26984 words

dot

14 definitions • 22 examples
1
a very small round mark:

Examples:

The full stop at the end of this sentence is a dot.
Her skirt was blue with white dots.
2
the spoken form of a full stop in an internet or email address, or some computer files:

Examples:

"What's the web address?" "www dot cambridge dot org".
3
the short sounds or short flashes of light used with dashes when sending messages in Morse (code)
4
a dot written after a musical note, showing that its time value is increased by half :

Examples:

The dot after the minim shows that it has three beats.
5
to put a small round mark above or next to a letter or word:

Examples:

Your handwriting is hard to read because you don't dot your i's.
She dotted all the i's with little hearts.
Sometimes a vowel is dotted with two dots, like an umlaut, to avoid it being read as part of a diphthong.
6
to put a small round mark next to a musical note to show that it should last for half as long again:

Examples:

I was obsessed with the compositions I was trying to write, obscure recordings, the proper way to dot a semiquaver.
Printed editions of these works from the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth are inconsistently dotted.
There are three dotted crotchet beats, or nine quavers in each bar.
7
to spread many similar things across an area, or to be spread across an area:

Examples:

be dotted around something Remnants of ancient civilizations are dotted around the globe.
We have offices dotted around the region.
be dotted with something The area is dotted with beautiful churches.
I have online friends dotted all over the planet.
8
to put small amounts of a substance in many different places across a surface:

Examples:

dot something with something Dot the fish with butter and season it with salt and pepper.
I dot eye cream around my eyes then gently blend it in.
9
a very small, round mark:

Examples:

The ducks were black dots in the distance.
10
Dot (symbol .) is also used in an Internet address to separate its parts:

Examples:

Go to w w w dot cambridge dot org.
11
When an area is dotted with things, it has many of them in different places:

Examples:

12
a very small round mark that is used in an internet address or email address to separate its parts:

Examples:

Dot gov sites are reserved for governmental offices.
13
exactly at the stated or expected time
14
to understand the relationship between different ideas, facts, or experiences:

Examples:

My experiment has revealed how we fail to connect the dots between the way we live today and the needs of tomorrow.

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