dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/dot_MW.json

{
  "Doto":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of nudibranch mollusks with tuberculated cerata":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin Doto , a sea nymph, from Greek D\u014dt\u014d":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u014dt(\u02cc)\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130039",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "dot":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bestrew",
      "pepper",
      "scatter",
      "sow",
      "spot",
      "spray",
      "sprinkle",
      "strew"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a centered point used as a multiplication sign (as in 6 \u00b7 5 = 30)":[],
      ": a point after a note or rest in music indicating augmentation of the time value by one half":[],
      ": a point over or under a note indicating that it is to be played staccato":[],
      ": a point used to separate components of an address on the Internet":[],
      ": a precise point especially in time":[
        "arrived at six on the dot"
      ],
      ": a short click or buzz forming a letter or part of a letter (as in the Morse code)":[],
      ": a small point made with a pointed instrument":[
        "a dot on the chart marked the ship's position"
      ],
      ": a small round mark used in orthography or punctuation":[
        "put a dot over the i"
      ],
      ": a small round mark: such as":[],
      ": a small spot : speck":[],
      ": dowry sense 1":[],
      ": to intersperse with dots or objects scattered at random":[
        "boats dotting the lake"
      ],
      ": to make a dot":[],
      ": to mark with a dot":[],
      "Department of Transportation":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't forget to dot the i .",
      "Quaint cottages dot the countryside.",
      "The fields were dotted with wildflowers.",
      "Dot the cream all over your face."
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1596, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1740, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Latin dot-, dos dowry":"Noun",
      "Middle English *dot , from Old English dott head of a boil; akin to Old High German tutta nipple":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u022ft",
      "\u02c8d\u00e4t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blotch",
      "dapple",
      "eyespot",
      "fleck",
      "mottle",
      "patch",
      "pip",
      "point",
      "speck",
      "speckle",
      "splotch",
      "spot"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091702",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "dot matrix":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a pattern of dots in a grid from which alphanumeric characters can be formed":[
        "a dot matrix printer"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "While acknowledging the limited uses for a tiny HDMI PC monitor, maker mitxela had the urge to get a 128\u00d768 dot matrix OLED screen up and running as a PC monitor that connects directly to its system. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "The man took Andrea Cincotta\u2019s computer and her dot matrix printer, loaded into his truck and then resumed working on the apartment building\u2019s mailboxes. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Nov. 2021",
      "With soft and high elastic earloop, the metal adjustable nose clip bridge, and the dot matrix welding. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 4 Mar. 2021",
      "It\u2019s a dot matrix design complete with a TIE fighter and AT-AT. \u2014 Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored , 25 Sep. 2020",
      "Each box is printed with a special dot matrix pattern, so customers can cut, fold, and reassemble it into a new piece. \u2014 Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful , 9 Apr. 2020",
      "Pinball has since rolled with the trends and technologies of the day, evolving from scores displayed with analog numbers on rotating reels to digital numerals and circuit boards, later incorporating dot matrix screens and now LCD displays. \u2014 San Antonio Express-News , 5 Mar. 2020",
      "The text looks a lot like a dot matrix format from the 60s and 70s, and that's for a good reason. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 3 July 2018",
      "Payments are made by Quick Response (QR) codes, the square black-and-white dot matrices that have become ubiquitous in China. \u2014 The Economist , 3 May 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1963, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113649",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "dote (on)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to give a lot of love or attention to (someone or something)":[
        "She doted on her new grandchild."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032021",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ]
  },
  "dotlet":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small dot":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "dot entry 1 + -let":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u00e4tl\u0259\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124950",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "dotted":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bestrew",
      "pepper",
      "scatter",
      "sow",
      "spot",
      "spray",
      "sprinkle",
      "strew"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a centered point used as a multiplication sign (as in 6 \u00b7 5 = 30)":[],
      ": a point after a note or rest in music indicating augmentation of the time value by one half":[],
      ": a point over or under a note indicating that it is to be played staccato":[],
      ": a point used to separate components of an address on the Internet":[],
      ": a precise point especially in time":[
        "arrived at six on the dot"
      ],
      ": a short click or buzz forming a letter or part of a letter (as in the Morse code)":[],
      ": a small point made with a pointed instrument":[
        "a dot on the chart marked the ship's position"
      ],
      ": a small round mark used in orthography or punctuation":[
        "put a dot over the i"
      ],
      ": a small round mark: such as":[],
      ": a small spot : speck":[],
      ": dowry sense 1":[],
      ": to intersperse with dots or objects scattered at random":[
        "boats dotting the lake"
      ],
      ": to make a dot":[],
      ": to mark with a dot":[],
      "Department of Transportation":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't forget to dot the i .",
      "Quaint cottages dot the countryside.",
      "The fields were dotted with wildflowers.",
      "Dot the cream all over your face."
