dot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small round mark or spot.

   From the plane, the houses looked like tiny dots.

2. 2
   verb

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

   Small villages dot the green hillsides.

3. 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.

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”).

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