Dot

Definition: Dot

Dot

Noun

1. A very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots".

2. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

Verb

1. Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights".

2. Distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon.".

3. Make a dot or dots.

4. Mark with a dot; "dot your 'i's".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Dot" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gift from God".

Date "dot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Note: Dot \Dot\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Dotted; Dotting.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Census

Metallurgy

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

DOT

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Dot

Giving

Bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance; amortization.

Indication

Put an indication, put a mark; Noun: note, mark, stamp, earmark; blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print; imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype.

Mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick.

Inextension

Noun: inextension, nonextension, point; dot; atom; (smallness).

Place

Noun: place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook; (corner); hole; pigeonhole; (receptacle); compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality; (situation).

Smallness

Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Dot

Dutch (chunk, clod, lump, tuft), French (dower, dowry, portion), Indonesian (nipple, pacifier), Portuguese (dinitolmide, E752), Welsh (dot, giddiness, vertigo).

Dot, stay frosty. (ReBoot; writing credit: Christy Marx; Mark Leiren-Young)

Well, it's Dot with that haircut she hadwhen we first metand she's smiling. (ReBoot: Daemon Rising; writing credit: Gavin Blair; Philip Mitchell)

The line is a dot to you! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

The manly dot! (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson)

Daniel, because you violated Section 4219 2R9-4000 6 dot 1 dash 7, B, of the code of Babylon, forbidding prayer to anyone but King Darius- you are hereby sentenced to be consumed by the lions. (VeggieTales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared?; writing credit: Norma Marcos)

Hit me up, Tre+ dot com (Take it to Da House; performing artist: Trick Daddy)

You don't know bout me J. Dot (Take it to Da House; performing artist: Trick Daddy)

Polka Dot Door (1971)

The Dot and the Line (1965)

Dot the I (2003)

BBC Reports: Dot.Com Fever (2000)

Dot Comedy (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Dot Hill Systems Corpn: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Dot to Dot Dinosaurs (Usborne Dot-To-Dot) (reference)

• Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (reference)

• The Greatest Dot to Dot Book 3 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dot.ie (reference)

• Transporting Hazardous Wastes & Other Hazardous Materials : A Guide To Dot Regulations (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dot and the Kangaroo (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dot Com Blues (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Adobe Frameviewer 5.5 Includes Silent 5.5.6 Dot Rev (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Baby Dot Litevibes Bassinet (reference)

• Navy Dot Travel Savvy Stroller (reference)

• Global 8-Slot Stainless-Steel Knife Holder with Dot Pattern (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a mammogram of a breast interpreted as normal. The white dot indicates location of palpable abnormality. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The maximum size of red blood cells infected with Plasmodium vivax ranges between 1.5 - 2 times their normal size. Numerous Sch�ffner's dots are found within the RBC, as well as three rings, each containing one chromatin dot. Credit: CDC.

The immature trophozoite (ring stage) of the P. malariae parasite has a sturdy cytoplasm and usually one large chromatin dot. These parasites may mature into an erythrocytic schizont or gametocytes. Credit: CDC.

On the edge of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, sand dunes are encroaching onto once-fertile lands in the north. Healthy vegetation appears red in this image; in the center, notice the lone red dot. It is the result of a center-pivot irrigation system, evidence that at least one optimistic farmer continues to work the fields despite the approaching sand. Credit: NASA.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Lobster - Homarus americanus. A large lobster has been set on the top of a lobster pot. Buoys dot Narragansett Bay marking the sites of lobster pots. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

South front and east side. Photograph by David Johnson, March 29, 1981. (Reproduction Number: HABS, KANS,21-HOPE.V,1-B-2) As with the one-room schoolhouse, the single-family farm complexes that dot the American landscape are symbols of our rural heritage. The simple and straightforward structure of this barn is typical of the utilitarian character of agrarian buildings. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dottie and Lottie. It was like this Nelly : Mazie and me and Dot all three of us got on the same 4th Ave. car ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Scuttled -- only Germans should do dot!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vait, vere iss dot key?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pearly teeth and polka dot columns formed a backdrop for these road show chorus cuties at the Capitol Theatre in the 1930s. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct handwriting, not omitting a dot, and making the paper squeak resolutely under his pen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Patient education is essential, and many doctors opt for supervised, directly observed therapy (DOT). (references)

