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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
dot·ted       [dot-id] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.marked with a dot or dots.
2.consisting or constructed of dots.
3.having objects scattered or placed in a random manner: a landscape dotted with small houses.
[Origin: 1765–75; dot1 + -ed3]
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dot1       [dot] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, dot·ted, dot·ting.
–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, esp. as used when pronouncing an Internet address.
6.Music.
a.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.
b.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)
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)
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: bef. 1000; perh. to be identified with OE dott head of a boil, though not attested in ME; cf. dottle, dit, deriv. of OE dyttan to stop up (prob. deriv. of dott); c. OHG tutta nipple]

—Related forms
dotlike, adjective
dotter, noun
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
dot 1       (dŏt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot.
    2. Such a mark used in orthography, as above an i.
    3. The basic unit of composition for an image produced by a device that prints text or graphics on paper: a resolution of 900 dots per inch.
    4. A decimal point.
    5. A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8.
  2. A tiny amount.
  3. In Morse and similar codes, the short sound or signal used in combination with the dash and silent intervals to represent letters, numbers, or punctuation.
  4. Mathematics
    1. A decimal point.
    2. A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8.
  5. Music A mark after a note indicating an increase in time value by half.
  6. Computer Science A period, as used as in URLs and e-mail addresses, to separate strings of words, as in www.hmco.com.

v.   dot·ted, dot·ting, dots

v.   tr.
  1. To mark with a dot.
  2. To form or make with dots.
  3. To cover with or as if with dots: "Campfires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night" (Stephen Crane).

v.   intr.
To make a dot.


[Middle English *dot, from Old English dott, head of a boil.]

dot'ter n.
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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
dotted

adjective
1. having a pattern of dots 
2. having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line" [syn: dashed] 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Dotted

Dot"ted\, a. Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.

Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes.

Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.

Note: Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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