dot — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A small, round spot.

   Synonyme

   speckspot

   Beispiele

   a dot of colour

   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.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

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

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

   Synonyme

   point

   Beispiele

   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.

   Synonyme

   decimal point

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.

   Synonyme

   dit

   Beispiele

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

7. A lump or clot.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

   Synonyme

   blob

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

   Synonyme

   dabouncedicky-birditsy-bitsyminuity

   Beispiele

   a dot of a child

9. A dot ball.

   Gebrauch

   • informell

   Beispiele

   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.

10. buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

    Gebrauch

    • Multicultural-London-English

    Synonyme

    shotty

    Beispiele

    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

11. confinement facility

    Gebrauch

    • Multicultural-London-English
    • selten
    • Slang

    Synonyme

    slammercanbin

    Beispiele

    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

Substantiv

1. a very small circular shape

   Synonyme

   point

   Oberbegriffe

   diskdiscsaucer

   Beispiele

   a row of points

   draw lines between the dots

2. the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code

   Synonyme

   dit

   Oberbegriffe

   telegraphic signalradiotelegraphic signal

3. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

   Synonyme

   acidback breakerbattery-aciddoseElvisloony toonsLucy in the sky with diamondspanesupermanwindow paneZen

   Oberbegriffe

   lysergic acid diethylamideLSD

Verb

1. scatter or intersperse like dots or studs

   Synonyme

   studconstellate

   Oberbegriffe

   covercontinueextend

   Beispiele

   Hills constellated with lights

2. distribute loosely

   Synonyme

   scattersprinkledustdisperse

   Oberbegriffe

   discharge

   Beispiele

   He scattered gun powder under the wagon

3. make a dot or dots

   Oberbegriffe

   write

4. mark with a dot

   Oberbegriffe

   mark

   Beispiele

   dot your i's