You will be asked to cover one eye and stare at a black dot in the center of the grid. While staring at the dot, you may notice that the straight lines in the pattern appear wavy to you. You may notice that some of the lines are missing. (references)

Business

Companies can accomplish this by using the Green Dot System. (references)

Exporters must make sure that their German importer is licensed under the DSD Green Dot System. (references)

Major cities and businesses dot the countryside in a landscape which features no single business center. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

The internal closures may be severe when Palestinians are prohibited from using primary roads and physical barricades close off many secondary roads--or partial when most secondary roads but only some main roads are accessible to Palestinians, and roadblocks and checkpoints dot the open roads. (references)

Economic History

India

With huge orders from the DoT, the recovery of cable manufacturers looks bright. (references)

India

In India, dot matrix printers are still used in business correspondence by some industrial groups. (references)

Trade

Germany

The organization involved is called the "Duales System Deutschland," and it administers the use of the "Green Dot," a recycling symbol which is found on the packaging material of virtually all products sold in Germany. (references)

Spain

Spanish homologation requirements remain in force for computer keyboards and screens, dot matrix printers, teleprinters, medical equipment, electric typewriters, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicles, bicycles, pleasure boats, gas connectors, etc. (references)

Germany

While packaging material for products sold in Germany is not legally required to carry the Green Dot, it is almost impossible to market a product in Germany without it. Typically, the importer pays a license fee to the user of the Green Dot, dependent on the type and amount of packaging, and provides the exporter with the information necessary. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dot": a dot ted quaver ♦ arrive on the dot ♦ capacitance vs.voltage dot ♦ come on the dot ♦ dot address ♦ dot and carry one ♦ dot and go one ♦ dot diagram ♦ dot file ♦ dot gain ♦ Dot Lake ♦ dot matrix ♦ dot matrix printer ♦ dot notation ♦ dot one's i's and cross one's t's ♦ dot pitch ♦ dot plot ♦ dot printer ♦ dot product ♦ dot smb. one ♦ dot spread ♦ dot the i's ♦ floating dot ♦ Fruit dot ♦ H dot three twenty ♦ indium dot ♦ little dot ♦ Morse dot ♦ off one's dot ♦ on the dot ♦ pay on the dot ♦ polka dot ♦ quantum dot ♦ since the year dot ♦ single Image Random Dot Stereogram ♦ telegraph dot ♦ the dot over i ♦ the year dot. Additional references.

Beginning with "dot": dot-addressable, dot-and-dash, dot-and-dash code, dot-blot, dot-dash, dot-dashed, dot-density, dot-filled, dot-free, dot-fret, dot-graphics, dot-markers, dot-matrix, dot-to-dot.

Ending with "dot": polka-dot.

Containing "dot": Quantum-dot Cellular Automata.

Afrikaans

punt (period, point, spot). (various references)

Albanian

Vë Pikën, Prikë (dower, dowry, portion, Tocher), Pikëzoj (point), Pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, drop, full stop, globule, installation, leak, match point, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot, touch), Njollë E Rrumbullakët, Bëj Pika-pika (flecker). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقطة (dab, fleck, full stop, item, locus, mark, period, point, pt, speck, speckle, spot, topic), ‏نقط (dapple, fleck, mottle, pit, point, punctuate, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple, trickle), ‏شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, categorize, comprise, constitute, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way), ‏بائنة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Осейвам, Пунктирам, Зашлевявам, Точка, Слагам Точка. (various references)

Chinese 

點 (black, o'clock, point, point)), 小点. (various references)

