Definition of Dotting

1. Verb. (present participle of dot) ¹

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Definition of Dotting

1. dot [v] - See also: dot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dotting

dotted gayfeather
dotted line
dotted the i's and crossed the t's
dotted tongue
dottel
dottels
dotter
dotterel
dotterels
dotters
dottier
dottiest
dottily
dottiness
dottinesses
dotting (current term)
dotting the i's and crossing the t's
dottle
dottled
dottler
dottles
dottlest
dottrel
dottrels
dotty
doty
douane
douanes
douanier
douaniers

Literary usage of Dotting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brightness and Dullness in Children by Herbert Hollingworth Woodrow (1919)
"15 Besides the dotting test, devised especially to test the power of sustained ... Tape used in the dotting test (after Burt, British Journal of Psychology, ..."

2. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"dotting, Border, and Road Pens.—These may be termed labor-saving instruments, ... The dotting-Pen (Figs. 4 and) has a set of interchangeable wheels, ..."

3. Practical Draughtsmen's Work: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1906)
"dotting Pen. shown enlarged at Fig. 20, so that when the pen is held upright ... dotting pens are used for the purpose of drawing lines composed of dots and ..."

4. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"The " dotting" of the Tablet.—Miscellaneous Practices and Opinions relating to the Dead: Badges of Mourning worn by Widows and Widowers. ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"... also, on the copper plates, is engraved by machine (Becker's patent), and the parks and sands are ruled by a machine with a steel dotting- ..."

6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1858)
"He falls too often into the error of dotting what might otherwise be a desirable and pleasing fragment of lawn, over the whole surface with an unmeaning ..."

7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... also, on the copper plates, is engraved by machine (Becker's patent), and the parks and sands are ruled by a machine with a steel dotting-wheel, ..."

8. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"... supplement it by dotting over the surface, of necessarily formal arrangements, plants of noble or graceful aspect, such as Acacia, Dracaena, and Yucca. ..."

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