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1596, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1740, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Latin dot-, dos dowry":"Noun",
      "Middle English *dot , from Old English dott head of a boil; akin to Old High German tutta nipple":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u022ft",
      "\u02c8d\u00e4t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blotch",
      "dapple",
      "eyespot",
      "fleck",
      "mottle",
      "patch",
      "pip",
      "point",
      "speck",
      "speckle",
      "splotch",
      "spot"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072056",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "dottiness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "judicious",
      "prudent",
      "sagacious",
      "sage",
      "sane",
      "sapient",
      "sensible",
      "sound",
      "wise"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": amiably eccentric":[
        "a dotty old relative"
      ],
      ": amusingly absurd : ridiculous":[
        "dotty traditions"
      ],
      ": being obsessed or infatuated":[
        "dotty fans"
      ],
      ": composed of or marked by dots":[],
      ": mentally unbalanced : crazy":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "1860, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of Scots dottle fool, from Middle English dotel , from doten":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u00e4-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "absurd",
      "asinine",
      "balmy",
      "brainless",
      "bubbleheaded",
      "cockeyed",
      "crackpot",
      "crazy",
      "cuckoo",
      "daffy",
      "daft",
      "dippy",
      "fatuous",
      "featherheaded",
      "fool",
      "foolish",
      "half-baked",
      "half-witted",
      "harebrained",
      "inept",
      "insane",
      "jerky",
      "kooky",
      "kookie",
      "loony",
      "looney",
      "lunatic",
      "lunkheaded",
      "mad",
      "nonsensical",
      "nutty",
      "preposterous",
      "sappy",
      "screwball",
      "senseless",
      "silly",
      "simpleminded",
      "stupid",
      "tomfool",
      "unwise",
      "wacky",
      "whacky",
      "weak-minded",
      "witless",
      "zany"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031228",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "dotty":{
    "antonyms":[
      "judicious",
      "prudent",
      "sagacious",
      "sage",
      "sane",
      "sapient",
      "sensible",
      "sound",
      "wise"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": amiably eccentric":[
        "a dotty old relative"
      ],
      ": amusingly absurd : ridiculous":[
        "dotty traditions"
      ],
      ": being obsessed or infatuated":[
        "dotty fans"
      ],
      ": composed of or marked by dots":[],
      ": mentally unbalanced : crazy":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "1860, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of Scots dottle fool, from Middle English dotel , from doten":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u00e4-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "absurd",
      "asinine",
      "balmy",
      "brainless",
      "bubbleheaded",
      "cockeyed",
      "crackpot",
      "crazy",
      "cuckoo",
      "daffy",
      "daft",
      "dippy",
      "fatuous",
      "featherheaded",
      "fool",
      "foolish",
      "half-baked",
      "half-witted",
      "harebrained",
      "inept",
      "insane",
      "jerky",
      "kooky",
      "kookie",
      "loony",
      "looney",
      "lunatic",
      "lunkheaded",
      "mad",
      "nonsensical",
      "nutty",
      "preposterous",
      "sappy",
      "screwball",
      "senseless",
      "silly",
      "simpleminded",
      "stupid",
      "tomfool",
      "unwise",
      "wacky",
      "whacky",
      "weak-minded",
      "witless",
      "zany"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065639",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "dotage":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u014d-tij",
      "\u02c8d\u014dt-ij"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "caducity",
      "second childhood",
      "senility"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "he's now in that stage of his dotage where he has trouble remembering the simplest things",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Trevorrow is able to mine from individual action sequences, how tame even T. rex now seems in its late-franchise dotage . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
      "Matisse is a taste that has, even in my dotage , escaped me. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Maybe one day Joe Biden\u2019s Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan will offer a similar concession in her dotage . \u2014 WSJ , 27 Aug. 2021",
      "The Angels have spent more than that on Albert Pujols\u2019 dotage . \u2014 Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News , 3 Mar. 2021",
      "And those like myself: moderate to intense sports fans ranging in age from adolescence to early dotage . \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine , 15 Sep. 2020",
      "Petty\u2019s best music doesn\u2019t age into dotage like so many of his contemporaries. \u2014 Michael Washburn, Longreads , 9 July 2019",
      "The street has four dowager homes, several well into their dotage . \u2014 Michael Powell, New York Times , 7 June 2018",
      "Three years later, my friend still believes that Harper Lee was tricked, in her dotage , into shredding the image of perhaps the only white Alabamian other than Helen Keller to be admired around the world. \u2014 Howell Raines, New York Times , 18 June 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from doten to dote":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212301"
  },
  "dotterel":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u00e4-tr\u0259l",
      "\u02c8d\u00e4-t\u0259-r\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English dotrelle , irregular from doten to dote":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232010"
  },
  "dot product":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": scalar product":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "dot entry 1 ; from its being commonly written A \u00b7 B":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1901, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030031"