Czech

Teèka (full stop, period, point, spot, stop, whit), Puntík (spot). (various references)

Danish

punkt (period, point, spot). (various references)

Dutch

stip (period, point, spot), spikkel (period, point, spot), punt (element, fragment, item, particle, peak, period, point, spot, summit, tip), oog (eye, germ, hole, period, point, spot). (various references)

Esperanto

punkto (period, point, spot). (various references)

Farsi 

نقطه دارکردن , نقطه (Ace, Iota, Jot, Mark, Part, Plot, Point, Prick, Speck, Speckle, Splotch, Spot, Stop), لکه (Blob, Blot, Blotch, Blur, Dirt, Freckle, Gall, Glob, Pip, Smear, Smooch, Smudge, Smut, Splotch, Spot, Stain, Taint), خال (Blotch, Freckle, Mole, Pip, Speck, Speckle, Spot, Stigma). (various references)

Finnish

piste (full stop, mark, period, point, spot). (various references)

French

Point. (various references)

German

Punkt (full stop, item, Mark, period, pinpoint, point, pt, punctilio, spot). (various references)

Greek 

κουκίδα. (various references)

Hebrew 

ּסמן ׀קו�"ות, ּ� ק�", ׀קו�"�". (various references)

Hungarian

pont (bang, chalk, coign of vantage, full stop, item, jot, just, period, pip, place, plumb, point, right, speckle, spot, stalling point). (various references)

Indonesian

titik (cusp, period), noktah, cecak (fleck, lizard, nip, spot, tweak). (various references)

Italian

punto (full stop, period, pip, pitch, point, quick, score, scratch, spot, stitch, stop, suspicion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

点点 (here and there, little by little, scattered in drops, sporadically, spot), 点々 (here and there, little by little, scattered in drops, sporadically, spot), 点 (mark, point, spot), ドイツ連邦共�'�国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, docking, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, document, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, doily, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, doo-wop, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, thud, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword), 一点 (only a little, only one, particle, point, speck), ちょび髭 (a topknot, at a glance, bits and pieces, by accident, drop by drop, easy, flickering, fluttering, frizzily, in trickles, intermittently, point, short mustache, simple, small mustache, sparsely, to be dazzled, to flicker, to flit, to litter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドット , いって�" (a turn, complete change, firmament, only a little, only one, particle, point, speck, the whole sky), て�"て�" (being passed around repeatedly, here and there, little by little, moving from place to place, rolling about, scattered in drops, sporadically, spot), て�" (biography, celebration, ceremony, comment, communication, cultivated rice field, establishment, heaven, law code, legend, life, mark, point, shop, sky, spot, store, tradition), ちょぼ (point). (various references)

Korean 

� �. (various references)

Manx

poynt (count, point), ponkey, ponk, floag (flake, jot, mote, particle), cur ponk er, breckey lesh ponkyn. (various references)

Norwegian

punkt (item, period, point, spot). (various references)

Papiamen

punto (period, point, spot). (various references)

Pig Latin

otday

Polish

punkt (period, point, spot), kropka (period, point, spot). (various references)

Portuguese

ponto (character, jot, mark, matter, period, pinpoint, pip, point, prompter, punt, speck, speckle, spot, stitch, stop, token). (various references)

Romanian

Zestre (dower, dowry, portion, settlement, trousseau), Rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), Pune Punct La, Puncta (emphasize, point, punch, punctuate, record, score, tick), Punct (article, degree, extent, full stop, item, locality, Mark, node, period, point, speck, spot, station), Presãra (asperse, dredge, interlard, intersperse, lard, punctuate, sand, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew), Picãţea (speckle), Face Un Punct Sau Mai Multe. (various references)

Russian 

Отмечать Пунктиром, Усеивать, Точка, Ставить Точки. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tufna (polka dot), tačkati (stipple), tačka (act, center, centre, clause, count, fix, full stop, item, number, period, pip, point), obeležiti tačkom. (various references)

