dab vs dot

dab

noun
  • A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. 

  • A small amount of hash oil. 

  • A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. 

  • One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept. 

  • A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. 

  • A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys. 

  • A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder. 

  • A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow. 

adv
  • With a dab, or sudden contact. 

verb
  • To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion. 

  • To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. 

  • To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. 

  • To apply a substance in this way. 

  • To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head. 

dot

noun
  • Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen. 

  • A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes. 

  • A small, round spot. 

  • buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun 

  • A dot ball. 

  • One of the two symbols used in Morse code. 

  • A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. 

  • A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. 

  • A dowry. 

prep
  • Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector. 

verb
  • To punch (a person). 

  • To mark or diversify with small detached objects. 

  • To cover with small spots (of some liquid). 

  • To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to. 

  • To mark by means of dots or small spots. 

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