Jot

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jot \Jot\, n. [L. iota, Gr. 'iw^ta the name of the letter [iota]
     (E. i, Heb. y[=o]d), the smallest letter of the Greek
     alphabet. Cf. {Iota}.]
     An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. {Bit},
     n.
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           Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall
           in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
                                                    --Matt. v. 18.
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           Neither will they bate
           One jot of ceremony.                     --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jot \Jot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Jotting}.]
     To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by
     down.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jot
       n 1: a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note [syn: {jotting}]
       2: a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a
          touch of garlic" [syn: {touch}, {hint}, {tinge}, {mite}, {pinch},
           {speck}, {soupcon}]
       v : write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of [syn: {jot
           down}]
       [also: {jotting}, {jotted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  167 Moby Thesaurus words for "jot":
     ace, atom, birthmark, bit, blaze, blemish, blotch, book, brand,
     calendar, carve, caste mark, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check,
     check in, checkmark, chronicle, cicatrix, crumb, cut, dab, dapple,
     discoloration, docket, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop,
     droplet, dwarf, earmark, engrave, engraving, enroll, enscroll,
     enter, farthing, file, fill out, fleck, flick, flyspeck, fragment,
     freckle, gash, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, grave, graving, groat,
     hack, hair, handful, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert,
     iota, jot down, lentigo, list, little, little bit, log, lota,
     macula, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out,
     mark, mark down, marking, matriculate, microbe, microorganism,
     midge, minim, minimum, minute, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum,
     mole, molecule, mote, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, note, note down,
     nutshell, ounce, particle, patch, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint,
     pittance, place upon record, point, polka dot, poll, post, post up,
     prick, puncture, put down, put in writing, put on paper,
     put on tape, record, reduce to writing, register, scar,
     scarification, score, scotch, scrap, scratch, scratching, scruple,
     set down, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, speckle, splash,
     splotch, spoonful, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, tabulate,
     take down, tape, tape-record, tattoo, tattoo mark, thimbleful,
     tick, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point,
     videotape, watermark, whit, write, write down, write in, write out,
     write up
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jot
     or Iota, the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet, used
     metaphorically or proverbially for the smallest thing (Matt.
     5:18); or it may be = yod, which is the smallest of the Hebrew
     letters.