Dolt vs. Dot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dolt and Dot
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Definitions
Dolt
A stupid person.
Dot
A small round mark or spot
A symbol depicted in coloured dots
Dolt
A stupid person; a dunce.
Dot
A dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband.
Dolt
(pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
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Dot
Mark with a small spot or spots
Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt
Dolt
(obsolete) To behave foolishly.
Dot
Hit (someone)
‘You want to dot him one,’ he said
Dolt
A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt.
Dot
A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot.
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Dolt
To behave foolishly.
Dot
Such a mark used in orthography, as above an i.
Dolt
A person who is not very bright;
The economy, stupid!
Dot
The basic unit of composition for an image produced by a device that prints text or graphics on paper
A resolution of 900 dots per inch.
Dot
A tiny amount.
Dot
In Morse and similar codes, the short sound or signal used in combination with the dash and silent intervals to represent letters, numbers, or punctuation.
Dot
A decimal point.
Dot
A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8.
Dot
(Music) A mark after a note indicating an increase in time value by half.
Dot
(Computers) A period, as used as in URLs and email addresses, to separate strings of words, as in www.hmhco.com.
Dot
A woman's marriage portion; a dowry.
Dot
To mark with a dot.
Dot
To form or make with dots.
Dot
To cover with or as if with dots
"Campfires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night" (Stephen Crane).
Dot
To make a dot.
Dot
A small, round spot.
A dot of colour
Dot
(grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
Dot
A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
Dot
(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.
Dot
One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
Dot
(obsolete) A lump or clot.
Dot
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
A dot of a child
Dot
A dot ball.
Dot
(MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
Dot
(MLE) dotty
Dot
A dowry.
Dot
(transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
Dot
(transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
Dot your is and cross your ts.
Dot
To mark by means of dots or small spots.
To dot a line
Dot
To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
To dot a landscape with cottages
Dot
(colloquial) To punch (a person).
Dot
Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
The work is equal to F dot Δx.
Dot
A marriage portion; dowry.
Dot
A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
Dot
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
Dot
To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
Dot
To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
Dot
To make dots or specks.
Dot
The United States Department of Transportation.
Dot
A very small circular shape;
A row of points
Draw lines between the dots
Dot
The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
Dot
The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
Dot
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Dot
Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs;
Hills constellated with lights
Dot
Distribute loosely;
He scattered gun powder under the wagon
Dot
Make a dot or dots
Dot
Mark with a dot;
Dot your `i's
