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Dot   /dɑt/   Listen
noun
Dot  n.  (Law) A marriage portion; dowry. (Louisiana)


Dot  n.  
1.
A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
2.
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.


proper noun
D.O.T., DOT, DoT  n.  The United States Department of Transportation. (acronym) Note: The Department of Transportation promulgates standards for the strength of shipping containers, and this abgreviation is often seen on cardboard boxes.


verb
Dot  v. t.  (past & past part. dotted; pres. part. dotting)  
1.
To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
2.
To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.


Dot  v. i.  To make dots or specks.





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"Dot" Quotes from Famous Books



... particle! She's sore on the Kaiser; it's been thumbs down on Wilhelm ever since Adolph and the boys lost the number of their mess. She says to me: 'Herr Riddle, dot Kaiser orders war like I order beer!' However, there's an 'if' to the transfer. While we know the British Navy will not bother us should we buy the steamer, still enthusiastic Britishers all over the world will ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... holding from twenty to forty thousand barrels of oil, dot the valley quite as thickly as do the blots of ink on a school-boy's first composition, and form storage places for this strange product of earth, when the supply is greater than the demand. It is truly a singular ...
— Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation • James Otis
... in deep reverence. Books! Bottled chatter! things that some other simian has formerly said. They will dress them in costly bindings, keep them under glass, and take an affecting pride in the number they read. Libraries —store-houses of books,—will dot their world. The destruction of one will be a crime against civilization. (Meaning, again, a simian civilization.) Well, it is an offense to be sure—a barbaric offense. But so is defacing forever a beautiful landscape; and they won't even notice that sometimes; they won't ...
— This Simian World • Clarence Day Jr.
... saying good-bye. It was thick, snowing and drifting clouds when we started back after making the depot, and the last we saw of them as we swung the sledge north was a black dot just disappearing over the next ridge and a big white pressure wave ahead of them.... Scott said some nice things when we said good-bye. Anyway he has only to average seven miles a day to get to the Pole on full rations—it's practically a cert for him. I do hope he takes ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
... had in her girlhood been Miss Geraldine Grey, of Allington, one of those quiet, pretty little towns which so thickly dot the hills and valleys Of New England. Her father, who died before her marriage, had been a sea-captain, and a man of great wealth, and was looked upon as a kind of autocrat, whose opinion was a law and whose friendship was an honor. When ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes


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