Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The smallest bit; iota.
- v. To write down briefly or hastily: jot down an address.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An iota; a point; a tittle; the least quantity assignable.
- To set down quickly and with few strokes in writing or sketching; make a brief note or memorandum of: usually with down.
- To jog; jolt; bump; nudge.
- Plump; downright.
Wiktionary
- n. An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle.
- n. a brief and hurriedly written note
- v. To write quickly.
- v. To go quickly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. bit, n.
- v. To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a slight but appreciable amount
- v. write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of
- n. a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note
Etymologies
- From Latin iōta, from ἰῶτα (iōta). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English jote, from Latin iōta, iota, from Greek, iota; see iota. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Essentially, the iPhones were all Rickrolled in jot down time.”
“Instead you use WikiWords. (create hyperlinks by using CapitalLetters with no space! supported by tens of SME applications in jot's case eg crm, project management, sales pipeline, recruitment - then you can upload files and receive updates through RSS - very kewl): SocialText did a VC round the other week (SAP I think funded) and now Jotspot come out with a very kewl collaboration feature.”
“The word jot, or yod -- '-- is the name of the Hebrew letter I, the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet.”
“The reason that SMT don’t give jot is because it is not their arses’ on the line at 2. 00am behind a derelict building with Billy burglar wanting to take their head off.”
“Zembla asked how Simon Singh should respond to the fact that there is a "jot" of evidence.”
“Jott.com's premise seems to be fairly simple: It helps you "jot" down your ideas and appointments, lists, reminders, etc.”
“These Covenanters found Christ in every particle of revealed truth, in every "jot," and in every "tittle" of the Word of God.”
“To explain myself on this point, I will ask the reader to recall any one of Mr. Alma Tadema's pictures; it matters not a jot which is chosen.”
“We begin on the practical side here, and as to theory, we are rigidly limited to that which the question of the play requires, -- the practical question marks it out, -- we have just as much as is required for the solution of that, and not so much as a 'jot' more.”
“She dragged out her interview with the music-master, put questions wide of the point, insisted on lingering till he had arranged another hour for the postponed rehearsal; and, as she walked, as she talked, as she listened to Monsieur Boehmer’s ridiculous English, she strove in vain to recall jot or tittle of Oliver’s relations to foreign powers. —”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jot’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Scribblative ✍
Scrawlings, notes, odd writings, and messages.
doodle, notation, scrawl, tracing, scribble, latrinalia, sketch, squiggle, notelet, post-it, chicken scratch, caligraphy and 88 more...
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Not Much
smidgeon, iota, scintilla, dab, bit, trace, touch, soupçon, crumb, dash, drop, whit and 19 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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[Open] Quanta
Words that describe a smallest possible amount, trace, or degree; a fundamental unit; an irreducible constituent; a smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit; a least possible positive value; ...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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ff
attribute, sticking, distinct, perseverance, trend, clarify, avoidant, ambivalent, disoriented, cling, prompting, appositive and 94 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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