Dolt vs. Dot — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dolt and Dot
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Dolt
A stupid person.
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Dot
A small round mark or spot
A symbol depicted in coloured dots
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Dolt
A stupid person; a dunce.
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Dot
A dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband.
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Dolt
(pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
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Dot
Mark with a small spot or spots
Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt
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Dolt
(obsolete) To behave foolishly.
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Dot
Hit (someone)
‘You want to dot him one,’ he said
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Dolt
A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt.
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Dot
A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot.
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Dolt
To behave foolishly.
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Dot
Such a mark used in orthography, as above an i.
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Dolt
A person who is not very bright;
The economy, stupid!
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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.
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Dot
A tiny amount.
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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.
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Dot
A decimal point.
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Dot
A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8.
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Dot
(Music) A mark after a note indicating an increase in time value by half.
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Dot
(Computers) A period, as used as in URLs and email addresses, to separate strings of words, as in www.hmhco.com.
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Dot
A woman's marriage portion; a dowry.
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Dot
To mark with a dot.
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Dot
To form or make with dots.
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Dot
To cover with or as if with dots
"Campfires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night" (Stephen Crane).
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Dot
To make a dot.
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Dot
A small, round spot.
A dot of colour
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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.
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Dot
A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
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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.
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Dot
One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
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Dot
(obsolete) A lump or clot.
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Dot
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
A dot of a child
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Dot
A dot ball.
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Dot
(MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
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Dot
(MLE) dotty
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Dot
A dowry.
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Dot
(transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
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Dot
(transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
Dot your is and cross your ts.
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Dot
To mark by means of dots or small spots.
To dot a line
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Dot
To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
To dot a landscape with cottages
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Dot
(colloquial) To punch (a person).
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Dot
Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
The work is equal to F dot Δx.
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Dot
A marriage portion; dowry.
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Dot
A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
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Dot
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
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Dot
To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
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Dot
To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
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Dot
To make dots or specks.
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Dot
The United States Department of Transportation.
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Dot
A very small circular shape;
A row of points
Draw lines between the dots
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Dot
The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
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Dot
The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
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Dot
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
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Dot
Scatter or intersperse like dots or studs;
Hills constellated with lights
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Dot
Distribute loosely;
He scattered gun powder under the wagon
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Dot
Make a dot or dots
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Dot
Mark with a dot;
Dot your `i's
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