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Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dŏt, IPA^(key): /dɒt/
• (US) enPR: dät, IPA^(key): /dɑt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

dot (plural dots)

1. A small, round spot.

   a dot of colour

   • 1845, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems‎, lines 269–272:

     Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away.

   • 1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China‎, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, page v:

     THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO
     A VERY SMALL DOT
     IN
     A VERY BIG UNIVERSE

2. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
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. (mathematics) 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. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
   • 1838, William Hamilton, “Report on Prof. Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute‎:

     The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.

6. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
7. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

   a dot of a child

8. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
   • 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport‎, London:

     That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.

9. (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
   • 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:

     Can’t miss no dots
     Every shot let caused I’m hittin
     Used to bag it up in the toilet
     My mumsie thought I was shittin

10. (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
    • 2018 September 9, “Hide N Seek”, in C1 (lyrics), Tulse Hill Slums‎, from 1:06–1:09:

      We got rambos, glocks and dots,
      It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block

11. (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility

    Synonyms: slammer, can, bin; see also Thesaurus:prison

    • 2024 March 17, “Scummy” (0:31 from the start), Trizz #Birmingham (lyrics):

      The feds want me in the dot
      I got luck for selling them drugs
      But when I come out I’m still building a spot

Synonyms

• (small spot): speck, spot
• (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation): full stop (British), period (US), point
• (as a diacritic): tittle (over the letters i and j)
• (mathematics, in a decimal): decimal point
• (in Morse code): dit

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dot (third-person singular simple present dots, present participle dotting, simple past and past participle dotted)

1. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

   His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:

     Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

2. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

   Dot your is and cross your ts.

3. To mark by means of dots or small spots.

   to dot a line

4. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

   to dot a landscape with cottages

   • 2023 April 14, Rosyln Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times‎:

     Wooden crosses, some drunkenly askew, dot a darkened stage at the start of Vuyani Dance Theater’s “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero.” There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs.

5. (colloquial) To punch (a person).
   • 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 332:

     `Which means,' said John, `that someone dotted him a good one, shoved him into the bathtub, ran the water, then opened his mouth and poured champagne into it until he drowned.'

Synonyms

• stipple

Derived terms

Translations

Preposition

dot

1. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.

   The work is equal to F dot Δx.

Coordinate terms

• cross
• ·

Translations

Etymology 2

From French dot.

Alternative forms

• dote

Noun

dot (plural dots)

1. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 53”, in The Moon and Sixpence, : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers , →OCLC:

     "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
     "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot."

   • 1927, Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman:

     As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.

Related terms

• dotal
• dotation

Anagrams

• DTO, ODT, OTD, TOD, Tod, tod

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dhētim, accusative of Proto-Indo-European *dhē (“to put”). Alternatively it might represent a univerbation of do +‎ të; Gustav Meyer opines for a Latin provenance, from in toto.

Particle

dot

1. Expresses impossibility, thus it corresponds to "Can't" in negative sentences and "can" in interrogative ones.

   Nuk e bëj dot.

   I can't do it.

   A vjen dot?

   Can you come?

Related terms

• do
• të

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Etymology 1

From Latin dōte.

Noun

dot m (plural dots)

1. dowry
2. gift, talent

   Synonym: do

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French hadot. Cognate with English haddock.

Noun

dot m (plural dots)

1. Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus)

   Synonyms: pàmpol rascàs, gerna

Further reading

• “dot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

A secondary form of dodde (“long, soft raceme, as of a cattail plant”), a word of uncertain but perhaps gibberish origin related to German Dutte, düttenkolb (“bulrush”), themselves linked to words like Zitze, Titte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔt/

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• Hyphenation: dot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

dot m or f (plural dotten, diminutive dotje n)

1. a tuft, a bunch, a clump
2. (informal) a lot, a large amount

   een dot geld - a lot of money

3. cutie, something small and adorable
4. darling, sweetie (almost always used in its diminutive form - dotje)
5. a swab

Synonyms

• (cutie): kleintje
• (darling): schatje, liefje

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dot (16th c.), a borrowing from Latin dos. Doublet of dose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Homophones: dote, dotent, dotes, dots

Noun

dot f (plural dots)

1. dowry, marriage portion

Derived terms

• coureur de dot

Related terms

• doter

Further reading

• “dot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Irish

Alternative forms

• dod

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɔt̪ˠ/

Contraction

dot (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).

   An bhfuilir dílis dot chéile?

   Are you faithful to your spouse?

Related terms

Klamath-Modoc

Alternative forms

• tút (Gatschet)

Noun

dot

1. tooth

References

• Barker, M. A. R. (1963). Klamath Dictionary. University of California Publications in Linguistics 31. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• Gatschet, Samuel S. (1890). The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon. Volume II, Part II. United States Government Printing Office.

