin for dot
Old English dott head of a boil; related to Old High German tutta nipple, Norwegian dott, Dutch dott lump
British Dictionary definitions for dot (2 of 2)
dot2
/ (dɒt) /
noun
civil lawa woman's dowry
Derived forms of dot
dotal (ˈdəʊtəl), adjective
Word Origin for dot
C19: from French, from Latin dōs; related to dōtāre to endow, dāre to give