Dotted
['dɒtɪd] or ['dɑtɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dot
(a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.
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Examples
- 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.
- Those still in the camp caught the alarm, and ran for the boats, so in a few minutes the harbor was dotted with craft pulling hard for the entrance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here, in a thicket of stunted oaks, her verandahs spread themselves above the island-dotted waters. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We may suppose that the numbered letters in italics represent genera, and the dotted lines diverging from them the species in each genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The sewer pipes are shown in solid black, the unshaded pipes (in outline only) are air ventilation pipes, the single black lines are cold water pipes, and the dotted lines hot water pipes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is possible to travel for days at a time through country which is dotted over with mounds, every one of which is the home of a pair or more of prairie-dogs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They have assembled from many distant places; the ground between the avenues and Silbury Hill is dotted with their encampments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thousands of ships dotted the bosom of the ocean. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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