dot
English
/dɒt/, /dɑt/
noun
Definitions
- A small, round spot.
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- (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.
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (obsolete) A lump or clot.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- (cricket) A dot ball.
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *dot inherited from Old English dott (a dot, point) inherited from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (wisp).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*duttaz
Gloss
wisp
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antidot English
- biodot English
- com English
- dotcom English
- dotfile English
- dothead English
- dotless English
- dotlike English
- dotted English
- dotter English
- dottle English
- file English
- head English
- immunodot English
- ink English
- inkdot English
- interdot English
- intradot English
- microdot English
- middot English
- nanodot English
- overdot English
- pseudodot English
- underdot English
- undotted English
- dodaars Dutch, Flemish
- dot Dutch, Flemish
- *duttaz Proto-Germanic
- ドット積 Japanese
- dott Old English
- *dot Middle English
- dottel Middle English
- dottr Old Norse