dot

noun

1. A small, round spot.

   “a dot of colour”

   “Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away.”

   “THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO A VERY SMALL DOT IN A VERY BIG UNIVERSE”

2. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

   “The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]”

3. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
4. A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
5. in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
6. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

   “The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.”

7. (obsolete)A lump or clot.
8. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

   “a dot of a child”

9. (informal)A dot ball.

   “That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.”

10. (Multicultural-London-English)buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

    “Can’t miss no dots Every shot let caused I’m hittin Used to bag it up in the toilet My mumsie thought I was shittin”

11. (Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).

    “We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block”

12. (Multicultural-London-English, rare, slang)confinement facility

    “The feds want me in the dot I got luck for selling them drugs But when I come out I’m still building a spot”

13. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of dotfile
14. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of damage over time.
16. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.
17. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of DOT.

name

1. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Department of Transportation or Department of Transport.

   “Alaska DOT crews returned to Igiugig on Tuesday to repair the lights, which are now back in service, Dapcevich said.”

3. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Department of Tourism.