dot

[dɑːt]

Definition:
1. A very small circular shape.
2. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
3. Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide.
4. Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs.
5. Distribute loosely.

Use 'dot' in a sentence:

• 1. They appeared on the dot of 9.50 pm as always.
• 2. Let's go ahead and open up global dot c, or you can follow along up here.
• 3. When you're wearing a loud polka dot clothes, you need to keep the rest of your outfit quiet.
• 4. Students were confused to see that there was just a black dot in the center of the page.
• 5. A lot of dot-coms were under pressure from their investors.
• 6. Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon.
• 7. Breakfast is served at 8 on the dot.
• 8. The maps were dotted with the names of small towns.
• 9. Two o'clock on the dot! How's that for punctuality!
• 10. They also looked at whether clothing items had childlike characteristics, e.g. polka dot patterns and ribbons.
• 11. For breakfast on Singles' Day, singles often eat four deep-fried dough sticks and one steamed stuffed bun representing the middle dot.
• 12. Many pieces of sculpture are dotted around the house.
• 13. After reading all the answers, the teacher said, "Here everyone only paid attention to the black dot, but no one wrote about the white paper."
• 14. 'For heaven's sake!' Dot expostulated. 'They're cheap and they're useful.'
• 15. At nine o' clock on the dot, they have breakfast.
• 16. Write your name on the dotted line.
• 17. Cut along the dotted line.
• 18. It's the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her abdomen.
• 19. "For heaven's sake!" Dot expostulated. "They're cheap and they're useful."
• 20. Dot your face with the cream.
• 21. I borrowed my friend's polka dot galoshes, but at this point in the tunnel, the water was well above them.
• 22. Just sign on the dotted line and the car is yours.
• 23. Small coastal towns dot the landscape.
• 24. The city is dotted with small lakes, natural and artificial.
• 25. Lofty derricks dot the landscape in an oil field.
• 26. In the distance, the dot of a boat appeared on the horizon.
• 27. It's a little spot, and a little dot on the map.
• 28. The junctional complex appears as a dense bar dot near the juxtaluminal surface.
• 29. In 1999, dot-coms spent more than $1 billion on TV spots.
• 30. I've been going there every summer since the year dot.
• 31. The DOT is to publish the conference proceedings.
• 32. There is also an interesting contrast between the darkness of the subject's mood and the lightness of her pink and polka dot clothes.
• 33. He started for Dot's bedroom and Myrtle held him back.
• 34. Dot arrived in a state of great agitation.
• 35. Think dark jeans with a bright polka-dot top, or contrast a nude shift dress with a tailored spotty jacket.
• 36. Are these dots and squiggles supposed to be your signature?
• 37. The taxi showed up on the dot.
• 38. The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion.
• 39. There are lots of Italian restaurants dotted around London.
• 40. All of them described the black dot.
• 41. You've wanted to be a barrister since the year dot.
• 42. Dot the cream all over your face.
• 43. Why do you never dot your i's?
• 44. They appeared on the dot of 9:50 p.m. as always.
• 45. The weaker dot-coms have collapsed.
• 46. The helicopters appeared as two black dots on the horizon.
• 47. Country boundaries are shown on this map as dotted lines.
• 48. The countryside was dotted with small villages.
• 49. Small villages dot the countryside.
• 50. The island is a small green dot on the map.
• 51. Glass hives offer a close-up view of the bees at work, with the queen bee in each hive marked by a white dot.
• 52. There are countless small ski areas dotted about the province.
• 53. Text and graphics are printed at 300 dots per inch.
• 54. Fold along the dotted line.
• 55. The image is then stored on the computer hard disk as a vast array of black or white dots.