different between dot vs trifle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: d?t, IPA^(key): /d?t/
• (US) enPR: dät, IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dot, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).

Noun

dot (plural dots)

1. A small, round spot.

   a dot of colour
2. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
3. A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
4. (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.
5. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
6. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
7. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

   a dot of a child

8. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
9. (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun

10. (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).

Synonyms

• (small spot): speck, spot
• (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation): full stop (British), period (US), point
• (as a diacritic): tittle (over the letters i and j)
• (mathematics, in a decimal): decimal point
• (in Morse code): dit

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

dot (third-person singular simple present dots, present participle dotting, simple past and past participle dotted)

1. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

   His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

2. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

   Dot your is and cross your ts.

3. To mark by means of dots or small spots.

   to dot a line

4. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

   to dot a landscape with cottages

5. (colloquial) To punch (a person).

Synonyms

• stipple

Derived terms

Preposition

dot

1. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.

   The work is equal to F dot ?x.

Coordinate terms

• cross
• ·

Translations

Etymology 2

From French dot.

Alternative forms

• dote

Noun

dot (plural dots)

1. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53

     "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.

     "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot."

   • 1927, Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman:

     As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.

Related terms

• dotal
• dotation

Anagrams

• DTO, ODT, OTD, TOD, Tod, tod

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dh?tim, accusative of Proto-Indo-European *dh? (“to put”). Alternatively it might represent a univerbation of do +? të.

Verb

dot

1. "Can't" in negative sentences and "can" in interrogative ones. Can be added in sentences with mund to add emphasis.

Related terms

• do
• të

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?te

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

dot m (plural dots)

1. dowry
2. gift, talent

Synonyms

• (gift): do

Further reading

• “dot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Hyphenation: dot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

dot m or f (plural dotten, diminutive dotje n)

1. a tuft, a bunch, a clump
2. (informal) a lot, a large amount

   een dot geld - a lot of money

3. cutie, something small and adorable
4. darling, sweetie (almost always used in its diminutive form - dotje)
5. a swab

Synonyms

• (cutie): kleintje
• (darling): schatje, liefje

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dos. Doublet of dose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

dot f (plural dots)

1. dowry, marriage portion

Derived terms

• coureur de dot

Further reading

• “dot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Alternative forms

• dod

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???t??/

Contraction

dot (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).

Related terms

Klamath-Modoc

Alternative forms

• tút (Gatschet)

Noun

dot

1. tooth

References

• Barker, M. A. R. (1963). Klamath Dictionary. University of California Publications in Linguistics 31. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• Gatschet, Samuel S. (1890). The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon. Volume II, Part II. United States Government Printing Office.

Latvian

Etymology

From earlier *duoti, *duotie, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *d??tei, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti (“to give”). The present tense forms are new formations, replacing the old athematic forms (still attested in dialectal forms like domu (“I give”) instead of dodu). The past tense forms are from earlier *davu (cf. Lithuanian davia?); the e was extended from the past active participle form devis (< *devens < *de-d-wens).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duôt]

Verb

dot (tr., no conj., pres. dodu, dod, dod, past devu)

1. to give (to hand to someone, so that s/he can have it)

2. to give, to provide (to allow the use of a material object, to free a place for someone else's use)

3. (colloquial) to give in marriage

4. (colloquial) to allow (e.g., a son or daughter) to work, to be employed

5. to give, to grant, to procure, to secure (a state, circumstances)

6. to give, to dedicate, to donate, to provide (at birth)

7. (dated sense) to allow, to permit

8. to give (to express orally or in writing)

9. to give (to add to a text)

10. (mathematics, usually in the past passive participle form dots) to be given, to be known from the start

11. (of physical or mental states) to give (to create, to inspire, to generate)

12. (of results, effects) to give, to provide, to be the cause (of something)

13. (of material objects, values; also of spiritual or cultural values) to give, to produce, to create

14. (colloquial) to give, to pay

15. (colloquial, a person's age, by sight) to give, to estimate as

16. (colloquial) to hit

17. (colloquial) to shoot, to give a shot

Conjugation

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• dev?js
• devums
• doties

References

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?t/

Verb

dot

1. inflection of doen:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Malay

Noun

dot (plural dot-dot, informal 1st possessive dotku, impolite 2nd possessive dotmu, 3rd possessive dotnya)

1. nipple, teat

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dugd? (compare Persian ????? (do?tar), ???? (do?t), Pashto ???? (lur), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (dug?dar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *d?ug?d?? (compare Sanskrit ?????? (duhit?), from *d?u??itr-), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ugh?t?r (compare Armenian ?????? (dustr), Greek ???????? (thygatéra), Lithuanian dukt?, Russian ???? (do??), English daughter).

