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  Five Dots
• WordNet 3.6
  • v dot mark with a dot "dot your `i's"
  • v dot make a dot or dots
  • v dot distribute loosely "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
  • v dot scatter or intersperse like dots or studs "Hills constellated with lights"
  • n dot street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
  • n dot the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
  • n DoT the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
  • n dot a very small circular shape "a row of points","draw lines between the dots"
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Dot and The Lemons

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Dotted Haw

"DERE ISS SOMEDINGS IN DOT SEADT, ALRETTY YET!"

• Interesting fact: The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle
• • n Dot dŏt (Law) A marriage portion; dowry.
  • Dot A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
  • Dot Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
  • prop. n DoT dē"ō*tē` The United States Department of Transportation.The Department of Transportation promulgates standards for the strength of shipping containers, and this abgreviation is often seen on cardboard boxes.
  • v. i Dot To make dots or specks.
  • Dot To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as a landscape dotted with cottages.
  • Dot To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
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• Interesting fact: Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.
• • n dot A point or minute spot on a surface; a small spot of different color, opacity, or material from that of the surface on which it is situated.
  • n dot Specifically — A small spot introduced in the variegation of cloth: as, polka dots in women's dress-fabrics.
  • n dot In writing and printing, a minute round spot serving— as a customary distinction, as the dot over the body of i and j and formerly of y, or
  • n dot as a special diacritic, as the dots of ä, ȧ, a, etc., in the notation of pronunciation used in this dictionary, or the vowel-signs or points in Hebrew and Arabic, or
  • n dot as a mark of punctuation, as the period, which consists of one dot, and the colon, which consists of two dots.
  • n dot In musical notation: A point placed after a note or rest, to indicate that the duration of the note or rest is to be increased one half. A double dot further increases the duration by one half the value of the single dot:
  • n dot A point placed over or under a note, to indicate that the note is to be performed somewhat staccato (which see); but in old music, when several dots are placed over a long note, they indicate that it is to be subdivided into as many short notes:
  • n dot When placed in the spaces of a staff with a heavy or double bar, dots indicate the beginning or end of a repeat (which see).
  • n dot In embroidery, and in weaving imitating embroidery, a simple, small, round spot, especially when solid or opaque, on a thin and translucent ground. There are several kinds, distinguished chiefly by their size, as point de pois, point d'or, etc.
  • n dot In plastering: plural -Nails so driven into a wall that their heads are left projecting a certain distance, thus forming a gage to show how thick the plaster should be laid on.
  • n dot A patch of plaster put on to regulate the floating rule in making screeds and bays.
  • dot To mark with dots; make a dot or dots in or upon: as, to dot an i; to dot a surface.
  • dot To mark or diversify with small detached objects: as, a landscape dotted with cottages or clumps of trees.
  • dot To place so as to appear like dots.
  • dot To make dots or spots.
  • n dot In mod. civil law, dowry; property which the wife brings upon her marriage to the husband, the income of which is in his control for the expenses of the marital establishment, the principal remaining her separate property. It is either formally settled by a written instrument, or secured by expressing the marriage contract as under the dotal rule.
  • n dot In projective geometry, one of the system of n coplanar points which determine a polystigm.
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• Interesting fact: The dot above an 'i' is called the tittle.
• • n Dot dot any small mark made with a pen or sharp point
  • v.t Dot to mark with dots: to diversify with objects
  • v.i Dot to form dots:—pr.p. dot′ting; pa.p. dot′ted
  • n Dot a marriage portion
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• Edmond Rostand

  

  “A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the I in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.”
• Horace Walpole

  

  “It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.”

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