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Dotting

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.

Wiktionary
dotting

n. A dotted pattern; a speckling. vb. (present participle of dot English)

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]

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]

dotting

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Usage examples of "dotting".

Digna, meanwhile, turned her attention to the clusters of old men and young boys dotting the pasture.

Quijana fought down the urge to vomit at the finely sprayed blood and chunks of skull and brains dotting the back wall of the trench.

Nonetheless, Ziramoth looked at the dozens of oozing sores dotting the Kessentai's torso and resolved to at least try.

Though dressed as regally as any monarch, he was nonetheless obviously an ogre, with warts and scabs dotting his wide, tanned face.

Most had warts and boils dotting their exposed skin, the rain plastering their scraggly hair to the sides of their heads.

The halfling looked back over his shoulder at the dozens of low wooden cabins dotting the thick rows of trees that comprised Lonelywood.

Both men sported regalia: Phi Beta Kappa key for the lawyer, lodge pins dotting the cop’s lapels.

The hut’s interior was dank: folding chairs aligned in uneven rows, cigarette butts dotting a chipped linoleum floor, pictures from Downbeat and Metronome scotch-taped to the walls--half white guys, half Negroes, like the management was trying to establish jazzbo parity.

Now some of the dignitaries dotting the slopes seemed to have begun to notice him.

The blossoming trees, pear and apple, were lovely, and the woods through which we traveled were bursting with buds, bluebells and daisies dotting the ground beneath us.

Through its broad window Jamie could see adobe-style town houses dotting the slopes that ran down to the city.

Jamie worked his way around a conical pit, a meteor strike that looked shining new compared to the more weathered craters dotting the ground.

He dreamed of Navaho hogans dotting the barren desert of Mars and of splendidly feathered gods descending from the heavens on pillars of fire.

Jamie felt rivulets trickling down his ribs and beads of perspiration dotting his forehead and upper lip.

The glass looks like the Fiasco windscreen after a thousand-mile drive, stained with the blackened blood of insects nine hundred miles ago, the dottings of soot, the fingerprints of filthy phantoms.