jot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Latin iōta (“the letter iota of the Ancient Greek alphabet”), from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “ninth letter of the Ancient Greek alphabet; (figurative) very small part of writing, jot”), from Phoenician 𐤉 (y‬, “tenth letter of the Phoenician abjad, yodh”). Doublet of iota and yodh.
Etymology 1, noun sense 3 (“brief and hurriedly written note”) is derived from the verb.
The verb is probably borrowed from Scots jot, from English jot (noun): see above.
Inflected forms:
form: jots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.
pos: noun
examples: This bond doth giue thee here no iote of blood, / The vvords expreſly are a pound of fleſh: / Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of fleſh, / But in the cutting of it, if thou doſt ſhed / One drop of Chriſtian blood, thy lands and goods / Are by the lavves of Venice, confiſcate / Vnto the State of Venice.
For verily I ſay vnto you, Till heauen and earth paſſe, one iote or one tittle, ſhall in no wiſe paſſe from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Of old, men said, "Sin not; / By every line and jot / Ye shall abide; man's heart is false and vile."
gloss: A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: He didn’t care a jot for his work.
Sir, the People muſt haue their Voiyes, / Neyther vvill they bate / One iot of Ceremonie.
After this I ſpent a great deal of Time and Pains to make me an Umbrella; I vvas indeed in great vvant of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had ſeen them made in the Braſils, vvhere they are very uſeful in the great Heats vvhich are there: And I felt the Heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the Equinox; […]
[T]hough Richard [III] vvas purſued and killed as a uſurper, the Solomon that ſucceeded him [Henry VII of England], vvas not a jot leſs a tyrant.
"If they had uncles enough to fill all Cheapside," cried Bingley, "it would not make them one jot less agreeable."
For mark you, Tavy, the artist’s work is to show us ourselves as we really are. Our minds are nothing but this knowledge of ourselves; and he who adds a jot to such knowledge creates new mind as surely as any woman creates new men.
What does that matter? Arsenic would put poor Emily out of the way just as well as strychnine. If I'm convinced he did it, it doesn't matter a jot to me how he did it.
Up to that point, Tottenham had not had a shot on target. They were not to have another. It didn't matter a jot.
gloss: A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
examples: So vveake my povvres, ſo ſore my vvounds appeare, / that vvonder is hovv I ſhould liue a iot, / ſeeing my hart through launched euery vvhere / vvith thouſand arrovves, vvhich your eies haue ſhot: […]
No faith, Ile not ſtay a iot longer: […]
Making my Death familiar to my Tongue / Digs not my Grave one Jot before the Date.
gloss: A brief and hurriedly written note.
pos: noun
examples: "Lover," you say; "how beautiful that is, / That little word!” […] / Yes, it is beautiful. I have marked it long, / Long in my dusty head its jot secreted, / Yet my heart never knew this word a song / Till in the night softly by you repeated.
gloss: Chiefly followed by down: to write (something) quickly; to make a brief note of (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tell me your order so I can jot it down.
He mentions as certain the falsehood of a number of the assertions concerning his usage, the unhealthy state of the island, and so forth. I have jotted down his evidence elsewhere.
Related words: tittle
Derived words: jot and tittle
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