dotted
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of dot
Adjective

dotted

  1. (of a line) Made up of a series of dots.
    Please print your name and address clearly on the dotted line.
  2. (usually computer) That contains dots.
  3. (music, of notes and rests) With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note.
  4. (figurative) Covered with irregularly scattered objects.
    • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 11, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Badge_of_Courage_(1895)/Chapter_11#107 page 107]:
      The woods filtered men and the fields became dotted.
Translations
  • German: gepunktet
  • Russian: пункти́рный
  • Spanish: punteado



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