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# dot

«dot» in Mova's school 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/school/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/school/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/school/D/dot/#m3)

### sense in the 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

- A die shows 5 dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x1)
- Draw 4 rows of 3 dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x2)
- How many dots are on the domino? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x3)
- Join the dots in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x4)
- Don't forget the dot on the i. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x5)
- She has a dress with white dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x6)
- Be there at 3 o'clock on the dot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x7)
- Houses are dotted along the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x8)
- 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/school/D/dot/#x9)

### 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/school/D/dot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.