dot

点、斑点

小さく丸い印や模様。

やさしい英語で： A small round mark or spot.

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

類義語： spot, speck

よく使う表現： red dot, small dot, dots on something

ドット、句点

文末や略語、ウェブアドレスの区切りに使う小さな点。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： full stop, period, point

よく使う表現： dot com, final dot

きっかり、ちょうど

「on the dot」で、指定された時刻ちょうどにという意味。

やさしい英語で： 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?

よく使う表現： on the dot, nine on the dot

小さな点、ちっぽけなもの

とても小さい人や物、または遠くから点のように見えるもの。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： a dot of a/an + noun (She was a dot of a child when I first met her.)

類義語： speck

よく使う表現： tiny dot, dot of something

点在する

ある地域のあちこちに散らばって存在する。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： be dotted with something (The hillside was dotted with sheep.)

類義語： scatter across

よく使う表現： dot the landscape, dot the hills

点を打つ

物の上に小さな丸い印をつける。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： dot something with something (She dotted the paper with red paint.)

類義語： mark

よく使う表現： dot an i, dot the page