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1   [dot] noun, verb, dot·ted, dot·ting.
noun
1.
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
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a minute or small spot on a surface; speck: There were dots of soot on the window sill.
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anything relatively small or specklike.
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a small specimen, section, amount, or portion: a dot of butter.
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a period, especially as used when pronouncing an Internet address.
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Music.
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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.
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a point placed under or over a note to indicate that it is to be played staccato.
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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.
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Printing. an individual element in a halftone reproduction.
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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.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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verb (used without object)
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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.
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on the dot, Informal. precisely; exactly at the time specified: The guests arrived at eight o'clock on the dot.
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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; compare dottle, dit, derivative of Old English dyttan to stop up (probably derivative of dott); cognate with Old High German tutta nipple

Related forms
dot·like, adjective
dot·ter, noun
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dot
O.E. dott "speck, head of a boil," perhaps related to tit "nipple." 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
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1975.
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Medical Dictionary

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

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dot   (dŏt)  Pronunciation Key 

  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.


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