| 单词 | dot |
| 释义 | dot dot1 —dotlike, adj. —dotter, n. /dot/, n. , v. , dotted, dotting. n. 1. a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen. 2. a minute or small spot on a surface; speck: There were dots of soot on the window sill. 3. anything relatively small or specklike. 4. a small specimen, section, amount, or portion: a dot of butter. 5. a period, esp. as used when pronouncing an Internet address. 6. Music. a. 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. b. a point placed under or over a note to indicate that it is to be played staccato. 7. Teleg. 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. 8. Print. an individual element in a halftone reproduction. 9. on the dot, Informal. precisely; exactly at the time specified: The guests arrived at eight o'clock on the dot. 10. the year dot, Brit. Informal. very long ago. v.t. 11. to mark with or as if with a dot or dots. 12. to stud or diversify with or as if with dots: Trees dot the landscape. 13. to form or cover with dots: He dotted a line across the page. 14. Cookery. to sprinkle with dabs of butter, margarine, or the like: Dot the filling with butter. v.i. 15. to make a dot or dots. 16. dot one's i's and cross one's t's, to be meticulous or precise, even to the smallest detail. [bef. 1000; perh. to be identified with OE dott head of a boil, though not attested in ME; cf. DOTTLE, dit, deriv. of OE dyttan to stop up (prob. deriv. of dott); c. OHG tutta nipple] dot2 —dotal /doht"l/, adj. /dot, dawt/, n. Civil Law. dowry (def. 1). [1850-55; < F < L dotem, acc. of dos dowry, akin to dare to give] |
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