Meaning of dot | Babel Free

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

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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