  },
  "dotriacontane":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6d\u014d\u02cctr\u012b\u0259\u02c8k\u00e4n\u2027\u02cct\u0101n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary dotriacont- (from do- \u2014as in dodeca-\u2014+ triacont- \u2014from Greek triakonta thirty) + -ane":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043504"
  },
  "dottle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": unburned and partially burned tobacco in the bowl of a pipe":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u022f-",
      "\u02c8d\u00e4-t\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English dottel plug, from Middle English *dot":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1825, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054727"
  },
  "DOT":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small spot : speck":[],
      ": a small round mark: such as":[],
      ": a small point made with a pointed instrument":[
        "a dot on the chart marked the ship's position"
      ],
      ": a small round mark used in orthography or punctuation":[
        "put a dot over the i"
      ],
      ": a centered point used as a multiplication sign (as in 6 \u00b7 5 = 30)":[],
      ": a point after a note or rest in music indicating augmentation of the time value by one half":[],
      ": a point over or under a note indicating that it is to be played staccato":[],
      ": a precise point especially in time":[
        "arrived at six on the dot"
      ],
      ": a short click or buzz forming a letter or part of a letter (as in the Morse code)":[],
      ": a point used to separate components of an address on the Internet":[],
      ": to mark with a dot":[],
      ": to intersperse with dots or objects scattered at random":[
        "boats dotting the lake"
      ],
      ": to make a dot":[],
      ": dowry sense 1":[],
      "Department of Transportation":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u022ft",
      "\u02c8d\u00e4t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "blotch",
      "dapple",
      "eyespot",
      "fleck",
      "mottle",
      "patch",
      "pip",
      "point",
      "speck",
      "speckle",
      "splotch",
      "spot"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "bestrew",
      "pepper",
      "scatter",
      "sow",
      "spot",
      "spray",
      "sprinkle",
      "strew"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Don't forget to dot the i .",
      "Quaint cottages dot the countryside.",
      "The fields were dotted with wildflowers.",
      "Dot the cream all over your face."
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English *dot , from Old English dott head of a boil; akin to Old High German tutta nipple":"Noun",
      "French, from Latin dot-, dos dowry":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1596, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "circa 1740, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071321"
  },
  "dottle pin":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small plug or pin of burned fireclay used to separate articles during firing":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "dottle entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073543"
  },
  "dot-com":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u00e4t-\u02cck\u00e4m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from the use of .com in the URLs of such companies":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1994, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133252"
  },
  "dotard":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person in his or her dotage":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u014dt-\u0259rd",
      "\u02c8d\u014d-t\u0259rd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But Biden did accomplish one thing, at least: Russia's pro-Kremlin media no longer views him as a dotard . \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 17 June 2021",
      "Gary Chryst, the most admired artist of the Joffrey Ballet of yore appearing with Ballet Theater as a guest, makes Dodon a rivetingly doting dotard . \u2014 Alastair Macaulay, New York Times , 7 June 2016"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-135332"
  },
  "dotant":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": dotard sense 1a":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "dote entry 1 + -ant":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-142710"
  },
  "dot-commer":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person who owns or works for a dot-com":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8d\u00e4t-\u02cck\u00e4-m\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1997, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160752"
  },
  "dotseed plantain":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": dwarf plantain sense 2":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-192718"
  },
  "dot-and-dash":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": formed of or as if of alternating dots and dashes":[
        "run a dot-and-dash line across the sheet"
      ],
      ": consisting of or using an alphabet made up of dots and dashes as signals for communicating":[
        "secret conversations by means of long and short muscular movements in the Morse dot-and-dash system"
      ],
      ": to mark with a succession of dots and dashes":[],
      ": to convey by means of a dot-and-dash system":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\""
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-221644"
  },
  "dotted swiss":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a sheer light muslin ornamented with evenly spaced raised dots":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Patterns like dotted swiss , grosgrain, and rickrack are turned on their heads in preppy neons and saturated jewel tones. \u2014 Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor , 26 May 2022",
      "There was Ansel Elgort in a white tux and Jared Leto in black gloves and dotted swiss . \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 3 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
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      "1886, in the meaning defined above":""
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