Definitions for DOT

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DOT dot

Spelling: [dot]

IPA: /dɒt/

Dot is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in DOT (dot).

Definitions for DOT

noun

1. a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
2. a minute or small spot on a surface; speck:
3. anything relatively small or specklike.
4. a small specimen, section, amount, or portion:
5. a period, especially as used when pronouncing an Internet address.
6. Music. a point placed after a note or rest, to indicate that the duration of the note or rest is to be increased one half. A double dot further increases the duration by one half the value of the single dot. a point placed under or over a note to indicate that it is to be played staccato.
7. Telegraphy. a signal of shorter duration than a dash, used in groups along with groups of dashes and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.
8. Printing. an individual element in a halftone reproduction.
9. dowry (def 1).
10. a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.

Idioms

1. dot one's i's and cross one's t's, to be meticulous or precise, even to the smallest detail.
2. on the dot, Informal. precisely; exactly at the time specified:
3. the year dot, British Informal. very long ago.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with or as if with a dot or dots.
2. to stud or diversify with or as if with dots:
3. to form or cover with dots:
4. Cookery. to sprinkle with dabs of butter, margarine, or the like:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a dot or dots.

Origin of DOT

before 1000; perhaps to be identified with Old English dott head of a boil, though not attested in Middle English; cf. dottle, dit, derivative of Old English dyttan

Examples for DOT

A dot on the desert expanded into a pit, a tower, and some small buildings.

“I didn't said dot I vould be a goot sby, Dick,” responded Fritz.

Griffin mined the portfolios of four artists to create the vast collection of images that dot the book.

A circle with a dot may be “3” on the keypad, while an arrow could be “9.”

Lo, at last, there was a dot on the clouds, And—at last and at last— —God—the sky was filled with armies.

To send suggestions for future editions, email david (dot) sessions (at) thedailybeast (dot) com.

Then after 9/11 and the dot Com Crash, the money for a lot of the tech consulting she was doing in New York City dried up.

If ever she was suited to a dot, it was jest then 'n' there.

It was almost forty minutes to the dot when Hilary's head emerged from the cleft.

That question is being raised again in light of previously unseen chat logs uncovered by Motherboard and the Daily dot.