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dots

n. 1 (plural of dot English) 2 A punctuation mark consisting of three dots, indicating an omission of some text or a sentence which wasn't fully finished, an ellipsis. vb. (en-third-person singular of: dot)

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DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course)
DOTS redirects here. For the medical mnemonic, see DOTS (mnemonic).

DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course) is the name given to the tuberculosis control strategy recommended by the World Health Organization. According to WHO, "The most cost-effective way to stop the spread of TB in communities with a high incidence is by curing it. The best curative method for TB is known as DOTS." DOTS has five main components:

  • Government commitment (including political will at all levels, and establishment of a centralized and prioritized system of TB monitoring, recording and training).
  • Case detection by sputum smear microscopy.
  • Standardized treatment regimen directly of six to nine months observed by a healthcare worker or community health worker for at least the first two months.
  • A drug supply.
  • A standardized recording and reporting system that allows assessment of treatment results.
Dots

Dots is the plural of dot.

Dots may also refer to:

  • Dots (candy), produced by Tootsie Roll Industries
  • Dots and Boxes, a pencil and paper game for two or more players
  • Dots (game) - another pencil and paper game
  • Dots (video game) - a 2013 mobile game produced by Betaworks
  • Connect the dots, or dot to dots, a paper puzzle containing a sequence of numbered dots
  • "Dots", a 1940 short animated film by Norman McLaren
  • "Dots" or "Dot Dot Dot", Singlish slang denoting speechlessness, from Japanese manga
  • Dot-S, a toy released in Japan
  • Paul Kelly and the Dots (1978–1982), an Australian rock band fronted by Paul Kelly

DOTS may be an acronym for:

  • Directly Observed Therapy - Short Course, a World Health Organisation acryonym
  • Damage over time, a term used in some popular MMORPG games
  • Difference of two squares, a mathematical term
  • DOTS (mnemonic), a memory aid used in basic First Aid
Dots (candy)

Dots, or Mason Dots (trademarked DOTS), are a brand of gum drops marketed by Tootsie Roll Industries, which claims that "since its 1945 launch," the candy has become "America's...#1 selling gumdrop brand." According to advertisements, more than four billion dots are produced from the Tootsie Roll Industries Chicago plant each year.

According to PETA, Dots are vegan, and according to the Tootsie Roll Industries website, they are gluten-free, nut-free, peanut-free, and kosher (officially certified kosher by the Orthodox Union as of December 1, 2009).

Dots (game)

Dots is an abstract strategy game, played by two or more people on a sheet of squared paper. The game is superficially similar to Go, except that pieces are not taken, and the primary target of dots is capturing enemy dots by surrounding them with a continuous line of one's own dots. Once surrounded, dots are not playable.

Dots (video game)

Dots is a free mobile game produced by Betaworks and developed at Playdots, Inc.. It was released on April 30, 2013 for iOS and on August 15, 2013 for Android. It has both a single player and online multiplayer modes. A single-player sequel, TwoDots, was released on May 29, 2014.

Dots was initially produced as a test project examining user interaction with the iOS interface. Within a week after release, it was downloaded more than 1 million times and was the top free app in eight countries. Within two weeks, it had been downloaded 2 million times and users had played approximately 100 million games.

Usage examples of "dots".

She would have examined the unusually clear glass beneath her feet, but the darkness beyond, accented by distant dots of light, brought the panic back in a surge.

Commander Quentin was staring at was no longer filled with discrete little red dots but rather with large circles.

Once stopped the dots would grow to circles, ever wider, making the task of finding the subs all the more difficult.

On this, some two and a half miles or three miles off, a little group of black dots had appeared.

Up there where the shrapnel was spurting and the great lyddite shells crashing they could dimly see a line of bearded faces and the black dots of the slouch hats.

A fine grid of red lights, no larger than dots, was shown off the coast, as if some current in the screen were knitting, or marking a school register.

He read pages of Braille printing, the system of upraised dots designed for the blind, to sharpen his sense of touch.

Small red dots indicated where armed patrolmen were stationed, and thin red lines showed the patterns they walked.

There were scarlet wingfingers, green wingfingers, copper wingfingers, white ones, black ones, ones with striped bodies and ones freckled with colored dots, but nowhere was there one that was purple.

Beneath the big circle was a series of three small dots, then three big dots, and finally two more small dots.

The three small dots close to it represented the inner rocky worlds of Carpel, Patpel, and Davpel.

The string of big dots were the three gas-giant worlds, Kevpel, the Face of God, and Bripel.

And the final sequence of two small dots was the outer rocky world of .

There were the strange bipedal reptiles again: the string of dots indicated that they lived on the fourth planet of a system of eleven worlds.

The rosette of dots jumped in its egg-shaped orbit around the moon, moving clockwise.