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- Dictionarydot/dɒt/
noun
- 1. a small round mark or spot: "a symbol depicted in coloured dots"
verb
- 1. mark with a small spot or spots: "wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt" Similar
- 2. hit (someone): informal British "‘You want to dot him one,’ he said"
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DOT definition: 1. a very small round mark: 2. the spoken form of a full stop in an internet or email address, or…. Learn more.
1. : a small spot : speck entry 1. 2. : a small round mark: such as. a (1) : a small point made with a pointed instrument. a dot on the chart marked the ship's position. (2) : a small round mark used in orthography or punctuation. put a dot over the i. b. : a centered point used as a multiplication sign (as in 6 · 5 = 30) c (1)
noun. a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen. a minute or small spot on a surface; speck: There were dots of soot on the windowsill. anything relatively small or specklike. a small specimen, section, amount, or portion: a dot of butter. a period, especially as used when pronouncing an internet address. Music.
1. countable noun A2. A dot is a very small round mark, for example one that is used as the top part of the letter 'i', as a full stop, or as a decimal point. 2. countable noun B2. You can refer to something that you can see in the distance and that looks like a small round mark as a dot.
1. a. A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot. b. Such a mark used in orthography, as above an i. c. 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. 2. A tiny amount. 3.
DOT definition: 1. a small, round mark or spot: 2. the spoken form of '.' in an internet address: 3. at that…. Learn more.
noun. a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen. a minute or small spot on a surface; speck: There were dots of soot on the windowsill. anything relatively small or specklike. a small specimen, section, amount, or portion: a dot of butter. a period, especially as used when pronouncing an internet address. Music.
dot a small round mark on something, especially one that is printed: The letters ‘i’ and ‘j’ have dots over them. The island is a small green dot on the map. mark an area of colour that is easy to notice on the body of a person or animal: The horse had a white mark on its head.
dot. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English dot1 /dɒt $ dɑːt/ S2 noun [ countable] 1 a small round mark or spot a pattern of dots 2 → on the dot 3 something that looks like a small spot because it is so far away The plane was just a dot on the horizon. 4 a short sound or flash of light used when sending messages by Morse code → ...
A dot is a round speck or spot. A first grade teacher might remind his students to put dots on their i s and j s. A period, a little circle or point, is a dot. Another kind is a polka dot, which might decorate your favorite pair of shorts or the curtains in your room.
