dot
(=spot) point m
→ She painted little black dots for the clown's eyes.
→ blue silk with little white dots
→ a dot that might have been a ship
→ Soon they were only dots above the horizon.
on the dot
(=exactly)
He arrived at 9 o'clock on the dot. Il est arrivé à neuf heures pile.
→ at nine o' clock on the dot
on the dot of 9.50 pm à 21h50 pile
→ They appeared on the dot of 9.50 pm.
since the year dot (British)
*
(=since a long time ago) depuis belle lurette
(in website or email address)
point m
→ "dot demon dot co dot uk"
(=be scattered across)
[+area] être éparpillé (e) dans
→ Small coastal towns dot the landscape.
to dot the i's and cross the t's faire du fignolage → You don't have to dot every `i" and cross every `t" → I set off for New York to cross the Ts and dot the Is with Westinghouse
DOT
n abbr (US) ( Department of Transportation)
dot-com , dot com, dot.com
n
(=company) point-com m
→ In 1999, dot-coms spent more than $1 billion on TV spots.
modif
[boom, explosion, crash, era] du point-com
→
dot-com company
dot-com company , dot.com company
n société f point-com
dot command
n (COMPUTING) commande f précédée d'un point
dot matrix printer , dot-matrix printer
n imprimante f matricielle
polka-dot
adj
a polka-dot blouse un chemisier à pois