dot — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A small, round spot.

   Sinonimi

   speckspot

   Esempi

   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.

   Altri esempi (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.

   Sinonimi

   point

   Esempi

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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.

   Sinonimi

   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.

   Sinonimi

   dit

   Esempi

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

7. A lump or clot.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Sinonimi

   blob

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

   Sinonimi

   dabouncedicky-birditsy-bitsyminuity

   Esempi

   a dot of a child

9. A dot ball.

   Uso

   • informale

   Esempi

   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

    Uso

    • Multicultural-London-English

    Sinonimi

    shotty

    Esempi

    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

    Uso

    • Multicultural-London-English
    • raro
    • gergo

    Sinonimi

    slammercanbin

    Esempi

    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

Sostantivo

1. a very small circular shape

   Sinonimi

   point

   Termini più generali

   diskdiscsaucer

   Esempi

   a row of points

   draw lines between the dots

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

   Sinonimi

   dit

   Termini più generali

   telegraphic signalradiotelegraphic signal

3. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

   Sinonimi

   acidback breakerbattery-aciddoseElvisloony toonsLucy in the sky with diamondspanesupermanwindow paneZen

   Termini più generali

   lysergic acid diethylamideLSD

Verbo

1. scatter or intersperse like dots or studs

   Sinonimi

   studconstellate

   Termini più generali

   covercontinueextend

   Esempi

   Hills constellated with lights

2. distribute loosely

   Sinonimi

   scattersprinkledustdisperse

   Termini più generali

   discharge

   Esempi

   He scattered gun powder under the wagon

3. make a dot or dots

   Termini più generali

   write

4. mark with a dot

   Termini più generali

   mark

   Esempi

   dot your i's