Dot

Examples

• The shifting of the type-wheels is brought about as follows: On the keyboard of the transmitter there are two characters known as dots--namely, the letter dot and the figure dot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He perfected the dot and dash code, he invented the device for embossing the message, and replaced the inking pen by a metal disc, smeared with ink, that rolled the dots and dashes on the paper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To his mind the earth is only an insignificant dot in the center of the vast heavens. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If the operator presses one of these dot keys, it is engaged by an appropriate pin on the revolving cylinder. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If _K_ is closed for but a short time, the armature is drawn down for but a short interval, and the marker registers a dot on the tape. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I'b dot certaid you cad,' said Barney, who was the attendant sprite; 'but I'll idquire. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Far away, a black dot, we could see a vehicle moving in our direction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I replied that I thought he was in the right place, and told him to get busy with his talk on dots and dashes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The other man took the receiver, and a moment later his ear caught the sound of three little clicks, faint, but distinct and unmistakable, the three dots of the letter S in the Morse Code. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Morse telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, is given in Figure 218. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The various tones must be changed either to lines or dots, so as to make a printing surface for the ink roller of the press to operate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hence, the transmitted message was received on the tape in visible dots and dashes representing characters of the Morse alphabet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn, an indistinct form against the dark street now dotted with lamps, looms in my Lady's view, bigger and blacker than before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These lights dotted the hillside like stars of a low magnitude. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• These mirrors are hinged at O O, and when swung outward rest by their external edges against the bar P, and then occupy the position shown by the dotted lines G′ G′. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The therns for their part have temples dotted about the entire civilized world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The branching and diverging dotted lines of unequal lengths proceeding from (A), may represent its varying offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• One sees dotted over the country windmills large and small, and in Holland, the country of windmills, the landowner who does not possess a windmill is poor indeed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The curved dotted line beside the shafts indicated a bowed guard to press the standing grain away from the horse. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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