[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/dot.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / dot [← D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/D/) # dot «dot» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a very small round mark** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (dot, dots); verb (dot, dots, dotted — to mark with dots or to spread here and there) ### meaning for a pupil 1) A dot is a very small round mark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#m1) 2) A dot is the point in a web or email address, said «dot». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#m2) 3) Dotted means with many small marks, or with things scattered here and there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Ezekiel "doted" means loved too much and foolishly. It is used as a picture of Oholah and Oholibah, who stand for Samaria and Jerusalem, running after foreign nations. In Sefer Yetzirah dots were also a way of writing numbers. Interpretation: Tradition reads these verses as a picture of Israel being unfaithful to God, like a wife who loves other lovers. In the primary lessons: maths: marks counted on dice, dominoes, cards or arrays; dots in rows (rows × dots in each = total); dot-to-dot pictures; a dot can be a decimal point; English: the dot on the i and j; everyday life: polka dots, web addresses; phrases: «on the dot» means exactly on time ### examples - were also symbolized by ten dots (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x1) - The figure 1 originated apparently from a circle and a stroke, and a dot indicated a zero. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x2) - And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. (Prophets EZK.23.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x3) - And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors, (Prophets EZK.23.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x4) - Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. (Prophets EZK.23.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x5) - A die shows 5 dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x6) - Draw 4 rows of 3 dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x7) - How many dots are on the domino? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x8) - Join the dots in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x9) - Don't forget the dot on the i. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x10) - She has a dress with white dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x11) - Be there at 3 o'clock on the dot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x12) - Houses are dotted along the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x13) - Then the child was to take the apple and be led into a room where the twenty men with the black dots were sitting in a ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x14) ### note Thing counted; rows × dots per row give the total. Trap: a dot can also be a decimal point in numbers like 2.5. ### In the corpora - [A pixel is one tiny dot of a digital picture.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/12/) - [In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/0/) - [Even one pencil dot holds more atoms than the number of people who have ever lived.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/7/) - [Sound buttons are dots under the letters, one for each sound; a letter team such as sh gets one button.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/18/) - [An ellipsis is exactly three dots; it shows suspense, a trailing-off voice, or missing words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/15/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «dot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.