dot vs pepper

dot

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

  • To punch (a person). 

  • To mark or diversify with small detached objects. 

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

  • To mark by means of dots or small spots. 

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

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • A dowry. 

pepper

verb
  • To cover with lots of (something made up of small things). 

  • To beat or thrash. 

  • To strike with something made up of small particles. 

  • To add (something) at frequent intervals. 

  • To add pepper to. 

noun
  • A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties. 

  • A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value. 

  • A plant of the family Piperaceae. 

  • A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again 

  • A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. 

  • A beating; a thrashing. 

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