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dot
n. spot, speck
 
v. mark with a dot or dots

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Dot
Dot, DoT or DOT may refer to:

Typography
  • Full stop, also called period in American English, used as a sentence terminator and as a decimal mark (decimal point) in numerals ( . )
  • Interpunct (·), between words, also called middle dot or centered dot. Homoglyphic characters include:
    • dot operator, used as notation for multiplication ( )
    • word separator middle dot, used in Avestan, Samaritan ( )
    • Georgian comma
    • Greek άνω τελεία, i.e. "high stop", the equivalent of the semicolon
    • Katakana middle dot ( )
    • Separator for double 'l' sound in written Catalan (l·l)
Dot (diacritic), above or below a character (e.g. , , , , , etc.) (   )
    • Hebrew shin and sin dots ( ) as well as upper and lower dots (   )
    • Syriac feminine dot ( )
    • Devanagari high spacing dot ( )
    • Myanmar dot below ( )
    • Canadian syllabics final middle dot ( )
    • Canadian syllabics final raised dot ( )
    • Vedic tone dot below ( )
    • One dot leader, also used as Armenian semi-colon ( )
    • The dot above, used to denote time derivation, in Newtonian notation
    • There are also double, triple, quadruple and even quintuple diacritic dots
  • Three horizontal dots "…" or "...", an ellipsis
  • The Gregg shorthand system utilizes a dot in several ways, such as to represent a or an and the letter h

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Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science and technology that are submitted and evaluated by its users. Each story has a comments section attached to it.

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DoT

Noun
1. the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
(synonym) Department of Transportation, Transportation
(hypernym) executive department
(part-meronym) Federal Aviation Agency, FAA

 
dot

Noun
1. a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots"
(synonym) point
(hypernym) disk, disc, saucer
2. the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
(synonym) dit
(hypernym) telegraphic signal, radiotelegraphic signal
(part-holonym) Morse, Morse code, international Morse code
3. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
(synonym) acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen
(hypernym) lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD

Verb
1. scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights"
(synonym) stud, constellate
(hypernym) cover, extend
(derivation) point
2. distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
(synonym) scatter, sprinkle, dust, disperse
(hypernym) discharge
(hyponym) spray
3. make a dot or dots
(hypernym) write
(derivation) point
4. mark with a dot; "dot your `i's"
(hypernym) mark
(derivation) point


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DOT
operational defense of the territory
 
dot
nf. dowry, dower, portion

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dot (de)
n. knot, tuft