dotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: dŏt, IPA: /dɒt/
• (米国発音) enPR: dät, IPA: /dɑt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /dɔt/
• 韻: -ɒt

語源 1

From 中期英語 *dot, dotte, from 古期英語 dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).

名詞

dot (plural dots)

1. A small, round spot.

   Synonyms: speck, spot

   Hyponyms: pindot, pinprick

   a dot of colour

   • 1845, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems‎, lines 269–272:

     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.

   • 1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China‎, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, page v:

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

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

   Synonyms: (British) full stop, (US) 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.

   Hyponym: (over the letters i and j) tittle

4. (mathematics) 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.

   Synonym: 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.

   Synonym: dit

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

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

7. (obsolete) A lump or clot.

   Synonym: blob

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

   Synonyms: (amount) dab, ounce, (thing) dicky-bird, itsy-bitsy, minuity; see also Thesaurus:modicum

   a dot of a child

9. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
   • 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport‎, London:

     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. (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

    Synonym: shotty

    • 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:

      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. (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).

    Synonyms: bruckback, broom, scattergun, shotty

    • 2018 September 9, “Hide N Seek”, in C1 (lyrics), Tulse Hill Slums‎, from 1:06–1:09:

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

12. (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility

    Synonyms: slammer, can, bin; see also Thesaurus:prison

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

      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

下位語

派生語

動詞

dot (third-person singular simple present dots, present participle dotting, simple past and past participle dotted)

1. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

   His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:

     Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

   • 1988, Bernard Wolf, In the Year of the Tiger‎, 1st edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

     Yang Shuo county, in the middle of the Guangxi Autonomous Region, is an area dotted by hundreds of little villages, all looking much alike.

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

   Dot your is and cross your ts.

3. To mark by means of dots or small spots.

   to dot a line

4. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

   to dot a landscape with cottages

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:

     The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.

   • 2023 April 14, Rosyln Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times‎:

     Wooden crosses, some drunkenly askew, dot a darkened stage at the start of Vuyani Dance Theater’s “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero.” There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs.

5. (colloquial) To punch (a person).
   • 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 332:

     `Which means,' said John, `that someone dotted him a good one, shoved him into the bathtub, ran the water, then opened his mouth and poured champagne into it until he drowned.'

同意語

• stipple

派生語

前置詞

dot

1. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.

   The work is equal to F dot Δx.

等位語

• cross
• ·

語源 2

From French dot.

別の表記

• dote

名詞

dot (plural dots)

1. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 53”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
     "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot."

   • 1927, Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman:

     As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.

関連する語

• dotal
• dotation

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