dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏt
ipa: /dɒt/
enpr: dät
ipa: /dɑt/
ipa: /dɔt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: dots
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”).
Senses: examples: text: a dot of colour
text: 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.
ref: 1845, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems, lines 269–272:
text: THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO
A VERY SMALL DOT
IN
A VERY BIG UNIVERSE
ref: 1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, page v:
synonyms: speck
spot
glosses: A small, round spot.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: full stop
word: period
word: point
glosses: A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
glosses: A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: decimal point
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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%.
examples: text: The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.
ref: 1838, William Hamilton, “Report on Prof. Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute:
synonyms: dit
glosses: One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
synonyms: blob
glosses: A lump or clot.
examples: a dot of a child
synonyms: word: dab
english: amount
translation: amount
word: ounce
word: dicky-bird
english: thing
translation: thing
word: itsy-bitsy
word: minuity
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dot ball.
examples: text: 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
ref: 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:
synonyms: shotty
glosses: buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
examples: text: We got rambos, glocks and dots,
It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block
ref: 2018 September 9, “Hide N Seek”, in C1 (lyrics), Tulse Hill Slums, from 1:06–1:09:
synonyms: bruckback
broom
scattergun
shotty
glosses: Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
examples: text: 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
ref: 2024 March 17, “Scummy” (0:31 from the start), Trizz #Birmingham (lyrics):
synonyms: slammer
can
bin
glosses: confinement facility
Hyponyms: centered dot
centred dot
glue dot
middle dot
polka dot
space dot
Derived terms: antidot
biodot
chroma dot
connect the dots
day dot
dot and carry
dot-and-carry-one
dot-and-go-one
dot blot
dot-bomb
dot bomb
dot-carnage
dot-com
dotcom
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
little red dot
microdot
middot
mid-dot
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