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# dot

noun (dot, dots); verb (dot, dots, dotted — to mark with dots or to spread here and there)

«dot» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A dot is a very small round mark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#m1)
2. A dot is the point in a web or email address, said «dot». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#m2)
3. Dotted means with many small marks, or with things scattered here and there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x1)
- Draw 4 rows of 3 dots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x2)
- How many dots are on the domino? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x3)
- Join the dots in order. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x4)
- Don't forget the dot on the i. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x5)
- She has a dress with white dots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x6)
- Be there at 3 o'clock on the dot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x7)
- Houses are dotted along the hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x8)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/#x9)

### 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 Jewish tradition

In Ezekiel "doted" means loved too much and foolishly. It is used as a picture of Oholah and Oholibah, who stand for Samaria and Jerusalem, running after foreign nations. In Sefer Yetzirah dots were also a way of writing numbers.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads these verses as a picture of Israel being unfaithful to God, like a wife who loves other lovers.

### Examples

- were also symbolized by ten dots (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x1)
- The figure 1 originated apparently from a circle and a stroke, and a dot indicated a zero. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x2)
- And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. (Prophets EZK.23.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x3)
- And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors, (Prophets EZK.23.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x4)
- Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. (Prophets EZK.23.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/#x5)

### Note

Thing counted; rows × dots per row give the total. Trap: a dot can also be a decimal point in numbers like 2.5.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dot/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dot.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «dot» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dot/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dot» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/dot.html) on Mova free.