Dot vs. Dob — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dot and Dob
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Dot
A small round mark or spot
A symbol depicted in coloured dots
Dob
To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
I’ll dob on you if you break in.
You dobbed me in! — I never did!
Dot
A dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband.
Dob
To do one's share; to contribute.
We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
Dot
Mark with a small spot or spots
Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt
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Dob
To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.
I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
Dot
Hit (someone)
‘You want to dot him one,’ he said
Dob
To play truant
Dot
A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot.
Dob
In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
Dot
Such a mark used in orthography, as above an i.
Dob
A small amount of something, especially paste.
Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
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.
Dob
Initialism of date of birth
Dot
A tiny amount.
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.
Dot
A decimal point.
Dot
A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8.
Dot
(Music) A mark after a note indicating an increase in time value by half.
Dot
(Computers) A period, as used as in URLs and email addresses, to separate strings of words, as in www.hmhco.com.
Dot
A woman's marriage portion; a dowry.
Dot
To mark with a dot.
Dot
To form or make with dots.
Dot
To cover with or as if with dots
"Campfires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night" (Stephen Crane).
Dot
To make a dot.
Dot
A small, round spot.
A dot of colour
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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