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shred
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /???d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English shrede, shred, from Old English s?r?ad, s?r?ade, from Proto-Germanic *skraud? (“a cut, shred”). Doublet of escrow.
Noun
shred (plural shreds)
- A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
- In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:modicum.
Related terms
- screed
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English shreden, from Old English s?r?adian, from Proto-West Germanic *skraud?n, related to Proto-West Germanic *skraudan (“to cut up, shred”).
Verb
shred (third-person singular simple present shreds, present participle shredding, simple past shredded, past participle shredded or shred)
- To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- To reduce by a large percentage.
- (obsolete, transitive) To lop; to prune; to trim.
- (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
- (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
- (music, slang) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).
Derived terms
- shredder
Translations
References
Further reading
- shred in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- shred in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- herds, sherd
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dot
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)
- A small, round spot.
- a dot of colour
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
- (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.
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (obsolete) A lump or clot.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- a dot of a child
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (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)
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- Dot your is and cross your ts.
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- to dot a line
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- to dot a landscape with cottages
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
Synonyms
- stipple
Derived terms
Preposition
dot
- 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)
- (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.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 53
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
- "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)
- dowry
- gift, talent
Synonyms
- (gift): do
Further reading
- “dot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?t/
- Hyphenation: dot
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
dot m or f (plural dotten, diminutive dotje n)
- a tuft, a bunch, a clump
- (informal) a lot, a large amount
- een dot geld - a lot of money
- cutie, something small and adorable
- darling, sweetie (almost always used in its diminutive form - dotje)
- 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)
- 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)
- (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).
Related terms
Klamath-Modoc
Alternative forms
- tút (Gatschet)
Noun
dot
- 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)
- to give (to hand to someone, so that s/he can have it)
- to give, to provide (to allow the use of a material object, to free a place for someone else's use)
- (colloquial) to give in marriage
- (colloquial) to allow (e.g., a son or daughter) to work, to be employed
- to give, to grant, to procure, to secure (a state, circumstances)
- to give, to dedicate, to donate, to provide (at birth)
- (dated sense) to allow, to permit
- to give (to express orally or in writing)
- to give (to add to a text)
- (mathematics, usually in the past passive participle form dots) to be given, to be known from the start
- (of physical or mental states) to give (to create, to inspire, to generate)
- (of results, effects) to give, to provide, to be the cause (of something)
- (of material objects, values; also of spiritual or cultural values) to give, to produce, to create
- (colloquial) to give, to pay
- (colloquial, a person's age, by sight) to give, to estimate as
- (colloquial) to hit
- (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
- inflection of doen:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Malay
Noun
dot (plural dot-dot, informal 1st possessive dotku, impolite 2nd possessive dotmu, 3rd possessive dotnya)
- 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
- daughter
Related terms
- dotmam
- keç
- pis
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *totë.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?to?h(t)/
Determiner
d?t
- 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
- dead
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- d?do
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dôot
- Dutch: dood
- Afrikaans: dood
- Limburgish: doead
- Dutch: dood
Further reading
- “d?t”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Swedish död, Icelandic dauður.
Adjective
dot
- dead
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Noun
dot (nominative plural dots)
- doubt
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