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  • adjective Without dots.

Etymologies

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dot +‎ -less

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Examples

  • An a is not an o with a dotless i glommed onto it.

    Font Rage Part Deux « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006

  • I want, in no particular order, the coffee-colored dots the third shelf down on the left; the multi-sized green on the bottom right and oddly, that horrible dotless pea green right next to it——I always latch on to the runt of any litter; and the orange and chartreuse on the third shelf down in the middle.

    June 2007 2007

  • I want, in no particular order, the coffee-colored dots the third shelf down on the left; the multi-sized green on the bottom right and oddly, that horrible dotless pea green right next to it——I always latch on to the runt of any litter; and the orange and chartreuse on the third shelf down in the middle.

    The Polka-Dot Motherland - A Dress A Day 2007

  • The last two letters are U+0626 and U+0649 (yaa' with hamza and 'alif maksura (dotless yaa') respectively - I suspect I'm mixing spelling conventions with those names).

    languagehat.com: NAME THAT LANGUAGE! 2005

  • My Aunt Estrella -- Ruthie's mom and the new matriarch of my mother's side of the family -- comes around offering slabs of Ecuadorian cheese laid out on a tray like dotless dominoes and tiny oblong coffin lids.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • My Aunt Estrella -- Ruthie's mom and the new matriarch of my mother's side of the family -- comes around offering slabs of Ecuadorian cheese laid out on a tray like dotless dominoes and tiny oblong coffin lids.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • It would be no answer to say that some owners will not use the red dot, and even for those that do, there will be older, dotless versions still available.

    The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

  • There is a fine directness about courtship in Hughson's class, -- it puts the dots upon the _i_'s; but Sadie must have preferred them dotless, for she said, "My name is not Sadie."

    Pirate Gold Frederic Jesup Stimson 1899

  • If you want the first tilde expression, you can also get it in all three applications by using \imath and \jmath to get dotless i and dotless j, respectively as in TeX.

    Site Home MurrayS3 2011

  • This is kind of handy and is simpler than the method in TeX, which requires use of \imath and \jmath for dotless i and j, respectively.

    Site Home MurrayS3 2011

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