DOTTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dotted mean? 

• DOTTED (adjective)
  The adjective DOTTED has 2 senses:

1. having a pattern of dots

2. having gaps or spaces

  Familiarity information: DOTTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOTTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a pattern of dots

Synonyms:

dotted; flecked; specked; speckled; stippled

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having gaps or spaces

Synonyms:

dashed; dotted

Context example:

sign on the dotted line

Similar:

broken (not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly)

 Context examples 

The microbleeds appeared as either linear streaks or dotted, also referred to as punctate, lesions.

(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)

Dotted here and there on the mountain's-side, each tiny dot a home, were lonely wooden cottages, so dwarfed by the towering heights that they appeared too small for toys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A long, sloping hillside, dotted with grey limestone boulders, stretched behind us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We could see a long white ribbon of it, all dotted with carts and waggons coming from Croydon to Redhill, but there was no sign of the big red four-in-hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The top of the plateau was dotted thickly with pine-trees of varying height.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In front was an open plain, sloping slightly upwards and dotted with clumps of tree-ferns, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale-backed ridge.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, the atmospheric pressure of Mars is now less than 1% of Earth's, and the oceans and rivers that once dotted the Red Planet's surface have disappeared.

(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)

To their right stretched the blue Garonne, running swiftly seawards, with boats and barges dotted over its broad bosom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have said that scattered towers marked the villages which dotted this part of Cornwall.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lakes are dotted across almost every continent, and located in areas with a range of land uses and socioeconomic conditions.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)