dot

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   mark with a dot

   dot your `i's

2. 2
   noun

   A small, round spot.

   a dot of colour

3. 3
   noun

   One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

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

4. 4
   noun

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

   a dot of a child

5. 5
   noun

   A dot ball.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

   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

7. 7
   noun

   Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).

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

8. 8
   noun

   confinement facility

   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

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”).