Dot - English meaning

noun

The smallest particle of a chemical element that can exist.

Usage examples:

Once removed from an atom, an electron may in turn ionize other atoms or molecules.

verb

Mark or cover with a large number of small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

The designer whose trademark is to bespeckle his dresses with diamonds

verb

Sprinkle all over with small drops or amounts of a substance.

Usage examples:

He saw his master besprinkled with blood

verb

Cover or partly cover (a surface) with scattered objects.

Usage examples:

The court was all bestrewn with herbs

verb

To lie covering a surface, or to cover a surface with things that are far apart and in no particular arrangement

Usage examples:

During the festival, the city streets are bestrewn with flowers.

noun

A small piece, part, or quantity of something.

Usage examples:

Give the duck a bit of bread

verb

Past of bite.

verb

Put a bit into the mouth of (a horse).

Usage examples:

However, they can experience behavioral problems when ridden, many coming back to bad experiences w…

verb

Press against (something) lightly several times with a piece of absorbent material in order to clean or dry it or to apply a substance.

Usage examples:

He dabbed his mouth with his napkin

noun

A small amount of something.

Usage examples:

She licked a dab of chocolate from her finger

noun

A small, commercially important flatfish found chiefly in the north atlantic.

Usage examples:

Even though this rig is especially good for gurnards, it also proves superbly successful for dabs, …

noun

Fine, dry powder consisting of tiny particles of earth or waste matter lying on the ground or on surfaces or carried in the air.

Usage examples:

The car sent up clouds of dust

verb

Remove the dust or dirt from the surface of (something) by wiping or brushing it.

Usage examples:

I broke the vase i had been dusting

noun

Dry dirt in the form of powder that covers surfaces inside a building, or very small dry pieces of earth, sand, or other substances

Usage examples:

The furniture was covered with dust., piles of dusty books lay on the floor., [ i/t ] i was dusting…

noun

A very small patch of colour or light.

Usage examples:

His blue eyes had grey flecks in them

verb

Mark or dot with small patches of colour or particles of something.

Usage examples:

The minarets are flecked with gold leaf

noun

A small mark, esp. of a different color

Usage examples:

I got a few flecks of paint on the window when i was painting the frames., her hair is flecked with…

noun

A small patch of light brown colour on the skin, often becoming more pronounced through exposure to the sun.

Usage examples:

She had a light sprinkling of freckles on her nose

verb

Cover or become covered with freckles.

Usage examples:

Skin which freckles easily

noun

A small brown spot on the skin, esp. on a light-skinned person

Usage examples:

The brothers were in their early teens, and both had reddish hair and freckles., a freckled nose

noun

The ninth letter of the greek alphabet ( ι, ι ), transliterated as ‘i’.

verb

Write (something) quickly.

Usage examples:

When you've found the answers, jot them down

noun

A very small amount.

Usage examples:

You didn't care a jot

verb

To write something quickly in a short note

Usage examples:

[ m ] the guard jotted down the van’s license plate number.

noun

An oval yellowish area surrounding the fovea near the centre of the retina in the eye, which is the region of keenest vision.

Usage examples:

The macula lutea or ‘yellow spot’ in the retina is responsible for central vision and visual acuity.

noun

An area of skin discoloration.

Usage examples:

The lesions first appear as macules or papules distributed in a dermatomal pattern, which progress …

noun

A small area on a surface having a different colour from its surroundings, typically one caused by damage or dirt.

Usage examples:

The blow left a red mark down one side of her face

verb

Make a visible impression or stain on.

Usage examples:

He fingered the photograph gently, careful not to mark it

noun

(until the introduction of the euro in 2002) the basic monetary unit of germany, equal to 100 pfennig; a deutschmark.

Usage examples:

Germany spent billions of marks to save the french franc from speculators

noun

A minute arachnid which has four pairs of legs when adult, related to the ticks. many kinds live in the soil and a number are parasitic on plants or animals.

Usage examples:

All of these arthropods are known predators of insect eggs; on at least 17 plants, adult mites were…

adverb

A little; slightly.

Usage examples:

I haven't eaten yet and i'm feeling a mite peckish

noun

A group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction.

Usage examples:

It works by affecting a molecule called nitric oxide, which expands blood vessels.

noun

The smallest unit into which a substance can be divided without chemical change, usually a group of two or more atoms

noun

A tiny piece of a substance; a speck.

Usage examples:

The tiniest mote of dust

noun

Something, especially a piece of dust, that is so small it is almost impossible to see

noun

A minute portion of matter.

Usage examples:

Tiny particles of dust

noun

An extremely small piece of something

Usage examples:

Dust particles

noun

A word or a part of a word that has a grammatical purpose but often has little or no meaning

Usage examples:

In the sentence "i tidied up the room", the adverb "up" is a particle.

noun

A tiny dot or point.

Usage examples:

A pinpoint of light

adjective

Absolutely precise; to the finest degree.

Usage examples:

This weapon fired shells with pinpoint accuracy

verb

Find or identify with great accuracy or precision.

Usage examples:

One flare had pinpointed the target

noun

A prick caused by a pin.

Usage examples:

For the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pinprick

noun

A very small hole in something where a pin or needle has been pushed into it, or a sudden pain where a pin or needle has been pushed into your skin

Usage examples:

There was a pinprick on his arm., the darkness was broken by the odd pinprick of light., you have t…

noun

A pockmark.

Usage examples:

He was a strange-looking man, olived-skinned face marked with scars and pocks from unknown battles.

noun

The tapered, sharp end of a tool, weapon, or other object.

Usage examples:

The point of his dagger

verb

A fielding position on the off side near the batsman.

noun

A tiny spot.

Usage examples:

The figure in the distance had become a mere speck

verb

Mark with small spots.

Usage examples:

Their skin was specked with goose pimples

noun

A smoked ham of a type produced in north-eastern italy.

Usage examples:

Add the radicchio, thyme, speck, prosciutto, and chicken stock and cook for another eight to ten mi…

noun

A small spot or patch of colour.

Usage examples:

It has white speckles on its forewing

verb

Mark with a large number of small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

Gulls whirled round the masts, speckling the docks with guano

noun

A very small mark of a different colour from the area around it, usually found with a large number of other marks of the same type

Usage examples:

A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it., a few drops of blood speckled his face., blac…

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region

verb

Cover (an object or surface) with small drops or particles of a substance.

Usage examples:

I sprinkled the floor with water

noun

A small quantity or amount of something scattered over an object or surface.

Usage examples:

A generous sprinkle of pepper

verb

(in drawing, painting, and engraving) mark (a surface) with numerous small dots or specks.

Usage examples:

To finish, stipple the picture with the original base colour

noun

The process or technique of stippling a surface, or the effect so created.

Usage examples:

These pictures combine his favourite techniques—wash, line, and stipple

verb

To draw or paint something using small spots or marks

Usage examples:

She tried to create the impression of strong sunlight by stippling the canvas in yellow and white.,…