dotted

«dotted» in Mova's school dictionary: marked with small dots or made of dots, like a dotted line — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (dotted); verb (dot, dots, dotted, dotting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Dotted means marked with small dots or made of dots, like a dotted line. tree →

2) Dotted with means having small things spread here and there, as in a field dotted with sheep. tree →

3) (music) A dotted note lasts half as long again as the plain note. tree →

4) Sign on the dotted line means agree to and sign an official paper. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school: «cut along the dotted line», «trace the dotted letters», dotted lines in maths for lines of symmetry or hidden edges, and graphs. In stories it paints a scene with things spread out. Phrases: dotted line, dotted with, dotted around, sign on the dotted line.

examples

• Cut along the dotted line. tree →
• Trace the dotted letters to practise writing. tree →
• The hillside was dotted with sheep. tree →
• Draw a dotted line to show the line of symmetry. tree →
• Islands are dotted around the coast. tree →
• A dotted crotchet lasts one and a half beats. tree →
• Mum signed on the dotted line to join the gym. tree →
• Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the murmuring river flowing through them, and dotted here and there were small wooden houses. tree →

note

Double t in dotted, dotting. In geometry a dotted line often shows a line you cannot see (a hidden edge) or a fold. In music a dot after a note adds half its value: a dotted minim = 2 + 1 = 3 beats.

In the corpora

• In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn.
• France's year is dotted with special days, and each one has its own words, food or game.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dotted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.