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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