different between dot vs dash

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dw?s?an (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also adwesch, dush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

dash (plural dashes)

1. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ? (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ? (horizontal bar).
   1. (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
2. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
3. A short run, flight.

4. A rushing or violent onset.
5. Violent strike; a whack.

6. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

   Add a dash of vinegar.

7. (figuratively, by extension) A slight admixture.

   There is a dash of craziness in his personality.

8. Ostentatious vigor.

   Aren't we full of dash this morning?

9. A dashboard.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 31:

     The dash clock said 2:38 when […] I turned off a dirt road […] .

10. (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
    • 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)

      The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.

    • 2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)

      Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law […]

    • 2008, Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)

      The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.

11. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
    • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118

      Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.

      Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.

    • 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524

      Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?

Hypernyms

• punctuation mark

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:dash

Derived terms

• dashing
• (typography): em dash, en dash
• (dashboard): dashcam, dash cam

Translations

See also

Punctuation

Verb

dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)

1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
2. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.

   I have to dash now. See you soon.

3. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).

   He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 4

     Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.

4. (transitive) To throw violently.

   The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

   • If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.

5. (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To sprinkle; to splatter.

   • On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.

   • The very source and fount of day / Is dash'd with wandering isles of night.
6. (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.

   to dash wine with water

7. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

   Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
8. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.

   Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

9. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.

   He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework

10. (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

      "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.

    • 2003, Robert Andrews, A Murder of Promise (page 198)

      Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.

Derived terms

• dash off
• gas and dash

Translations

Interjection

dash

1. (euphemistic) Damn!

Translations

See also

• hyphen
• minus sign

Anagrams

• ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, shad

Albanian

Etymology

Disputed. Potentially from Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eusóm (compare English deer, Lithuanian da?sos (“upper air; heaven”)). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *dalša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?-l- (compare Ossetian ?????? (dalis?, “young lamb”)).

Noun

dash m (indefinite plural desh, definite singular dashi, definite plural deshtë)

1. ram (male sheep)

Derived terms

• Dash
• Dashnor

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dash

Noun

dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dasher, definite plural dashene)

1. a dash (small amount)
2. short for dashbord.

References

• “dash” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dash

Noun

dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dashar, definite plural dashane)

1. a dash (small amount)
2. short for dashbord.

References

• “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ojibwe

Alternative forms

• idash
• -sh

Adverb

dash

1. and, and then, then

2. but

Usage notes

dash comes in the second position in a clause, indicating that one thing happened after another. It can also have a contrastive meaning and then may be translated with but.

Derived terms

• aaniin dash (“why?”)
• mii dash (“and then”)

See also

• aanawi (“although, but”)
• apii (“then”)
• gaye (“as for, also”)
• miinawaa (“and again”)

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dash-adv-conj