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dotted, ppl. a.|ˈdɒtɪd|
[f. dot v.1 + -ed1.]
1. a. Formed of or traced by dots.
1869Phillips Vesuv. vii. 177 One such cone is represented by a dotted outline.
b. Of engraving: executed by dots instead of lines; stippled. Cf. F. (manière) pointillée.
1802Monthly Mag. XIV. 59/2 Both the prints are well engraven in the dotted manner. 1821[see 2]. 1897R. E. Graves in Dict. Nat. Biogr. L. 58/2 He [sc. Ryland] adopted the ‘chalk’ or dotted manner of engraving. 1908A. M. Hind Hist. Engraving 290 We have already noted dotted work in plates of Giulio Campagnola. 1938Burlington Mag. Mar. 150/1 The importance of Cologne for the production of dotted prints.
c. dotted line, a line of dots or small dashes; spec. (on a document): one to indicate the space left for signature (and therefore acceptance, etc., of its terms). Hence to sign on the dotted line, to agree fully or formally.
1772–84Cook Voy. II. ii. vii. (R.), Some few places, which are here, and in other parts of the chart, distinguished by a dotted line. 1891J. A. Ewing Magn. Induction in Iron iv. 82 A cyclic process of magnetisation was gone through, the results of which are shown by the dotted lines. 1919A. C. Lescarboura Behind Motion-Picture Screen 416 So it generally proved that the really big man who was in a position to sign the order ‘on the dotted line’, could not and would not spare the time for such a trip. 1921Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie xvi. 184, I spoke to him as one old friend to another..and he sang a few bars from ‘Rigoletto’, and signed on the dotted line. 1937Daily Herald 5 Feb. 19/7 When the [football] talk was of transfer and things, and when Childs..had just signed on the dotted line for Luton. 1950D. Gascoyne Vagrant 7 Just fill in (in block letters) on the dotted line your name And number. 1958Times 13 Oct. 11/6 Far from being content to ‘sign on the dotted line’ he [sc. King George VI] insists on knowing why. 1968M. S. Livingston Particle Physics x. 182 These are illustrated in Weisskopf's presentation by solid or dotted lines. 1971Sunday Express (Johannesburg) (Homefinder) 28 Mar. 3/3 It is enough to warrant the expense of going to have a long, lingering look before you sign on the dotted line.
2. a. Marked or covered with or as with dots.
1821Craig Lect. Drawing vii. 404 The back-ground..is dotted or stippled. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 310 Elytra a little longer than the abdomen, dotted. 1872Princess Alice Mem. 12 Nov. (1884) 287 The wide plateau looked dreary and sad—dotted all over with graves.
b. spec. Of moths.
1843Humphreys & Westwood Brit. Moths I. 125 (caption) Graphiphora Baja (the dotted clay). 1845Ibid. II. 17 (caption) Cleora teneraria (the dotted carpet). Ibid. 72 (caption) Ptychopoda lividata (the single dotted wave). 1907R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. ii. 187 The dotted footman (Pelosia muscerda). Ibid. 214 The dotted rustic (Agrotis (Pachobia) simulans). 1958W. J. Stokoe Caterp. Brit. Moths (ed. 2) I. 305 The small dotted buff.. Petilampsia minima. Ibid. 339 The dotted chestnut..Dasycampa rubiginea. Ibid. 389 The dotted fan-foot..Zanclognatha cribrumalis. Ibid. II. 188 The dotted border..Erannis marginaria.
3. Furnished with a dot.
1837Penny Cycl. IX. 104/1 s.v. Dot, Thus a double dotted minim is equal to three crotchets and a quaver. 1869Ouseley Counterp. v. 27 Three minims are placed in every bar, against one dotted semibreve in the canto fermo. |