dot

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.

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

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

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

(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.

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%.

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

1838, William Hamilton, “Report on Prof. Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute:

One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

a dot of a child

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

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.

2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:

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

2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:

(MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

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

2018 September 9, “Hide N Seek”, in C1 (lyrics), Tulse Hill Slums, from 1:06–1:09:

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

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

középső pont

at mid-level in comparison to the letter

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”).


dot

His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

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

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

Yang Shuo county, in the middle of the Guangxi Autonomous Region, is an area dotted by hundreds of little villages, all looking much alike.

1988, Bernard Wolf, In the Year of the Tiger, 1st edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

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

Dot your is and cross your ts.

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

to dot a line

To mark by means of dots or small spots.

to dot a landscape with cottages

The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:

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.

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

To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

`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.'

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 332:

en-verb

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

dots (present singular third-person)
dotting (participle present)
dotted (participle past)
dotted (past)


dot

The work is equal to F dot Δx.

Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.


dot

"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."

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 53”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

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

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