Spanish

punto (degree, fleck, full stop, issue, period, pip, plank, point, polka dot, speck, speckle, spot, stop, the point). (various references)

Swedish

Punkt (full stop, item, period, point), Pricka (prick), Prick (bulls eye, fellow, fleck, pip, sharp, speck, tick). (various references)

Thai

ใส่จุ�", จุ�" (fleck). (various references)

Turkish

Dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), Serpiştirmek (dredge, drizzle, intersperse, spit, splash, splatter, sprinkle, strew, weave), Noktalamak (point, punctuate, stop, vocalize), Nokta Koymak (put a period to, put a stop to), Nokta (fleck, full point, full stop, macula, particular, period, pinpoint, point, post, speck, speckle, spot, stop, tittle), Geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, communicate, conduct, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), Beneklemek (dapple, fleck, flecker, mottle, speck, speckle, spot), Benek (fleck, freckle, macula, mottle, speck, speckle, splash, splodge, splotch, spot). (various references)

Turkmen 

nokat. (various references)

Ukrainian

Крапка, Крихітка, Цяточка, Ставити Крапку. (various references)

Vietnamese 

t� ng t� ng, chấm nhỏ, của h�"i môn (marriage portion), điên điên đúng giờ. (various references)

Welsh

dot (giddiness, vertigo). (various references)

gunu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dot": dotage, dotages, dotal, dotard, dotardly, dotards, dotation, dotations, dote, doted, doter, doters, dotes, doth, dotier, dotiest, doting, dotingly, dots, dotted, dottel, dottels, dotter, dotterel, dotterels, dotters, dottier, dottiest, dottily, dottiness, dottinesses, dotting, dottle, dottles, dottrel, dottrels, dotty, doty. (additional references)

Words ending with "dot": haggadot, microdot, peridot. (additional references)

Words containing "dot": acidotic, anecdota, anecdotage, anecdotages, anecdotal, anecdotalism, anecdotalisms, anecdotalist, anecdotalists, anecdotally, anecdote, anecdotes, anecdotic, anecdotical, anecdotically, anecdotist, anecdotists, antidotal, antidotally, antidote, antidoted, antidotes, antidoting, azidothymidine, azidothymidines, bedotted, condottiere, condottieri, endothecia, endothecium, endothelia, endothelial, endothelioma, endotheliomas, endotheliomata, endothelium, endotherm, endothermic, endothermies, endotherms, endothermy, endotoxic, endotoxin, endotoxins, endotracheal, endotrophic, epidote, epidotes, epidotic, gonadotrophic, gonadotrophin. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adot, daht, dakt, dawt, daxt, dazt, dbot, dbt, Dbto, ddt, deot, det, dett, dext, dhot, diot, diti, dixt, dmt, doa, dobt, doch, doct, Docta, doet, dof, doft, doh, doi, Doit, doj, Dok, dont, dooh, dooo, doot, dooth, dooty, doov, doq, dort, do't, doti, dotn, Dott, dotz, dout, dov, dowt, Dowth, dox, doy, doz, dpo, dpt, dront, drooth, drot, dso, dst, dt, dtm, du, dupt, dut, duth, dutp, dwo, dwt, Dyott, dzo, edot, idot, Ndoto, odh, odit, odot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tod.

-1 letter: do, od, to.

+1 letter: dato, doat, doit, dolt, dost, dote, doth, dots, doty, toad, tods, tody, toed, told, trod.

+2 letters: adopt, coted, datos, datto, depot, detox, dhoti, dicot, ditto, divot, doats, doest, doeth, doits, dolts, donut, dorty, dotal, doted, doter, dotes, dotty, doubt, droit, dropt, godet, idiot, noted, octad, odist, ootid, opted, outdo, outed, stood, tardo, toads, toady, today, toddy, toked, toled, tondi, tondo, toned, toped, toted, towed, toyed, trode, voted.

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