dot1

[dot] /dɒt/
noun
1.
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
2.
a minute or small spot on a surface; speck:
There were dots of soot on the window sill.
3.
anything relatively small or specklike.
4.
a small specimen, section, amount, or portion:
a dot of butter.
5.
a period, especially as used when pronouncing an Internet address.
6.
Music.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
verb (used with object), dotted, dotting.
9.
to mark with or as if with a dot or dots.
10.
to stud or diversify with or as if with dots:
Trees dot the landscape.
11.
to form or cover with dots:
He dotted a line across the page.
12.
Cookery. to sprinkle with dabs of butter, margarine, or the like:
Dot the filling with butter.
verb (used without object), dotted, dotting.
13.
to make a dot or dots.
Idioms
14.
dot one's i's and cross one's t's, to be meticulous or precise, even to the smallest detail.
15.
on the dot, Informal. precisely; exactly at the time specified:
The guests arrived at eight o'clock on the dot.
16.
the year dot, British Informal. very long ago.
Origin
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 to stop up (probably derivative of dott); cognate with Old High German tutta nipple
Related forms
dotlike, adjective
dotter, noun

dot2

[dot, dawt] /dɒt, dɔt/
noun, Civil Law.
1.
dowry (def 1).
Origin
1850-55; < French < Latin dōtem, accusative of dōs dowry, akin to dāre to give
Related forms
dotal
[doht-l] /ˈdoʊt l/ (Show IPA), adjective

Dot

[dot] /dɒt/
noun
1.
a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.

DOT

1.
Department of Transportation.
2.
Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
Examples from the web for dot
  • dot pitch the distance between the centers of two adjacent pixels.
  • dot pitch, describes the distance between pixels of the same color in millimeters.
  • Some examples of electron dot notation are shown in the following figure.
  • It also allows marking a position more accurately than a large dot.
British Dictionary definitions for dot

dot1

/dɒt/
noun
1.
a small round mark made with or as with a pen, etc; spot; speck; point
2.
anything resembling a dot; a small amount: a dot of paint
3.
the mark (˙) that appears above the main stem of the letters i, j
4.
(music)
  1. the symbol (·) placed after a note or rest to increase its time value by half
  2. this symbol written above or below a note indicating that it must be played or sung staccato
5.
(maths, logic)
  1. the symbol (.) indicating multiplication or logical conjunction
  2. a decimal point
6.
the symbol (·) used, in combination with the symbol for dash (–), in the written representation of Morse and other telegraphic codes Compare dit
7.
(informal) the year dot, as long ago as can be remembered
8.
on the dot, at exactly the arranged time
verb dots, dotting, dotted
9.
(transitive) to mark or form with a dot: to dot a letter, a dotted crotchet
10.
(transitive) to scatter or intersperse (with dots or something resembling dots): bushes dotting the plain
11.
(intransitive) to make a dot or dots
12.
dot one's i's and cross one's t's, to pay meticulous attention to detail
Derived Forms
dotter, noun
Word Origin
Old English dott head of a boil; related to Old High German tutta nipple, Norwegian dott, Dutch dott lump

dot2

/dɒt/
noun
1.
(civil law) a woman's dowry
Derived Forms
dotal (ˈdəʊtəl) adjective
Word Origin
C19: from French, from Latin dōs; related to dōtāre to endow, dāre to give
Word Origin and History for dot
n.

Old English dott "speck, head of a boil," perhaps related to Norwegian dot "lump, small knot," Dutch dot "knot, small bunch, wisp," Old High German tutta "nipple;" ultimate origin unclear.

Known from a single source c.1000; the word reappeared with modern meaning "mark" c.1530; not common until 18c. Morse telegraph sense is from 1838. On the dot "punctual" is 1909, in reference to a clock dial face. Dot-matrix first attested 1975.

v.

1740, from dot (n.). Related: Dotted; dotting.

dot in Medicine

dot 1 (dŏt)
n.
A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot.

dot in Science
dot
  (dŏt)   

  1. A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8. It is used to indicate the dot product of vectors, for example A · B.

  2. A period, as used as in URLs and e-mail addresses, to separate strings of words, as in www.hmco.com.


dot in Technology

character
decimal point.
See also dot file, dot notation.
(1995-03-14)

Related Abbreviations for dot

DOT

  1. death on [the operating] table
  2. Department of Transportation
Idioms and Phrases with dot

dot

In addition to the idiom beginning with
dot
also see: