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English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?b/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

Verb

dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (slang, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, and Britain) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.

   I’ll dob on you if you break in.

   You dobbed me in! — I never did!

   • 1983, James Macpherson, The Feral Classroom, page 107,

     Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.

   • 1998, Supreme Court of Victoria, Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Victorian Reports, Volume 4, page 372,

     The deceased “dobbed” him in about drugs to police on two occasions. This resulted in police seizing some of his drugs. She “dobbed” him in because he would not give her amphetamines. He may have told people that she “dobbed” him in.

   • 2006, Ian Findley, Shared Responsibility: Beating Bullying in Australian Schools, page 67,

     Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.

2. (slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.

   We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.

   • 1968, Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher, Aliens in Their Land: The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story, page 80,

     He?d never take payment in cash for tracking, but when they dobbed in for presentations such as the fridge he accepted them shyly, abashedly, […] .

   • 1976, Margaret Paice, Colour in the Creek, page 53,

     The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool.

3. (slang, chiefly Australia) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.

   I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.

   • 1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, page 108,

     Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It?s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.

   • 2001, Kerreen M. Reiger, Sheila Kitzinger, Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement, page 153,

     Those who moved into organisational roles sometimes did it unwittingly, even unwillingly, as they were ‘dobbed’ in for tasks, succeeded and so it went on.

4. (slang, Northern Ireland) To play truant

Usage notes

(all senses): Most often used with "in" or "on".

Synonyms

• (report a person): See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant

Derived terms

• dobber

Noun

dob (plural dobs)

1. A small amount of something, especially paste.

   Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

   • 1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions),

     ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dob.

Related terms

• dab

Etymology 2

Initialism.

Noun

dob

1. Initialism of date of birth.

Alternative forms

• DOB

Etymology 3

Short for do our best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?b

Verb

dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
   • 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs (page 54)

     I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.

Anagrams

• BOD, Bod, bod

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dop]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

dob

1. genitive plural of doba

Anagrams

• bod

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dob]
• Hyphenation: dob
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *t?mp?- (“to throw down, to strike (with a clapping sound)”).

Verb

dob

2. (transitive, intransitive) to throw, to cast (to cause an object to move rapidly through the air)

   Synonyms: hajít, vet
3. (transitive, intransitive, games) to roll (to throw dice)
4. (transitive, colloquial) to dump (to end a relationship with)
5. (transitive, computing) to throw (to send an error)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dobál
• dobás

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

• piacra dob

Etymology 2

Probably an onomatopoeia.

Noun

dob (plural dobok)

2. drum (a percussive musical instrument)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Irish

Alternative forms

• dob' (superseded)

Particle

dob

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of b’

Usage notes

• This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dob?.

Noun

d?b f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. age

Declension

Related terms

• kameno doba

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dó?p/

Noun

d??b m inan

1. oak

Inflection

Synonyms

• hrást

Noun

dôb

1. genitive dual/plural of dóba

Further reading

• “dob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: d?t, IPA^(key): /d?t/
• (US) enPR: dät, IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dot, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), 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”).

Noun

dot (plural dots)

1. A small, round spot.

   a dot of colour
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.
3. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
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.
5. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
6. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
7. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

   a dot of a child

8. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
9. (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

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

Synonyms

• (small spot): speck, spot
• (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation): full stop (British), period (US), point
• (as a diacritic): tittle (over the letters i and j)
• (mathematics, in a decimal): decimal point
• (in Morse code): dit

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

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.

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

5. (colloquial) To punch (a person).

Synonyms

• stipple

Derived terms

Preposition

dot

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

   The work is equal to F dot ?x.

Coordinate terms

• cross
• ·

Translations

Etymology 2

From French dot.

Alternative forms

• dote

Noun

dot (plural dots)

1. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53

     "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.

Related terms

• dotal
• dotation

Anagrams

• DTO, ODT, OTD, TOD, Tod, tod

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dh?tim, accusative of Proto-Indo-European *dh? (“to put”). Alternatively it might represent a univerbation of do +? të.

