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- 1 A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
- 2 Initialism of Department of Transportation or Department of Transport. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"Alaska DOT crews returned to Igiugig on Tuesday to repair the lights, which are now back in service, Dapcevich said."
- 3 Initialism of Department of Tourism. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 A small, round spot.
"a dot of colour"
- 2 A dowry. Louisiana, US
""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.""
- 3 Initialism of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 4 Alternative spelling of DOT. alt-of, alternative
- 5 street name for lysergic acid diethylamide wordnet
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- 6 A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- 7 Initialism of damage over time. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 8 the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code wordnet
- 9 A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- 10 A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage. broadly, countable, uncountable
- 11 the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966 wordnet
- 12 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.
- 13 a very small circular shape wordnet
- 14 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%.
- 15 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."
- 16 A lump or clot. obsolete
- 17 Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
"a dot of a child"
- 18 A dot ball. informal
"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."
- 19 buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun Multicultural-London-English
"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"
- 20 Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”). Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
"We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block"
- 21 confinement facility Multicultural-London-English, rare, slang
"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"
- 1 Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
"The work is equal to F dot Δx."
- 1 To cover with small spots (of some liquid). transitive
"His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint."
- 2 mark with a dot wordnet
- 3 To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to. transitive
"Dot your is and cross your ts."
- 4 make a dot or dots wordnet
- 5 To mark by means of dots or small spots.
"to dot a line"
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- 6 distribute loosely wordnet
- 7 To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
"to dot a landscape with cottages"
- 8 scatter or intersperse like dots or studs wordnet
- 9 To punch (a person). colloquial
"`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.'"
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”).
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”).
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”).
From French dot.
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