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Another word for jot

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Noun

  1. A tiny amount

      1. A flaw or defect, as in character or reputation; something blameworthy; fault
      2. A small area of different color or texture from the main area of which it is a part; often, a mark made by some foreign matter; stain, blot, speck, patch, etc.
      3. (Chiefly British) A small amount; a bit:
      1. The least bit; an iota:
      2. The least bit; jot; iota
      1. A particular kind of pewter.
      2. A small amount or degree; bit
      3. Something of little value or importance; trivial thing, idea, etc.; paltry matter
      1. A surname​.
      2. A dot or other small mark used as a diacritic
      3. The tiniest bit; an iota.
      1. A very small bit; particle
      2. A tiny amount; a bit:
      1. A very small quantity or amount.
      2. A very small quantity or portion; a bit or mite:
      1. A long, narrow strip or piece made by cutting or tearing
      2. A very small piece or amount; fragment; particle
      1. A very small quantity, amount, or part
      2. An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action:
      3. A feeling of hesitancy, doubt, or uneasiness arising from difficulty in deciding what is right, proper, ethical, etc.; qualm or misgiving about something one thinks is wrong
      1. Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing.
      2. A small piece; bit; fragment; shred
      3. A bit of something written or printed; brief extract
      1. (Physics) A body whose spatial extent and internal motion and structure, if any, are irrelevant in a specific problem.
      2. (Linguistics) An uninflected item that has grammatical function but does not clearly belong to one of the major parts of speech, such as up in He looked up the word or to in English infinitives.
      3. A very small or the smallest possible amount, trace, or degree:
      1. Any small amount
      2. A unit of weight in the US Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 437.5 grains (28.35 grams).
      3. A tiny bit:
      1. (Now Chiefly Dial.) A scrap or fragment of food left from a meal
      2. A small scrap or leaving of food after a meal is completed.
      3. A scrap; a bit.
      1. The smallest particle of a substance that retains the chemical and physical properties of the substance and is composed of two or more atoms; a group of like or different atoms held together by chemical forces.
      2. A small particle; a tiny bit.
      1. A coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing.
      2. Any of numerous small or minute arachnids of the order Acarina, including species that damage crops or stored food and species that are parasitic on animals and often transmit disease.
      3. Bit
      1. The smallest unit of liquid measure, equal to160 fluid dram or about half a drop (0.0616 milliliter): the British and Canadian imperial minim equals160 of an imperial fluid dram or 0.0592 milliliter
      2. A unit of fluid measure, as:
      3. An insignificantly small portion or thing.
      1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
      2. A bank account that earns interest and pays it to a third party, generally a charity; the principal is typically being held in escrow by the accountholder.
      3. A very small amount; a bit:
      1. The fruits of cereal grasses especially after having been harvested, considered as a group:
      2. A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united:
      3. A tiny bit; slightest amount
      1. (Grammar) A sentence fragment.
      2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit:
      3. The part that exists of a literary or other work left unfinished
      1. A trace or hint:
      2. Anything that drops or is used for dropping or covering something, as a drop curtain or piece of theater scenery, a drop hammer, or a trapdoor
      3. A thing like a drop in shape or size, as a pendent earring or a small piece of candy
      1. A unit of weight in the US Customary System equal to116 of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams).
      2. A random-access memory chip that must be recharged continually in order for stored data to be retained
      3. A small amount; a bit:
      1. A point put above or below a note to show that it is staccato
      2. In Morse and similar codes, the short sound or signal used in combination with the dash and silent intervals to represent letters, numbers, or punctuation.
      3. (Music) A point after a note or rest, increasing its time value by one half
      1. A gift or tip offered to get better service
      2. In Morse and similar codes, the long sound or signal used in combination with the dot and silent intervals to represent letters or numbers.
      3. A small quantity of something added
      1. One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
      2. (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
      3. A small, soft or moist bit of something
      1. (Slang) A worthless, disgusting, or despicable person
      2. Any bit or scrap
      3. A very small piece broken off something; small particle or bit, esp. of bread, cake, etc.
      1. A brief amount of time; a moment:
      2. (Informal) A particular kind of action, situation, or behavior:
      3. A small portion, degree, or amount:
    See also:

    big

  2. The least bit

    See also:

    big

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Another word for jot

Verb
  1. See also:

    write

    record

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Sentence Examples

  • Usually I jot down what I can remember of them when I get home.

  • I never lost a jot of my delight in this great park.

  • His writing apparatus - a noctograph - lay before him, and he kept his ivory style in his hand to jot down notes as the reading progressed.

  • On returning home in the evening he would jot down in his notebook four or five necessary calls or appointments for certain hours.

  • The facts that he used to walk with Bacon at Gorhambury, and would jot down with exceptional intelligence the eager thinker's sudden " notions," and that he was employed to make the Latin version of some of the Essays, prove nothing when weighed against his own disregard of all Bacon's principles, and the other evidence that the impulse to independent thinking came to him not from Bacon, and not till some time after Bacon's death in 1626.1 So far as we have any positive evidence, it was not before the year 1629 that Hobbes entered on philosophical inquiry.

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