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dot^¹

/dɒt/ UK
/dɑt/ US
/dɔt/ Australia

Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

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”).

noun dots

A small, round spot. a dot of colour
Similar: speck, spot
A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]
Similar: full stop, period, point
A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
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.
Similar: decimal point
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%.
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.
Similar: dit
obsolete A lump or clot.
Similar: blob
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen. a dot of a child
Similar: dab, ounce, dicky-bird, itsy-bitsy, minuity, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental
informal 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.
Multicultural London English 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
Similar: shotty
Multicultural London English, abbreviation, clipping Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”). We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block
Similar: bruckback, broom, scattergun, shotty
Multicultural London English, rare, slang 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
Similar: slammer, can, bin
abbreviation, clipping Clipping of dotfile

Dot^²

proper noun

A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.

DOT^³

proper noun D.O.T. · D. O. T. · DoT · d.o.t.

US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Department of Transportation or Department of Transport Alaska DOT crews returned to Igiugig on Tuesday to repair the lights, which are now back in service, Dapcevich said.
Philippines, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Department of Tourism

noun DOTs · D.O.T. · D. O. T. · DoT · d.o.t.

abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of damage over time
Opposite: HOT
broadly, countable, uncountable A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.

DoT^⁴

noun DoTs

alternative Alternative spelling of DOT

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: sprinkle, scatter, disperse, dust, dit, stud, point, constellate, speck, tcm, tdm, pike, mdt, span, death, knitted

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@misc{dot_2026,
  title = {dot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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