dot
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dot"
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
dot (plural dots)
- A small, round spot.
- 1845, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems, lines 269–272:
- 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.
- 1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, page v:
- THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO
A VERY SMALL DOT
IN
A VERY BIG UNIVERSE
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- Hyponym: (over the letters i and j) tittle
- (mathematics) 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.
- Synonym: decimal point
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- Synonym: dit
- (obsolete) A lump or clot.
- Synonym: blob
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- Synonyms: (amount) dab, ounce, (thing) dicky-bird, itsy-bitsy, minuity; see also Thesaurus:modicum
- a dot of a child
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- Synonym: shotty
- 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:
- 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
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
- Synonyms: bruckback, broom, scattergun, shotty
- (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
- Synonyms: slammer, can, bin; see also Thesaurus:prison
- 2024 March 17, “Scummy” (0:31 from the start), Trizz #Birmingham (lyrics):
- 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
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- antidot
- biodot
- chroma dot
- connect the dots
- day dot
- dot and carry
- dot-and-go-one
- dot blot
- dot-bomb
- dot bomb
- dot-carnage
- dotcom
- dot-com
- dot com
- dot-coma
- dot-com boom
- dot-com bubble
- dot-comer
- dot-commer
- dot-commiserate
- dot crawl
- dot dot dot
- dot dot slash
- dotfile
- dothead
- dot Indian
- dotless
- dotlet
- dotlike
- dot-matrix
- dot matrix
- dot matrix printer
- dotmocracy
- dot or feather
- dot painting
- dotplot
- dot point
- dot product
- dot release
- dots and boxes
- dots per inch
- dottel
- dotter
- dottle
- dot to dot
- dotty
- fruit dot
- immunodot
- ink dot
- inkdot
- ink-dot
- interdot
- intradot
- jazz dot
- join the dots
- microdot
- mid-dot
- middot
- mil-dot
- multiple evanescent white dot syndrome
- nanodot
- off one's dot
- on the dot
- overdot
- pale blue dot
- pindot
- poke-a-dot
- poke a dot
- polka-dot
- polka-dot plant
- pseudodot
- quantum dot
- Red Dot
- rock dots
- sesame dot
- suspension dots
- Swiss dot
- the year dot
- to the dot
- underdot
- white dot syndrome
Translations
small spot or mark
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punctuation mark
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diacritical mark
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decimal point
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morse code symbol
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dot in URL's or email addresses
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Verb
dot (third-person singular simple present dots, present participle dotting, simple past and past participle dotted)
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
- Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
- 1988, Bernard Wolf, In the Year of the Tiger, 1st edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
- Yang Shuo county, in the middle of the Guangxi Autonomous Region, is an area dotted by hundreds of little villages, all looking much alike.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- Dot your is and cross your ts.
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- to dot a line
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- to dot a landscape with cottages
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:
- The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
- 2023 April 14, Rosyln Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times:
- Wooden crosses, some drunkenly askew, dot a darkened stage at the start of Vuyani Dance Theater’s “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero.” There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs.
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
- 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 332:
- `Which means,' said John, `that someone dotted him a good one, shoved him into the bathtub, ran the water, then opened his mouth and poured champagne into it until he drowned.'
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
To cover with dots, to mark with dots
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Preposition
dot
- Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
- The work is equal to F dot Δx.
Coordinate terms
Translations
dot product of
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Noun
dot (plural dots)
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 53”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
"Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot."
- 1927, Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman:
- As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.
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Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *dhētim, accusative of Proto-Indo-European *dhē (“to put”). Alternatively it might represent a univerbation of do + të; Gustav Meyer opines for a Latin provenance, from in toto.
Particle
dot
- Expresses impossibility, thus it corresponds to "Can't" in negative sentences and "can" in interrogative ones.
- Nuk e bëj dot.
- I can't do it.
- A vjen dot?
- Can you come?
Related terms
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
dot m (plural dots)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French hadot. Cognate with English haddock.
Noun
dot m (plural dots)
- Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus)
- Synonyms: rascàs, pàmpol rascàs, gerna, famfre
Further reading
- “dot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Champenois
Alternative forms
- (Rémois) doil, doilleute
Etymology
Inherited from Old French doit, from Latin digitus.
Pronunciation
Noun
dot m (plural dots)
- (Troyen, Langrois) finger
References
Dutch
Etymology
A secondary form of dodde (“long, soft raceme, as of a cattail plant”), a word of uncertain but perhaps gibberish origin related to German Dutte, düttenkolb (“bulrush”), themselves linked to words like Zitze, Titte.
Pronunciation
Noun
dot m or f (plural dotten, diminutive dotje n)
- a tuft, a bunch, a clump
- (informal) a lot, a large amount
- een dot geld - a lot of money
- cutie, something small and adorable
- darling, sweetie (almost always used in its diminutive form - dotje)
- a swab
Synonyms
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French dot (16th c.), a borrowing from Latin dos. Doublet of dose.
Pronunciation
Noun
dot f (plural dots)
- dowry, marriage portion
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “dot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Contraction
dot (triggers lenition)
- (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).
- An bhfuilir dílis dot chéile?
- Are you faithful to your spouse?
Related terms
| Basic form | Contracted with | Copular forms | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| an (“the sg”) | na (“the pl”) | mo (“my”) | do (“your”) | a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) | ár (“our”) | ar (“which (past)”) | (before consonant) | (present/future before vowel) | (past/conditional before vowel) | |
| de (“from”) | den | de na desna* | de mo dem* | de do ded*, det* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
| do (“to, for”) | don | do na dosna* | do mo dom* | do do dod*, dot* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
| faoi (“under, about”) | faoin | faoi na | faoi mo | faoi do | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh | |
| i (“in”) | sa, san | sna | i mo im* | i do id*, it* | ina | inár | inar | inarb | inarbh | |
| le (“with”) | leis an | leis na | le mo lem* | le do led*, let* | lena | lenár | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh | |
| ó (“from, since”) | ón | ó na ósna* | ó mo óm* | ó do ód*, ót* | óna | ónár | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh | |
| trí (“through”) | tríd an | trí na | trí mo | trí do | trína | trínár | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh | |
| *Dialectal. | ||||||||||
Irish preposition contractions
Klamath-Modoc
Alternative forms
- tút (Gatschet)
Noun
dot
References
- Barker, M. A. R. (1963). Klamath Dictionary. University of California Publications in Linguistics 31. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Gatschet, Samuel S. (1890). The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon. Volume II, Part II. United States Government Printing Office.
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