Word Finder - dots

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A small, round spot.

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a dot of colour

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

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A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

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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.

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One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

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A lump or clot.

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Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

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a dot of a child

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A dot ball.

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Buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

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To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

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His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

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To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

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Dot your is and cross your ts.

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To mark by means of dots or small spots.

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to dot a line

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To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

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to dot a landscape with cottages

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To punch (a person).

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A dowry.

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A punctuation mark consisting of three dots, indicating an omission of some text or a sentence which wasn't fully finished, an ellipsis.

The singleneedle instrument is a vertical needle galvanoscope worked by a battery and reversing handle, or two " tapper " keys, the motions to right and left of one end of the index corresponding to the dashes and dots of the Morse alphabet.

If this is the case, chances are it will look almost like a high school geometry assignment with grids, lines, dots and angles.

Dots and dashes are distinguished by the interval between the sounds of the instrument in precisely the same way as they are distinguished when reading from the recorder by sound.

A modification (known as the cable code) of the ordinary single needle alphabet is used; that is to say, currents in one direction indicate dots and in the other direction dashes.

The interpretation of the signals is according to the Morse code, - the dot and dash being represented by deflexions of the line of dots to one side or other of the centre line of the paper.

But about the time when it began to be supplanted by Arabic, two systems of vowel-signs were invented, one for the West Syrians, who borrowed the forms of Greek vowels, and the other more elaborate for the East Syrians, who used combinations of dots.

The eyes are indicated as black dots behind the cerebral ganglia.

I more comp complicated in the In all the figures the nephridial pores are indicated by dots and the setae by larger forms than in the strokes.

At a later date Berzelius denoted an oxide by dots, equal in number to the number of oxygen atoms present, placed over the element; this notation survived longest in mineralogy.

Namako is obtained by punching the whole surfaceexcept the portion carrying the decorative designinto a texture of microscopic dots.

The dots indicate the actual size.

But from the I 5th century the punching of the dots in rigidly straight lines came to be considered essential, and the difficulty involved was so great that namako-making took its place among the highest technical achievements of the sculptor.

It was obtained by punching the dots in intersecting lines, so arranged that the dots fell uniformly into diamond-shaped groups of five each.

A century later, the daimyo namako was invented, in which lines of dots alternated with lines of polished ground.

Another variety has small, rather widely separated cherry-red dots.

The Aztec numerals, which were vigesimal or reckoned by scores, were depicted by dots or circles up to 20, which was represented by a flag, 400 (a score of scores) by a feather, and 8000 (a score of scores of scores) by a purse; but for convenience these symbols might be halved and quartered, so that 534 might be shown by one feather, one quarter of a feather, one flag, one-half of a flag, and four dots.

The colour is blackish, or of a dark olive-grey or brownish grey with round black spots or dots.

The ornamentation consists of dots, zigzags, chevrons or crosses.

The line of pressures as generally given for this dam with the reservoir full, on the hypothesis that the density of the masonry was a little over 2, is shown by long and short dots in fig.

The corallum shaded with dots, the mesogloea represented by a thick line.

It would also seem that during the breeding-season many of them are wholly nocturnal in their habits, passing the day in holes of the ground, or in clefts of the rocks, in which they generally nestle, the hen of each pair laying a single white egg, sparsely speckled in a few species with fine reddish dots.

The under parts are yellowish with black dots.

The dots represent a whorl of stamens which has disappeared.

Several were in Southern California while two blue dots – the one in her cell phone and the other in a shoe – appeared on the map in Texas.

This fabulous 1960s bangle is made from white celluloid with large black polka dots.

They are sorted by relevance, made clear by the number of blue dots on the right.

This effect is known as ' dot crawl ' or ' hanging dots ' .

Some embossers can produce tactile diagrams using patterns of dots.

The next player must play a domino with either an end of 5 or 1 dots.

I sighed and studied the luminous dots and lines on my wrist.

A medical scan of a head or a heart might include many millions of these tiny colored dots.

A really cool mens vintage tie in turquoise satin, featuring dark blue polka dots.

There is a display made by Canon that uses nano-composites, but they are metallic particles and not quantum dots.

In most color monitors the dots are built of triads, groups of three phosphor dots, one for Red, Green and Blue.

The adult has pure white forewings (sometimes with a slight gray suffusion at the center ), with black dots.

The dots which are fine markings on the diatom frustule are now clearly seen.

Far below them lay the hamlet, a cluster of black dots on a field of pure snow.

The herb's delicate flowers have five petals with tiny, almost imperceptible black dots along their margins.

If you place the dots with even spacing from frame to frame, the motion will look linear.

You CAN stretch a bit map but the dots which make up the image will grow into ' bricks ' and therefore look lumpy.

Fill in with the glitter paint and then, using an artists paintbrush, mark the edge with Henna type dots.

Three scanning electron beams hit the phosphor screen at slightly different angles to excite different phosphors to produce red, green and blue dots.

When the electrons strike the phosphor dots they glow to give the colors.

We can routinely measure photoluminescence from individual quantum dots, also time-resolved.

He created amazing pictures using the tip of his brush to make dots of paint - a style called pointillism.

As well as the Union Jack waistcoat, Prince William also favored one in blue with large white polka dots.

For every Delvin Kehoe, there are several others whose visual prosthetics deliver little more than dots and fuzzy patches.

The latter show up as red dots on your radar, and usually involve scuffles between criminals and the public or the police.

A ticker timer is designed to print dots onto tape at a steady rate of 50 dots per second.

The first makers of namako did not aim at regularity in the distribution of these dots; they were content to produce the effect of millet-seed sifted haphazard over the surface.