dot
点,点点,点子,点缀
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Definitions
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- : 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 window sill.
- : 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. 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.a point placed under or over a note to indicate that it is to be played staccato.
- : 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.
- : Printing. an individual element in a halftone reproduction.
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dot·ted, dot·ting.
- : to mark with or as if with a dot or dots.
- : to stud or diversify with or as if with dots: Trees dot the landscape.
- : to form or cover with dots: He dotted a line across the page.
- : Cooking. to sprinkle with dabs of butter, margarine, or the like: Dot the filling with butter.
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dot·ted, dot·ting.
- : to make a dot or dots.
Phrases
- dot the i's and cross the t's
- on the dot
- sign on the dotted line
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
You could be, but chances are, they aren’t watching your little green dot at all times.
Think of the colors assigned to the dots as coordinates which situate the dice in space.
The process works a little like “connect the dots,” in which the software learns how to accurately fill in the missing pieces of information between the data points generated by the scanner.
Some also offer a chance to explore deeper by switching tabs or hovering on elements like dots or lines.
Hover over each of the dots to see how the map shook out in that simulation.
Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.
Above the notes of praise is a small photo of Guerin wearing a polka dot tie and pocket square, staring at you like a sociopath.
It was there, in small type, hosted on some dot-edu domain, looking the way websites did in the mid-1990s.
Picasso, with his polka-dot shirt and clashing tie attempted an air of bravado, but lost confidence by the minute.
He drew a series of concentric circles on a page with a single dot—Robert Moses—in the center.
Though Caroline only brought with her a dot of forty thousand francs, she stood for what was better still, immense possibilities.
A dot or two, sometimes only one, sometimes as many as five, are thrown in as a rough way of indicating the features.
Typical "segmenters" present a ring of rounded segments or spores, each with a small, dot-like chromatin mass.
At three thousand yards a man appears as a mere dot, which is not readily distinguishable.
All the way the scenery is pretty, but with no very striking features, and villas dot the roadside for a considerable distance.