dot

Definitions

1. A small, round spot.
2. A dowry.
   Louisiana, US
3. Initialism of Department of Transportation or Department of Transport.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. Initialism of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
5. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
6. Alternative spelling of DOT.
   alt-of, alternative
7. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
8. Initialism of Department of Tourism.
   Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9. Initialism of damage over time.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
10. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
11. A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
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. 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%.
14. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
15. A lump or clot.
    obsolete
16. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
17. A dot ball.
    informal
18. buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
    Multicultural-London-English
19. Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
    Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
20. confinement facility
    Multicultural-London-English, rare, slang

Equivalents

56 more languages

العربيةالنّقطةدوتنقطة

Azərbaycan dilinöqtə

Беларускаякропка

Българскиточка

বাংলাবিন্দু

Bosanskibodnokatpunkttačkatitočkaтачка+ 4 more

Catalàpunt

Češtinaboddesetinná čárkapunktpuntíktečka+ 2 more

Danskprikpunktpunktum

Ελληνικάβραχύστιγμήτελείαυποδιαστολή+ 1 more

Esperantopunkto

Eestipunkttapp

Suomidesimaalipilkkudesimaalipistepilkkupistetäplä+ 2 more

Gaeilgeponcponc séimhithe

Galegopunto

Hausaɗigo

עבריתנקודה

हिन्दीनुक़्ताबिंदुसुन्न

Hrvatskibodnokatpunkttačkatitočkaтачка+ 4 more

Magyarponttitizedesvessző

Հայերենկետ

Bahasa Indonesianoktahtitik

Íslenskadepillpunktur

Italianopuntinopunto

日本語とっと丶点終止符+ 1 more

ქართულიწერტილი

Қазақ тілінүкте

ភាសាខ្មែរចំណុចតំណក់ពិន្ទុ

한국어소수점온점점

Kurdîdotpistetitîtitik+ 2 more

ລາວຈຸດ

Lietuviųtaškas

Latviešupunkts

Македонскизапиркаточка

Монголцэг

मराठीटिकलीटिंब

မြန်မာဗိန္ဒုအစက်

NederlandsDoortjepunt

PolskicętkowaćDosiakropkaprzecinekpunkt+ 2 more

پښتونقطه

Portuguêspingoponto

Românăpunct

Русскийдотзапятаяточка

Slovenčinabodka

SlovenščinaPika

Shqippikë

Српскиbodnokatpunkttačkatitočkaтачка+ 4 more

Svenskafläckprickpunkt

Тоҷикӣнуқта

ไทยจุดพินทุแต้ม

Türkmençenokat

Türkçebeneknokta

Українськакрапкаточкацятка

اردونقطہ

O'zbekchanuqta

Tiếng Việtchâmdấu chấmdấu nặng

Examples

“a dot of colour”

“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.”

“THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO A VERY SMALL DOT IN A VERY BIG UNIVERSE”

“The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.”

“a dot of a child”

“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.”

“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”

“We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block⟳”

“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”

“"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."”

“As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.”

“Alaska DOT crews returned to Igiugig on Tuesday to repair⟳ the lights, which are now back in service, Dapcevich said.”

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