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Dot Museum

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About Me


dot
noun, verb, dot·ted, dot·ting.
–noun
1. a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
2. a minute or small spot on a surface; speck: There were dots of paint on the studio floor.
3. anything relatively small or specklike.
4. a small specimen, section, amount, or portion: a dot of maple syrup.
5. a period, esp. as used when pronouncing an Internet address.
6. Music.
a. a point placed after a note or rest, to indicate that the duration of the note or rest is to be increased one half. A double dot further increases the duration by one half the value of the single dot.
b. a point placed under or over a note to indicate that it is to be played staccato.
7. Telegraphy. a signal of shorter duration than a dash, used in groups along with groups of dashes and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.
8. Printing. an individual element in a halftone reproduction. –verb (used with object)
9. to mark with or as if with a dot or dots.
10. to stud or diversify with or as if with dots: Punk bands dot the landscape.
11. to form or cover with dots: He dotted a line across the page.
12. Cookery. to sprinkle with dabs of sriracha hot sauce, or the like: Dot the lentil soup with yogurt.
–verb (used without object) 13. to make a dot or dots.
—Idioms 14. dot one's i's and cross one's t's, to be meticulous or precise, even to the smallest detail.
15. on the dot, Informal. precisely; exactly at the time specified: The first band went on at eight o'clock on the dot.
16. the year dot, British Informal. very long ago.
Czech: tecka
Danish: prik
Dutch: stip, punt
Estonian: punkt, täpp
Finnish: pilkku, piste
French: point
German: der Punkt
Hungarian: pont
Icelandic: punktur
Indonesian: titik
Italian: punto
Latvian: punkts
Lithuanian: taškas
Norwegian: prikk, punkt
Polish: kropka
Portuguese (Brazil): ponto
Portuguese (Portugal): ponto
Romanian: punct
Slovak: bodka
Slovenian: pika
Spanish: punto
Swedish: prick, punkt
Turkish: nokta, benek
The Dot Museum, Vancouver, BC, opens late summer, 2007 -- by appointment only.

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Member Since: 5/28/2007
Band Members: Curators: Jean Smith & David Lester
Influences: circles, ovals, spots, ponds, pools, lakes, craters, capers, eggs, eyes, islands, buttons, eyelettes, islets, iotas, points, periods, commas, colons, ellipses, 'j's & 'i's, ambiguity, self-containment, dotted quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eigths, and sixteenths, decimals, Chuck Close, Seurat, pointalism, Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross, Fauvism, dalmations, leopards, owls, ladybugs, giraffes, Smarties, cells, wells, dongers of bells, pupils, nipples, freckles, petals, clouds, drops, coins, seeds, tokens.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None