Word Meanings - DOTTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note , a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal

Additional info about word: DOTTED

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note , a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note. Note: Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOTTED)

• Maculated
• Spotted
• speckled
• mottled
• dotted

Related words: (words related to DOTTED)

• DOTTEREL
  Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." Ascham.
• SPECKLED-BILL
  The American white-fronted goose .
• SPECKLEDNESS
  The quality of being speckled.
• MACULATE
  Marked with spots or maculæ; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts. Shak.
• SPOTTEDNESS
  State or quality of being spotted.
• DOTTARD
  An old, decayed tree. Bacon.
• MACULATION
  The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. Shak.
• SPECKLE
  A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.
• DOTTREL
  See DOTTEREL
• SPOTTED
  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• SPECKLED
  Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface. Speckled Indians , the Pintos. -- Speckled trout. The common American brook trout. See Trout. The rainbow trout.
• DOTTED
  Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note , a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal
• DOTTING PEN
  See PUN
• MOTTLE
  To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. (more info) Etym:
• MOTTLED
  Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.
• SPOTTINESS
  The state or quality of being spotty.
• DOTTY
  1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots. 2. Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted.
• SPECKLED-BELLY
  The gadwall.
• SPOTTY
  Full of spots; marked with spots.
• BIMACULATE
  Having, or marked with, two spots.
• IMMACULATE
  Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure. Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. Denham. Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. Shak. Immaculate conception , the doctrine
• EMACULATE
  To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. Hales.
• RIDOTTO
  A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.
• SEA DOTTEREL
  The turnstone.
• CONDOTTIERE
  A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.