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jot

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note [syn: jotting ] a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" [syn: touch , hint , tinge , mite , pinch , speck , soupcon ] [also: jotting , jotted ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, borrowing of Latin jota , variant spelling of Greek iota "the letter -i-," the smallest letter in the alphabet, hence the least part of anything (see iota ).

Usage examples of jot.

When she saw Aileron advancing on her, though, she displayed not a jot of fear.

He drew a pen from his pocket, used it to jot aquick shorthand of symbols and letters on each of the six facesof the Box.

He had already been chosen by five Alphas and two Betas, but that was a fraction of how many Shard and Jot had done.

Mountjoy was murdered, and the fact that Bing chooses to be pigheaded has not altered my opinion one jot.

Mr Gardner, minister of Birse, in Aberdeenshire, known for his humour and musical talents, was one evening playing over on his Cremona the notes of an air he had previously jotted down, when a curious scene arrested his attention in the courtyard of the manse.

Whenever he noticed that, Egremont would pause a little and repeat in simpler form what he had been saying, with the satisfactory result that Bunce showed a clearer face and jotted something on his dirty note-book with his stumpy pencil.

Without asking her permission, he jotted down her description of the Change War and her questions on a tablet using an impacted system of diacritical marks.

He had even jotted down a few notes about her for future reference, thinking she would make a fascinating heroine with her mix of fragility and strength.

Cassie had already drawn up a pad and was jotting notes quickly enough to shake the googly eyes of the monster at the tip of the pen.

By the pillow, jotted down on a piece of paper were his last haiku, written during the final moments of his life - indeed the handwriting on the paper copy grows feebler towards its close.

He never spoke about that, but I often imagined him as a boy in his small Idaho town, lonely, half-orphaned, sitting up at night, spinning the dials and listening to the jits and jots of Morse code, the static-scratched voices in other languages.

Jotting some notes to himself on the pad, Nestler stopped abruptly and looked back at her.

Although Nevyn had always had the Sight, it came and went of its own will, showing him what it chose to show and not a jot more.

As the meeting began to melt away in my inner eardrone-fests, I called these Friday affairsI jotted down my version of the memo Weede would compose when poor Warburton died.

Some day, if Brat had anything to do with it, Timber was going to feel very small indeed, but meanwhile let Simon have at his command every jot of that lordly assurance.