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dot

noun as in tiny mark, drop

verb as in make spot(s)

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Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.

Above the notes of praise is a small photo of Guerin wearing a polka dot tie and pocket square, staring at you like a sociopath.

It was there, in small type, hosted on some dot-edu domain, looking the way websites did in the mid-1990s.

Picasso, with his polka-dot shirt and clashing tie attempted an air of bravado, but lost confidence by the minute.

He drew a series of concentric circles on a page with a single dot—Robert Moses—in the center.

Though Caroline only brought with her a dot of forty thousand francs, she stood for what was better still, immense possibilities.

A dot or two, sometimes only one, sometimes as many as five, are thrown in as a rough way of indicating the features.

Typical "segmenters" present a ring of rounded segments or spores, each with a small, dot-like chromatin mass.

At three thousand yards a man appears as a mere dot, which is not readily distinguishable.

All the way the scenery is pretty, but with no very striking features, and villas dot the roadside for a considerable distance.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dot, such as: dab, droplet, fleck, speck, atom, and circle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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