Dictionary Definition
jot
Noun
1 a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note [syn:
jotting]
2 a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish
could use a touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, speck, soupcon] v : write briefly or
hurriedly; write a short note of [syn: jot down] [also:
jotting, jotted]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒt
Translations
Derived terms
Verb
jot- (usually with "down"): To write quickly.
- Tell me your order, so I can jot it down.
- (usually with "over"): To go quickly.
- Just jot over there to the US Space and Rocket Center and give it a look.
Translations
to write quickly
- Icelandic: skrifa hjá sér í flýti, punkta, punkta niður, hripa, hripra hjá sér
to go quickly
Extensive Definition
Jot or JOT may refer to:
- Iota and Jot, two esoteric computer languages
- JOT (TV series), a syndicated, animated television series
- JOT: Journal of Object Technology, an online journal
- An iota in the phrase "one jot or one tittle"; cf. tittle
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ace,
atom, birthmark, bit, blaze, blemish, blotch, book, brand, calendar, carve, caste mark, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check, check in, checkmark, chronicle, cicatrix, crumb, cut, dab, dapple, discoloration, docket, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, earmark, engrave, engraving, enroll, enscroll, enter, farthing, file, fill out, fleck, flick, flyspeck, fragment, freckle, gash, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, grave, graving, groat, hack, hair, handful, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert, iota, jot down, lentigo, list, little, little bit, log, lota, macula, make a memorandum, make a
note, make an entry, make out, mark, mark down, marking, matriculate, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minute, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, mole, molecule, mote, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, note, note down, nutshell, ounce, particle, patch, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, place upon record,
point, polka dot, poll, post, post up, prick, puncture, put down, put in
writing, put on paper, put on tape, record, reduce to writing,
register, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scrap, scratch, scratching, scruple, set down, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spoonful, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, tattoo, tattoo mark, thimbleful, tick, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point, videotape, watermark, whit, write, write down, write in, write
out, write up