Verb

dot

1. "Can't" in negative sentences and "can" in interrogative ones. Can be added in sentences with mund to add emphasis.

Related terms

• do
• të

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?te

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

dot m (plural dots)

1. dowry
2. gift, talent

Synonyms

• (gift): do

Further reading

• “dot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Hyphenation: dot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

dot m or f (plural dotten, diminutive dotje n)

1. a tuft, a bunch, a clump
2. (informal) a lot, a large amount

   een dot geld - a lot of money

3. cutie, something small and adorable
4. darling, sweetie (almost always used in its diminutive form - dotje)
5. a swab

Synonyms

• (cutie): kleintje
• (darling): schatje, liefje

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dos. Doublet of dose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

dot f (plural dots)

1. dowry, marriage portion

Derived terms

• coureur de dot

Further reading

• “dot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Alternative forms

• dod

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???t??/

Contraction

dot (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).

Related terms

Klamath-Modoc

Alternative forms

• tút (Gatschet)

Noun

dot

1. tooth

References

• Barker, M. A. R. (1963). Klamath Dictionary. University of California Publications in Linguistics 31. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• Gatschet, Samuel S. (1890). The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon. Volume II, Part II. United States Government Printing Office.

Latvian

Etymology

From earlier *duoti, *duotie, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *d??tei, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti (“to give”). The present tense forms are new formations, replacing the old athematic forms (still attested in dialectal forms like domu (“I give”) instead of dodu). The past tense forms are from earlier *davu (cf. Lithuanian davia?); the e was extended from the past active participle form devis (< *devens < *de-d-wens).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duôt]

Verb

dot (tr., no conj., pres. dodu, dod, dod, past devu)

1. to give (to hand to someone, so that s/he can have it)

2. to give, to provide (to allow the use of a material object, to free a place for someone else's use)

3. (colloquial) to give in marriage

4. (colloquial) to allow (e.g., a son or daughter) to work, to be employed

5. to give, to grant, to procure, to secure (a state, circumstances)

6. to give, to dedicate, to donate, to provide (at birth)

7. (dated sense) to allow, to permit

8. to give (to express orally or in writing)

9. to give (to add to a text)

10. (mathematics, usually in the past passive participle form dots) to be given, to be known from the start

11. (of physical or mental states) to give (to create, to inspire, to generate)

12. (of results, effects) to give, to provide, to be the cause (of something)

13. (of material objects, values; also of spiritual or cultural values) to give, to produce, to create

14. (colloquial) to give, to pay

15. (colloquial, a person's age, by sight) to give, to estimate as

16. (colloquial) to hit

17. (colloquial) to shoot, to give a shot

Conjugation

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• dev?js
• devums
• doties

References

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?t/

Verb

dot

1. inflection of doen:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Malay

Noun

dot (plural dot-dot, informal 1st possessive dotku, impolite 2nd possessive dotmu, 3rd possessive dotnya)

1. nipple, teat

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dugd? (compare Persian ????? (do?tar), ???? (do?t), Pashto ???? (lur), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (dug?dar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *d?ug?d?? (compare Sanskrit ?????? (duhit?), from *d?u??itr-), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ugh?t?r (compare Armenian ?????? (dustr), Greek ???????? (thygatéra), Lithuanian dukt?, Russian ???? (do??), English daughter).

Noun

dot f

1. daughter

Related terms

• dotmam
• keç
• pis

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *totë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?to?h(t)/

Determiner

d?t

1. yonder, that way over there (very far from speaker and listener)

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

d?t

1. dead

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• d?do

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: dôot
  • Dutch: dood
    • Afrikaans: dood
  • Limburgish: doead

Further reading

• “d?t”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Swedish död, Icelandic dauður.

Adjective

dot

1. dead

Volapük

Noun

dot (nominative plural dots)

1. doubt

Declension