cot

¹ American  

abbreviation

Trigonometry.

1. cotangent.

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cot ² American  

[kot] / kɒt /

noun

1. a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.

2. British. a child's crib.

3. a light bedstead.

4. Nautical. a hammocklike bed stiffened by a suspended frame.

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cot ³ American  

[kot] / kɒt /

noun

1. a small house; cottage; hut.

2. a small place of shelter.

3. a sheath or protective covering, as for an injured finger or toe.

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cot ¹ British  

/ kɒt /

noun

1. a child's boxlike bed, usually incorporating vertical bars

2. a collapsible or portable bed

3. a light bedstead

4. nautical a hammock-like bed with a stiff frame

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cot ² British  

/ kɒt /

abbreviation

1. cotangent

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cot ³ British  

/ kɒt /

noun

1. literary a small cottage

2. Also called: cote. 

   1. a small shelter, esp one for pigeons, sheep, etc

   2. ( in combination )

      dovecot

3. another name for fingerstall

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cot ⁴ British  

/ kɒt /

verb

1. dialect to entangle or become entangled

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cot Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of cotangent

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Etymology

Origin of cot²

1625–35; < Hindi khāṭ < Prakrit khaṭṭā < Sanskrit khaṭvā; akin to Tamil kattil bedstead

Origin of cot³

before 900; Middle English, Old English cot (neuter; cf. cote ¹); cognate with Old Norse kot hut; akin to cubby, cove ¹

Explanation

A cot is a small, portable bed. You might sleep on a cot when you go camping. Some hotels offer cots for extra guests who stay in your room, and campers and soldiers on the move often use cots for sleeping. A cot's benefits include its light weight and ability to be folded into an easily carried size. In Britain, a cot is a baby bed or crib. Cot has a Hindi source, khat, "couch, bed, or hammock" from the Sanskrit khatva.

Example Sentences

At the Tyne Cot cemetery, where 12,000 Commonwealth soldiers are buried row upon row, his perspective on life and death, war and peace, is being honed.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Ms. Jeong and Mr. Hsu were married July 31, 2021 in Central Park’s Cop Cot in front of 44 guests.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021

He is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium, but his headstone only became engraved with "MM", to mark his medal, after the Mullins spotted that it was missing and reported it.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2017

Cot And Bagel: A low-budget bed and breakfast.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2016

Claude and J. Lewis Brown render so capitally; nor of the portraits of Pérignon, Édouard Dubufe and Cot; nor of the flowers of Mademoiselle Escallier.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

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