Get to know Dots better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Dots in a sentence
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Dots meaning
plural of dot
Using Dots
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of dot
- In the example corpus, dots often appears in combinations such as: the dots, dots and, dots on.
Context around Dots
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 15 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dots
- In this selection, "dots" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, red, yellow, white, represent, high and wide stand out and add context to how "dots" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and gray dots represent other, as the dots on the and dots represent. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dots" sits close to words such as dispatch, efficacy and estonian, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dots
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Red dots are mountain peaks, white dots are ancient cities. (10 words)
About 650 AD, the mathematician Brahmagupta, used small dots under numbers to represent a zero. (15 words)
Starting with an empty grid of dots, two players take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots. (23 words)
Then one has to decide how far the other corresponding parenthesis is: here one carries on until one meets either a larger number of dots, or the same number of dots next that have equal or greater "force", or the end of the line. (44 words)
Parrish (1957), p. 5. The first music notation was the use of dots over the lyrics to a chant, with some dots being higher or lower, giving the reader a general sense of the direction of the melody. (38 words)
In most contexts, the Chicago ellipsis is much too wide"—he recommends using flush dots, or thin-spaced dots (up to one-fifth of an em ), or the prefabricated ellipsis character ( Unicode U+2026, Latin entity hellip; ). (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Red dots represent White people, orange dots represent Hispanic people, blue dots represent Black people, green dots represent Asian people, and gray dots represent other people.
A full braille cell is made up of six dots, with two parallel rows of three dots, but other combinations and quantities of dots represent other letters, numbers, punctuation marks, or words.
In 8-dot braille the additional dots are added at the bottom of the cell, giving a matrix 4 dots high by 2 dots wide.
So, if the insects perceived the illusion, they would choose the option with the yellow dots clustered in the centre, revealing an overestimation of the quantity of yellow dots.
According to the Malawi Union of the Blind, the current notes have raised dots to aid in recognition of the denominations, but the dots are too small to be useful.
Addition is performed by combining the numeric symbols at each level: If five or more dots result from the combination, five dots are removed and replaced by a bar.
As compared to dot matrix printers that print a single column of dots at a time, this printer generally creates an entire line of dots at a time.
A triple bond may be expressed with three lines or pairs of dots, and if there may be ambiguity, a single line or pair of dots may be used to indicate a single bond.
In most contexts, the Chicago ellipsis is much too wide"—he recommends using flush dots, or thin-spaced dots (up to one-fifth of an em ), or the prefabricated ellipsis character ( Unicode U+2026, Latin entity hellip; ).
Parrish (1957), p. 5. The first music notation was the use of dots over the lyrics to a chant, with some dots being higher or lower, giving the reader a general sense of the direction of the melody.
Red dots are mountain peaks, white dots are ancient cities.
Starting with an empty grid of dots, two players take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots.
The braille dots are set in a simple scanning-style fashion as the dots on the wheel spin past a stationary actuator that sets the braille characters.
The letters of a word are separated by a space equal to three dots (one dash), and the words are separated by a space equal to seven dots.
Then one has to decide how far the other corresponding parenthesis is: here one carries on until one meets either a larger number of dots, or the same number of dots next that have equal or greater "force", or the end of the line.
There are two colorsets available, the first was black dots on a green background and green border, the second, more commonly used one has white dots on a black background with a white border.
There is a relationship between the size and spacing of the dots and their lifetime, as well as the ability to reject crosstalk with adjacent dots.
The spots vary over individual coats and between individual jaguars: rosettes may include one or several dots, and the shapes of the dots vary.
With a screen of tiny dots on each printing plate, the dots allowed an image to be printed in a halftone that appears to the eye in different gradations.
About 650 AD, the mathematician Brahmagupta, used small dots under numbers to represent a zero.
Phrases with dots
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with dots
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the dots 55×
- dots and 27×
- dots on 19×
- three dots 16×
- quantum dots 14×
- of dots 14×
- dots are 13×
- polka dots 9×
- red dots 8×
- dots to 8×