dot
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 →
2) A dot is the point in a web or email address, said «dot». tree →
3) Dotted means with many small marks, or with things scattered here and there. tree →
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 →
- Draw 4 rows of 3 dots. tree →
- How many dots are on the domino? tree →
- Join the dots in order. tree →
- Don't forget the dot on the i. tree →
- She has a dress with white dots. tree →
- Be there at 3 o'clock on the dot. tree →
- Houses are dotted along the hill. tree →
- 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 →
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.
- In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn.
- Even one pencil dot holds more atoms than the number of people who have ever lived.
- Sound buttons are dots under the letters, one for each sound; a letter team such as sh gets one button.
- An ellipsis is exactly three dots; it shows suspense, a trailing-off voice, or missing words.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.