jotverb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
uk/dʒɒt/us/dʒɑːt/-tt-to make a quick short note of something:
Could you jot your address and phone number in my address book?
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Writing & typing
- borrow
- chalk
- chronicle
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- enter
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write
- write sth up
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Phrasal verb(s)
jot sth down
jotnoun
uk/dʒɒt/us/dʒɑːt/informalnot a/one jot
not at all or not even a small amount:
Don't listen to her! There's not a jot of truth (= there is no truth) in what she's saying.
None of the committee's proposals will matter a jot (= they will not matter) if no one reads their report.
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinpoint
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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