Latvian

Etymology

From earlier *duoti, *duotie, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dṓˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti (“to give”). The present tense forms are new formations, replacing the old athematic forms (still attested in dialectal forms like domu (“I give”) instead of dodu). The past tense forms are from earlier *davu (cf. Lithuanian daviaũ); the e was extended from the past active participle form devis (< *devens < *de-d-wens).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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Verb

dot (transitive, no conjugation, present dodu, dod, dod, past devu)

1. to give (to hand to someone, so that s/he can have it)

   dot lakatu mātei ― to give a scarf to (one's) mother

   dot ziedus ― to give flowers

   dot draugam grāmatu izlasīt ― to give a friend a book to read

   dot atslēgas ― to give the keys

   dot kasierei naudu ― to give money to the cashier

   dot bērnam maizes šķēli ― to give a child a slice of bread

   dot govīm sienu ― to give hay to the cows

   dot sienu ― to give hay (to throw it with a fork)

   dot mēslojumu ― to give fertilizer, to fertilize (land, soil)

   dot ēst ― to give food (lit. to give to eat)

   dot bērnam krūti ― to give (one's) breast to a child (= to nurse, breastfeed a child)

   dot roku ― to give (one's) hand (= to wave, to greet someone, to shake hands, to hold hands)

   dot maizi ― to give bread; to provide food (e.g., in old age)

   bet kas tad tev vecumā dos maizi? ― but who will give you bread (= provide you with food) in (your) old age?

2. to give, to provide (to allow the use of a material object, to free a place for someone else's use)

   dot autobusu ekskursijai ― to give a bus to the excursion

   dot naktsmājas tūristiem ― to provide accommodation for tourists

   dot asinis, kaula smadzenes ― to give (= donate) blood, bone marrow

   dot trolejbusā vietu vecākiem pasažieriem ― to give one's place on the trolley to older passengers

   kā es vēlāk uzzināju, mājas pagaidām dod tikai ģimenēm ― as I later found out, for the time being they are giving houses only to families

3. (colloquial) to give in marriage

   krievi, krievi, leiši, leiši... visi man draugi, radi; krievam devu savu māsiņu, pats es ņēmu leišu meitu ― Russians, Russians, Lithuanians, Lithuanians... all friends, relatives to me; to a Russian I gave my little sister, (and) I myself took a Lithuanian girl (as wife)

4. (colloquial) to allow (e.g., a son or daughter) to work, to be employed

   dot dēlu par ganu ― to give a son as a shepherd (= to allow a son to work as a shepherd)

5. to give, to grant, to procure, to secure (a state, circumstances)

   dot darbu ― to give work

   dot atvaļinājumu ― to give a holiday

   dot patstāvību, brīvību ― to give autonomy, freedom

   dot priekšroku ― to give (one's) preference (to...)

   dot iespēju ― to give the opportunity, the possibility (of...)

   man bija dots mēness, lai atpūstos pēc ziemas darbiem ― a month was given to me, so that I would rest after winter's work

6. to give, to dedicate, to donate, to provide (at birth)

   tev, meistar, dodam mīlestību savu ― to you, master, we give our love

   arī tas taisnums māksla, to iemācīties nevarēja, tas cilvēkam vai nu dots no paša sākuma, vai palika visu mūžu nesasniegts ― also that straightness (is) art, one can't learn it, either it is given from the very beginning (= from birth), or it remains unobtained (for one's) whole life

7. (dated sense) to allow, to permit

   stāstu mātei, ka Dāvis man dod braukt patstāvīgi ― I tell (my) mother that Dāvis gave (= allowed) me to drive by myself

8. to give (to express orally or in writing)

   dot rīkojumu ― to give instructions, orders

   dot pavēli ― to give a command, an order

   dot norādījumus ― to give instructions

   dot atļauju ― to give permission

   dot solījumu ― to make (lit. give) a promise

   dot zvērestu ― to take (lit. give) an oath

   dot ieteikumu ― to give a recommendation

   dot parakstu ― to give (one's) signature (= to sign)

   dot liecību ― to bear, give testimony

   dot norēķinu ― to give a report (of one's actions)

   dot vārdu, nosaukumu ― to give a name, a denomination

   dot ziņu ― to give knowledge of (= to report; to announce)

9. to give (to add to a text)

   dot vārdnīcai stilistiskās norādes ― to give a dictionary stylistic references

   piezīmes dotas parindēs ― comments (are) given in parentheses

10. (mathematics, usually in the past passive participle form dots) to be given, to be known from the start

    dotais lielums ― given quantity

    uzdevums bija kvadrāta un taisnstūra laukuma aprēķināšana, ja dots perimetrs ― the task was the calculation of the square and rectangular area, if the perimeter is given

    kopu uzskata par dotu, ja ir dots pilns tās elementu saraksts ― a set is considered to be given if a full list of its elements is given

