dot

名词 n.
/dɒt/    /dɑt/|/dɔt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, round spot.
    — a dot of colour
  2. 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]
  3. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
  4. 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.
  5. 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%.
  6. 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.
  7. A lump or clot. obsolete
  8. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
    — a dot of a child
  9. A dot ball. informal
    — 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.
  10. buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun Multicultural-London-English
    — 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
  11. Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”). Multicultural-London-English,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
    — We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block
  12. confinement facility Multicultural-London-English,rare,slang
    — 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
  13. Clipping of dotfile abbreviation,alt-of,clipping

词形变化

dots plural

词源

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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