dot

point

Petite marque ou tache ronde.

En anglais simple : A small round mark or spot.

• Draw a dot on the paper.
• Her skirt has white dots.
• A tiny dot appeared on the screen.

Synonymes : spot, speck

Expressions courantes : red dot, small dot, dots on something

point

Petit point servant à terminer une phrase, à abréger un mot ou à séparer les parties d’une adresse web.

En anglais simple : A small point used to end a sentence, shorten a word, or separate parts of a web address.

• The address ends in dot com.
• Put a dot after the abbreviation.
• She read every dot in the web address aloud.

Synonymes : full stop, period, point

Expressions courantes : dot com, final dot

pile, à l’heure pile

Dans « on the dot », signifie exactement à l’heure indiquée.

En anglais simple : In “on the dot,” this means exactly at the stated time.

• Come at six on the dot.
• The train left at noon on the dot.
• Will you be here at nine on the dot?

Expressions courantes : on the dot, nine on the dot

point minuscule

Personne ou chose très petite, ou qui paraît minuscule de loin.

En anglais simple : A very small person or thing, or something that looks tiny from far away.

• The boat was a tiny dot.
• We watched the plane shrink to a dot.
• A dot of a child stood beside the enormous gate.

Comment l'utiliser : a dot of a/an + noun (She was a dot of a child when I first met her.)

Synonymes : speck

Expressions courantes : tiny dot, dot of something

parsemer

Se trouver à différents endroits d’une zone, de façon dispersée.

En anglais simple : To be spread in different places across an area.

• Small houses dot the valley.
• The coast is dotted with fishing villages.
• Lights dotted the distant hills.

Comment l'utiliser : be dotted with something (The hillside was dotted with sheep.)

Synonymes : scatter across

Expressions courantes : dot the landscape, dot the hills

mettre un point, pointiller

Mettre de petites marques rondes sur quelque chose.

En anglais simple : To put small round marks on something.

• Remember to dot your i.
• He dotted the page with blue ink.
• She carefully dotted each letter i.

Comment l'utiliser : dot something with something (She dotted the paper with red paint.)

Synonymes : mark

Expressions courantes : dot an i, dot the page