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DOTTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having gaps or spaces
Example:
sign on the dotted line
Synonyms:
dashed; dotted
Classified under:
Similar:
broken (not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a pattern of dots
Synonyms:
dotted; flecked; specked; speckled; stippled
Classified under:
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dot
Context examples:
This month will be dotted with important dates, each of them building on the one that came before to make sure you see your bounty.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Thickets of green nutmeg-trees were dotted here and there with the red columns and the broad shadow of the pines; and the first mingled their spice with the aroma of the others.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The stragglers who had dotted the grass had closed in until the huge crowd was one unit with a single mighty voice, which was already beginning to bellow its impatience.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A squareness about the lower part of his face, and the dotted indication of the strong black beard he shaved close every day, reminded me of the wax-work that had travelled into our neighbourhood some half-a-year before.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the foreground was the long slope, strewn with rocks and dotted with tree-ferns; farther off in the middle distance, looking over the saddle-back hill, I could just see the yellow and green mass of bamboos through which we had passed; and then, gradually, the vegetation increased until it formed the huge forest which extended as far as the eyes could reach, and for a good two thousand miles beyond.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But even as he brooded sadly over it and pined for the sweet peace of the Abbey, he came on an open space dotted with holly bushes, where was the strangest sight that he had yet chanced upon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
