dot
verb/dɒt/
/dɑːt/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they dot | /dɒt/ /dɑːt/ |
| he / she / it dots | /dɒts/ /dɑːts/ |
| past simple dotted | /ˈdɒtɪd/ /ˈdɑːtɪd/ |
| past participle dotted | /ˈdɒtɪd/ /ˈdɑːtɪd/ |
| -ing form dotting | /ˈdɒtɪŋ/ /ˈdɑːtɪŋ/ |
- dot something to put a dot above or next to a letter or word
- Why do you never dot your i's?
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- [usually passive] to spread things or people over an area; to be spread over an area
- be dotted with something The countryside was dotted with small villages.
- be dotted around… There are lots of Italian restaurants dotted around London.
- dot something Small villages dot the countryside.
- to put very small amounts of something in a number of places on a surface
- dot A on/over B Dot the cream all over your face.
- dot B with A Dot your face with the cream.
Word OriginOld English dott ‘head of a boil’. The word is recorded only once in Old English, then not until the late 16th cent., when it is found in the sense ‘a small lump or clot’, perhaps influenced by Dutch dot ‘a knot’. The sense ‘small mark or spot’ dates from the mid 17th cent.
Idioms
See dot in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee dot in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishdot your i’s and cross your t’s
- to pay attention to the small details when you are finishing a task
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