Meaning

11 senses
  1. A small, round spot.

    a dot of colour

    a very small circular shape

  2. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

    The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]

  3. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

  4. 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.

  5. 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%.

  6. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

    the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code

  7. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

    a dot of a child

  8. (informal)A dot ball.

  9. (Multicultural London English)Buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

  10. (Multicultural London English, rare, slang)Confinement facility

  11. (obsolete)A lump or clot.

Examples

87 sentences
  1. Please cut along the dotted line.

    ruРазрежьте, пожалуйста, по пунктирной линии.

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  2. Please sign on the dotted line.

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  3. Mary was wearing a polka dot dress.

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  4. Her dress is blue with white polka dots.

    ruПлатье у неё синее в белый горошек.

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  5. Be at the station at eleven on the dot.

    ruБудь на вокзале ровно в одиннадцать.

    deSei Punkt elf am Bahnhof.

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Origin

From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West G

From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).

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Forms

plural: dots
Singulardot
Pluraldots

regular

Synonyms

111 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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