Noun

dot f

1. daughter

Related terms

• dotmam
• keç
• pis

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *totë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?to?h(t)/

Determiner

d?t

1. yonder, that way over there (very far from speaker and listener)

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

d?t

1. dead

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• d?do

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: dôot
  • Dutch: dood
    • Afrikaans: dood
  • Limburgish: doead

Further reading

• “d?t”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Swedish död, Icelandic dauður.

Adjective

dot

1. dead

Volapük

Noun

dot (nominative plural dots)

1. doubt

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?a?f?l/
• Rhymes: -a?f?l
• Hyphenation: tri?fle

Noun

trifle (countable and uncountable, plural trifles)

1. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

   Coordinate terms: tiramisu, bread pudding

2. Anything that is of little importance or worth.

   Synonyms: bagatelle, minor detail, whiffle; see also Thesaurus:trifle

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3,^[1]

     Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.

   • 1631, Michael Drayton, Nimphidia the Court of Fayrie in The Battaile of Agincourt, London: William Lee, p. 168,^[2]

     Olde Chaucer doth of Topas tell,

     Mad Rablais of Pantagruell,

     A latter third of Dowsabell,

     With such poore trifles playing:

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, London, p. 34,^[3]

     […] when they had the Character and Honour of a Woman at their Mercy, often times made it their Jest, and at least look’d upon it as a Trifle, and counted the Ruin of those, they had had their Will of, as a thing of no value.

   • 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 4,^[4]

     ‘And all about a rattle!’ said Alice, still hoping to make them a little ashamed of fighting for such a trifle.

   1. An insignificant amount of money.
      • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act III, Scene 3,^[5]

        A trifle, some eight-penny matter.

      • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 9,^[6]

        He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums […]

      • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, Chapter 30, p. 311,^[7]

        What’s eighty dollars? A trifle. An insignificant sum.

      • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York: Avon, 1976, p. 462,^[8]

        “It was bad of me then not to send the fifteen hundred dollars. I assumed it would be a trifle.”

        “Well, until a few months ago it was a trifle.”

3. A very small amount (of something).

   Synonyms: smidgen; see also Thesaurus:modicum

   • 1742, Daniel Defoe, A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn et al., Volume 2, Letter II. Containing A Description of the City of London, p. 90, footnote,^[9]

     This Line leaves out […] Poplar and Black-wall, which are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.

   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part 1, Chapter 2,^[10]

     There was a good deal of rustling and whispering behind the curtain, a trifle of lamp smoke, and an occasional giggle from Amy […]

   • 1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Strain, London: Heinemann, Part 4, p. 180,^[11]

     “Take just a trifle of French mustard […] ”

4. A particular kind of pewter.
5. (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

Derived terms

• a trifle

Translations

Verb

trifle (third-person singular simple present trifles, present participle trifling, simple past and past participle trifled)

1. (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.

   You must not trifle with her affections.

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene 1,^[12]

     […] Do not believe

     That, from the sense of all civility,

     I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 56,^[13]

     “Miss Bennet,” replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, “you ought to know, that I am not to be trifled with […] ”

   • 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Penguin, 1958, Book 2, Chapter 11, p. 171,^[14]

     But a Judge may not trifle with the Law because the society is defective.

2. (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter 27,^[15]

     […] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […]

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking, 1960, Chapter 19, p. 405,^[16]

     But he was terribly roused too and bound to go on; he wasn’t just trifling but intended something.

3. (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 28,^[17]

     Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […]

   • 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, New York: Fawcett, 1967, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 151,^[18]

     She sat in a café, trifling with her coffee spoon.

4. (transitive) To squander or waste.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,^[19]

     We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.

   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 62,^[20]

     For an honest and sober man will rather make that woman his wife, whom he seeth employed continually about her business, than one who makes it her business to trifle away her own and others time.

   • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 6,^[21]

     As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else.

   • 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985, p. 189,^[22]

     You who have known neither sorrow nor pleasure; who have trifled your life away!

5. (transitive, obsolete) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 4,^[23]

     […] but this sore night

     Hath trifled former knowings.

Synonyms

• (toy with): fiddle
• (squander): fritter, wanton

Translations

See also

• trifle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• filter, filtre, firtle, lifter, relift

Portuguese

Noun

trifle m (plural trifles)

1. trifle (English dessert)