dot

B1 Topic:Space, Position & Direction

US /dɑt/ UK /dɒt/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like dote /ɑ/ vs /oʊ/

Freq #5926

Meanings

1

noun
A small round mark or spot.

From the plane, the houses looked like tiny dots.
2

verb
To mark something with a dot, or to be scattered across an area like dots.

Small villages dot the green hillsides.
3

noun
One of the two basic signals in Morse code, the other being the dash.

The letter S is three dots in Morse code.

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1 noun · a small round mark or spot. spot speck

3 noun · one of the two basic... dit

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Word family

Forms dotsdotteddotting

Derived forms adotaldotantidotbiodotdot-and-carry-onedot-and-go-onedot-bombdot-carnagedot-comdot-comadot-comerdot-commer

Related forms mot

Etymology

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 Middle English dott Old English *dott Proto-West Germanic *duttaz Proto-Germanic

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# dot

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /dɑt/
**IPA (UK):** /dɒt/
**Frequency rank:** 5926

## Meanings
1. A small round mark or spot.
2. To mark something with a dot, or to be scattered across an area like dots.
3. One of the two basic signals in Morse code, the other being the dash.

## Examples
- From the plane, the houses looked like tiny dots.
- Small villages dot the green hillsides.
- The letter S is three dots in Morse code.

## Synonyms
- stipple

## Derived Forms
- adot
- aldot
- antidot
- biodot
- dot-and-carry-one
- dot-and-go-one
- dot-bomb
- dot-carnage
- dot-com
- dot-coma
- dot-comer
- dot-commer

## Related Forms
- mot

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *dot
- Root: dott
- Root: *dott
- Root: *duttaz

## Etymology
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”).

## AI Etymology
Dot comes 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”). In current use, the main senses are “A small round mark or spot” and “To mark something with a dot, or to be scattered across an area like dots”.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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