Definition of "dot"

Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away.

1845, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems‎, lines 269–272

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TOA VERY SMALL DOTINA VERY BIG UNIVERSE

1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China‎, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, page v

The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths.

1838, William Hamilton, “Report on Prof. Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute‎

That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.

2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport‎, London

Can’t miss no dotsEvery shot let caused I’m hittinUsed to bag it up in the toiletMy mumsie thought I was shittin

2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH

We got rambos, glocks and dots,It takes two armed jakes to sum off the block

2018 September 9, “Hide N Seek”, in C1 (lyrics), Tulse Hill Slums‎, from 1:06–1:09

Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 171

Wooden crosses, some drunkenly askew, dot a darkened stage at the start of Vuyani Dance Theater’s “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero.” There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs.

2023 April 14, Rosyln Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times‎

`Which means,' said John, `that someone dotted him a good one, shoved him into the bathtub, ran the water, then opened his mouth and poured champagne into it until he drowned.'

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 332

"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."

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 53”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]

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

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