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DOT

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Irregular inflected forms: dotted    , dotting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

Synonyms:

acid; back breaker; battery-acid; dose; dot; Elvis; loony toons; Lucy in the sky with diamonds; pane; superman; window pane; Zen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dot" is a kind of...):

LSD; lysergic acid diethylamide (a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code

Synonyms:

dit; dot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dot" is a kind of...):

radiotelegraphic signal; telegraphic signal (a signal transmitted by telegraphy)

Holonyms ("dot" is a part of...):

international Morse code; Morse; Morse code (a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

Synonyms:

Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("DoT" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "DoT"):

FAA; Federal Aviation Administration (an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation)

Transportation Security Administration; TSA (an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel)

U. S. Coast Guard; United States Coast Guard; US Coast Guard (an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A very small circular shape

Example:

draw lines between the dots

Synonyms:

dot; point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("dot" is a kind of...):

disc; disk; saucer (something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate)

Derivation:

dot (mark with a dot)

dot (make a dot or dots)

dot (scatter or intersperse like dots or studs)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark with a dot

Example:

dot your 'i's

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dot" is one way to...):

mark (make or leave a mark on)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

dot (a very small circular shape)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a dot or dots

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "dot" is one way to...):

write (mark or trace on a surface)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

dot (a very small circular shape)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Distribute loosely

Example:

He scattered gun powder under the wagon

Synonyms:

disperse; dot; dust; scatter; sprinkle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dot" is one way to...):

discharge (pour forth or release)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dot"):

spray (scatter in a mass or jet of droplets)

spray (be discharged in sprays of liquid)

plash; spatter; splash; splatter; splosh; swash (dash a liquid upon or against)

splash; splosh; sprinkle (cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force)

bespangle (dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects)

aerosolise; aerosolize (disperse as an aerosol)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs

Example:

Hills constellated with lights

Synonyms:

constellate; dot; stud

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "dot" is one way to...):

continue; cover; extend (span an interval of distance, space or time)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

dot (a very small circular shape)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We could see a long white ribbon of it, all dotted with carts and waggons coming from Croydon to Redhill, but there was no sign of the big red four-in-hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Conventional techniques used for testing for the hybridization product include dot blot assays, Southern blot assays, and DNA:RNA hybrid-specific antibody tests.

(DNA Probes, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A method in which an image or other type of data is changed into a series of dots or numbers so that it can be viewed and studied on a computer.

(Digital image analysis, NCI Dictionary)

Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale Crater, the 100-mile-wide (150-kilometer-wide) ancient basin that Curiosity is exploring.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

A hemangioma arising from the skin, presenting as a red dot.

(Angioma Serpiginosum, NCI Thesaurus)

The absence of the i-dots in the old man’s writing is also most characteristic.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The microbleeds appeared as either linear streaks or dotted, also referred to as punctate, lesions.

(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)

Sweeping the glass all around us I could see here and there dots moving singly and in twos and threes and larger numbers—the wolves were gathering for their prey.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"He does dot shust to be politeful to Mrs. Nelson," was Dutchy's quick retort.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)