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dot English

Meaning dot meaning

What does dot mean?
Definitions in simple English

dot Noun

— A dot is a small round mark. You forgot to put a dot over the i. The address is simple dot wiktionary dot org (simple.wiktionary.org). — If you do something at a particular time "on the dot", you do it exactly at that time. I'll be there at 5:00 on the dot.

dot Verb

— If you dot something, you put small round marks on it. Don't forget to dot the i. — If an area is dotted with things, the things are spread out over the area. The valley was dotted with camp fires.

dot

— noun (= point) a very small circular shape a row of points draw lines between the dots — verb (= stud, constellate) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs Hills constellated with lights — verb make a dot or dots — verb mark with a dot dot your 'i's — noun the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code — verb (= scatter) distribute loosely He scattered gun powder under the wagon — noun (= acid) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

DoT

— noun (= Transportation) the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

Synonyms dot synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dot?

dot English » English

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DoT English » English

Transportation Department of Transportation

DOT English » English

Department of Transportation

Topics dot topics

What do people use dot to talk about?
States Quality Shape

Point, dot
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece
States Quantity All

Exact
States Time Relative time Right time

On time

Conjugation dot conjugation

How do you conjugate dot?

dot · verb

Examples dot examples

How do I use dot in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Be at the station at eleven on the dot.
In order to cross from one sentence to the other, Tom was stretching out his arm. Mary clung firmly onto it and jumped over the dot, avoiding to fall into the space.
The cats are curious about the red dot on the wall.
Be sure to dot your 'i's and cross your 't's.
We watched her drive her car away, until it was no more than a dot in the distance.
The remains of human cities dot the Earth.
I don't give a damn If I should dot in there.
The general meeting began at 9 am on the dot.
Be here at six o'clock on the dot.

Movie subtitles

Dot Dash.
Two, three, four, dot, carry the one, two.
The vampire attacks his victim's neck and leaves two tiny white wounds with a red dot in the center.
Oh, Dot, you've gone ahead.
Oh, Dot, how are you?
You're right, Dot.
Yes, Dot.
Ten o'clock on the dot.
The man's the one whom all the newspapers in the state are calling Polka-Dot.
The Polka-Dot Bandit and Sam McGee are one and the same.
Say, Jim ain't a-scared of that Polka-Dot.
It's gonna take brains to ferret out that Polka-Dot.
Say, Davey, supposing I went out and got the Polka-Dot and brought him in here, would you be proud of me?
Shes wearing a polka-dot dress.
It's 12 o'clock on the dot.
She's wearing a polka-dot dress.
Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf.
But the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom.
I can be back here at 12:30 on the dot in front of the house.
No, I wont be late, dear, six o'clock, right on the dot.
And who remembered it? Who was there on the dot at 12 midnight?
Yes, you do that before you dot another 'i', Bob Cratchit!
Call this number at exactly 9:30 on the dot and ask for Larry.
Every morning at six on the dot they'd have the Appell- that's roll call.
He pays rent right on the dot, I'd miss him.
Everything because you were seen going into the priest's garden at 10:30 and emerging again at 11 on the dot.
Hey, Dot.
Oh, no kidding, Dot.
Gee, Dot, you sleep too much.
Hello, Dot.
Dot sure would get a laugh out of this.
No, I'm Dot Lamarr.
Hey, Dot, I got something to tell.
Yes, certainly. Dot.
Oh, I'm Dot Lamarr.
I'll meet you at the station at 7:00 on the dot.
Tomorrow at a quarter to seven! - On the dot!
Who was there on the dot at 12 midnight?
I just adore men with a polka dot tie.

News and current affairs

What is unexpected is that the new wealth is flowing not to the shareholders of dot-com companies, but to purchasers and users of high-tech capital and the consumers they serve.
Old people invest their savings and pensions from home computers; young men and women give up working for salaries to seek a big pay-off in the stock options on offer from dot.com firms.
SAN FRANCISCO: The dot.com boom may have gone bust for the moment, but that is not stopping governments from wanting to encourage their own high-tech industries.
Similarly, the dot-com bubble that preceded this period was marked by innovation - Web sites through which one could order dog food and soft drinks online.
Following the dot-com collapse of the early 2000's, speculation in real estate and financial assets - enabled by cheap money - kept Western economies going.
Thus, even in extreme situations - like the peak of the dot-com bubble in late 1999 and early 2000 - it is very difficult even for those who believe that they know what fundamental values are to make large long-run bets on them.
While the number of new dot-com billionaires created each day is likely to diminish drastically, the benefits of IT to the real economy will continue to spread.
Even though in 2001 the share of GDP devoted to IT investment was about the same in the EU and in the US, this was due to recent, concentrated bursts in Europe, as well as to the rapid investment slowdown in the US after the dot.com bubble burst.
The dot-com bubble of the late 1990s was a misestimate of the timing, not the magnitude, of the digital revolution.
Unfortunately, sometimes prices fail to perform this signaling function properly, as the dot-com and housing bubbles in recent years showed.
During the dot-com bubble, prices signaled huge demand in the Internet sector.
This led to real alarm among policymakers whenever a threat to confidence appeared (as when the dot-com bubble burst at the end of the 1990's).
The dot-com bubble wasn't a threat to the banking system as such, but rather a threat to aggregate demand.
After all, the housing bubble was caused, in part, by pushing credit on households so that they would spend the US out of the recession that followed the dot-com bust.
Bernanke had also supported the low-interest-rate policy implemented after the dot-com collapse, which, in the view of many economists, was maintained for too long, fueling the boom and contributing to the bust.
It did so, in 1990, and Earth shows up in a grainy image as a pale blue dot.
Few internet and dot com companies were profitable, but investors never seemed to mind.
BRUSSELS - The first decade of this century started with the so-called dot-com bubble. When it burst, central banks moved aggressively to ease monetary policy in order to prevent a prolonged period of Japanese-style slow growth.
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