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. - 1845, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems, lines...
   • THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO A VERY SMALL DOT IN A VERY BIG UNIVERSE - 1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, page v:

   Synonyms: speck spot

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]

   Synonyms: full stop period point

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.

   Synonyms: decimal point

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. - 1838, William Hamilton, “Report on Prof. Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute:

   Synonyms: dit

7. A lump or clot.

   Synonyms: blob

8. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
   • a dot of a child

   Synonyms: dab ounce dicky-bird itsy-bitsy minuity ace atom atomy aught bissel bit crumb glimpse damn dash diddly glint dot spatter drop dusting fleck glimmer hint

9. 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. - 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes...
10. 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 - 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:

    Synonyms: shotty

11. Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
    • We got rambos, glocks and dots, It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block - 2018 September 9, “Hide N Seek”, in C1 (lyrics), Tulse Hill Slums, from 1:06–1:09:

    Synonyms: bruckback broom scattergun shotty

12. 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 - 2024 March 17, “Scummy” (0:31 from the start), Trizz #Birmingham (lyrics):

    Synonyms: slammer can bin