11. (of physical or mental states) to give (to create, to inspire, to generate)

    dot drosmi cīņā ― to give courage in (= to) fight

    dot možumu ― to give liveliness

    dot prieku ― to give joy, pleasure

    dot mieru ― to give peace (of mind)

    dot iemeslu ― to give (= create, be) a reason

    cerība viņus sildīja un deva jaunus spēkus cīņai par savu dzīvību ― hope warmed them and gave (them) new strength for the fight for their lives

    neesmu taču ne mazāko iemeslu devis, kas tai būtu varējis modināt cerības ― I haven't given even the slightest reason to arouse expectations, hopes

12. (of results, effects) to give, to provide, to be the cause (of something)

    eksperiments dod gaidītos resultātus ― the experiment is giving the expected results

    pētījums dod jaunas atziņas ― the study gives new insights

    dot ēnu, paēnu ― to give (= create) shade, a shadow (e.g., a tree)

    ko tas (mums) dod? ― what does this give (us)? (= what good is there in it for us?)

13. (of material objects, values; also of spiritual or cultural values) to give, to produce, to create

    dot produkciju virs plāna ― to give production (= to produce) above the plan

    govs dod daudz piena ― (this) cow gives a lot of milk

    jaunā aitu šķirne dod augstvērtīgu vilnu ― the new breed of sheep gives high-quality wool

    augļu koki pēc dziļām ziemām dažkārt dod bagātīgas augļu ražas ― fruit trees after deep winters sometimes give abundant fruit harvests

    elektriskais motors dos baltu, spodru gaismu ― the electric motor will give white, bright light

    pēdējā laikā gleznotājs devis vairākas vērtīgas gleznas ― in recent times, (this) painter has given (= produced) many valuable paintings

    visvairāk latviešu literārā valodā iesakņojušos jaunvārdu devuši J. Alunāns, Kronvaldu Atis, Rainis un A. Upīts ― most of the new words that struck root in the Latvian literary languages (were) given (by) J. Alunāns, Kronvaldu Atis, Rainis and A. Upīts

14. (colloquial) to give, to pay

    jauna mašīna maksā četrus tūkstošus, jūsēja ir pietiekami nobraukta, lai par to nedotu pat pusotra ― a new car costs four thousand, (but) yours is quite traveled, so that (one) wouldn't give one and a half thousand (= fifteen hundred)

15. (colloquial, a person's age, by sight) to give, to estimate as

    Mare vēl bija izskatīga sieva, četrdesmit sešus viņai gandrīz nevarēja dot ― Mare was still a handsome woman, you almost couldn't give her forty-six (years of age)

16. (colloquial) to hit

    dot pa ādu ― to give on the skin (= to beat, to flog, to thrash)

    tevi kāds sit, dod pretī, neļaujies apvainot! ― (if) someone hits you, give (= hit) back, don't let (him) offend you!

    viņš deva ar cirvi lācim pa pauri, lācis beigts ― he gave (hit) the bear on the top of the head with an axe, the bear (is now) finished (= dead)

    es šim vīram devu vienu pliķi ― I gave this man a slap (= I slapped his face)

17. (colloquial) to shoot, to give a shot

    nedomā kustēt! ja bēgsi, no abiem stobriem tev došu stilbos ― don't (even) think about moving! if you run, from both barrels I will give (= shoot) (you) in the leg

Conjugation

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• devējs
• devums
• doties

References

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːt/

Verb

dot

1. inflection of doen:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Malay

Noun

dot (plural dot-dot, informal 1st possessive dotku, 2nd possessive dotmu, 3rd possessive dotnya)

1. nipple, teat

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dúgdā (“daughter”). Cognate with Persian دختر (doxtar), دخت (doxt), Pashto لور (lur).

Noun

dot f

1. daughter

Related terms

• dotmam
• keç
• pis

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *totë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtoːh(t)/

Determiner

dōt

1. yonder, that way over there (very far from speaker and listener)

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *daud.

Adjective

dōt

1. dead

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• dōdo

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: dôot
  • Dutch: dood
    • Afrikaans: dood
  • Limburgish: doead

Further reading

• “dōt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Rhine Franconian dot, from a Central German variant of Middle High German tōt, from Old High German tōt, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Swedish död, Icelandic dauður.

Adjective

dot

1. dead

Volapük

Noun

dot (nominative plural dots)

1. doubt

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English dot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔt/

Noun

dot m (plural dotiau)

1. dot

Derived terms

• dotio (“to dot”)
• dotiog (“dotted”)
• i dot (“(the letter) i”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies