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Cot vs. Dot — What's the Difference?

Cot vs. Dot — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cot and Dot

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Cot

A narrow bed, especially one made of canvas on a collapsible frame.

Dot

A small round mark or spot
A symbol depicted in coloured dots

Cot

Chiefly British A crib.

Dot

A dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband.

Cot

A small house.
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Dot

Mark with a small spot or spots
Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt

Cot

A protective covering or sheath.

Dot

Hit (someone)
‘You want to dot him one,’ he said

Cot

A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

Dot

A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot.

Cot

A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

Dot

Such a mark used in orthography, as above an i.

Cot

A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Dot

The basic unit of composition for an image produced by a device that prints text or graphics on paper
A resolution of 900 dots per inch.

Cot

(archaic) A cottage or small homestead.

Dot

A tiny amount.

Cot

A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.

Dot

In Morse and similar codes, the short sound or signal used in combination with the dash and silent intervals to represent letters, numbers, or punctuation.

Cot

A small, crudely-formed boat.

Dot

A decimal point.

Cot

A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
A roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
A cot for a sore finger

Dot

A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8.

Cot

(obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.

Dot

(Music) A mark after a note indicating an increase in time value by half.

Cot

A small house; a cottage or hut.
The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm.

Dot

(Computers) A period, as used as in URLs and email addresses, to separate strings of words, as in www.hmhco.com.

Cot

A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

Dot

A woman's marriage portion; a dowry.

Cot

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. See also finger cot.

Dot

To mark with a dot.

Cot

A small, rudely-formed boat.

Dot

To form or make with dots.

Cot

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

Dot

To cover with or as if with dots
"Campfires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night" (Stephen Crane).

Cot

A sheath worn to protect a finger

Dot

To make a dot.

Cot

Baby bed with high sides

Dot

A small, round spot.
A dot of colour

Cot

A small bed that folds up for storage or transport

Dot

(grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

Dot

A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

Dot

(mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.

Dot

One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

Dot

(obsolete) A lump or clot.

Dot

Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
A dot of a child

Dot

A dot ball.

Dot

(MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

Dot

(MLE) dotty

Dot

A dowry.

Dot

(transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

Dot

(transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
Dot your is and cross your ts.

Dot

To mark by means of dots or small spots.
To dot a line

Dot

To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
To dot a landscape with cottages

Dot

(colloquial) To punch (a person).

Dot

Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
The work is equal to F dot Δx.

Dot

A marriage portion; dowry.

Dot

A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.

Dot

Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.

Dot

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

Dot

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

Dot

To make dots or specks.

Dot

The United States Department of Transportation.

Dot

A very small circular shape;
A row of points
Draw lines between the dots

Dot

The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

Dot

The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code

Dot

Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

Dot

Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs;
Hills constellated with lights

Dot

Distribute loosely;
He scattered gun powder under the wagon

Dot

Make a dot or dots

Dot

Mark with a dot;
Dot your `i's

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