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Dotted

Dotted \Dot"ted\, a. Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.

Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes.

Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.

Note: Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted.

Dotted

Dot \Dot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dotting.]

  1. To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.

  2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.

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dotted
  1. Of a line, made up of a series of dots. v

  2. (en-pastdot)

WordNet
dot
  1. n. a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots" [syn: point]

  2. the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966 [syn: Department of Transportation, Transportation]

  3. the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: dit]

  4. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen]

  5. [also: dotting, dotted]

dotted
  1. adj. having a pattern of dots [syn: flecked, specked, speckled, stippled]

  2. having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line" [syn: dashed]

dot
  1. v. scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights" [syn: stud, constellate]

  2. distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon" [syn: scatter, sprinkle, dust, disperse]

  3. make a dot or dots

  4. mark with a dot; "dot your `i's"

  5. [also: dotting, dotted]

dotted

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Usage examples of "dotted".

As I looked from the albergo I could see a gradation of colours, from the purple red to the deepest of sea blue, rising like an immense tent from the dark green of the trees and the fields, here and there dotted with little white houses, with their red roofs, while in front the Luzzara Tower rose majestically in the twilight.

Most of them had been happy to just sign on the dotted line, content to move to a life of ambitionless ease.

Alan, who was sending the dotted line scurrying back and forth across the azimuth display.

Behind her back, the tincture-squaddies dotted across the billard table attempted to look as much like inanimate tin soldiers as possible, considering they were all dressed in kilts.

Far beyond the bridge he could see Brio Bay sparkling in the afternoon Tight, its blue-green waters dotted with white skimboats.

We followed the other buses over a bridge and into a bleaker landscape, dryer, stonier, with less vegetation, just scattered thorn-bushes for the most part, dotted across low but steep and irregular hills.

They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms.

South of the well-known island of Java, and separated by a strait, these mappamundi exhibit an extensive continent, stretching southward, and the north coast of which is dotted with numerous designations of dangerous coasts, capes, rivers, and landing places.

If to--day it flaunted its tower, its summer-houses, its outbuildings, in tints that the French so well call criard, one might be sure that tomorrow the dark Murray pines, the broad-leafed Moreton Bay fig tree, the inevitable Pinus insignis that dotted the lawn in front of the house, would interpose their rich sombre green between your vision and the brightness of colouring that offended it.

The horde spread out to Datal and rode down the farms that dotted the low hills.

At this point the continents split and rapidly separated east and west, leaving a green ocean between their land legs, dotted with several large islands and driblets of isles in the southern hemisphere.

Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.

We left the exurban research and office parks and came into a fairly flat stretch of farm country dotted with ancient oak trees.

When the level prairie merged into low rolling hills, dotted with fescue and feather grass and red with the richness of iron ore -- the red ochre making it hallowed ground -- Brun knew the salt marsh was not far beyond.

It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches, and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.