centred dot

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noun printing

Also called (esp US and Canadian): bullet a heavy dot (·) used to draw attention to a particular paragraph

a dot placed at a central level in a line of type or writing

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Words nearby centred dot

Central Valley, centre, centre bit, centreboard, centred, centred dot, centre-fire, centrefold, centre forward, centre half, centre of curvature

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How to use centred dot in a sentence

Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.
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Above the notes of praise is a small photo of Guerin wearing a polka dot tie and pocket square, staring at you like a sociopath.
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It was there, in small type, hosted on some dot-edu domain, looking the way websites did in the mid-1990s.
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Picasso, with his polka-dot shirt and clashing tie attempted an air of bravado, but lost confidence by the minute.
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He drew a series of concentric circles on a page with a single dot—Robert Moses—in the center.
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Though Caroline only brought with her a dot of forty thousand francs, she stood for what was better still, immense possibilities.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Tony, less self-centred, less rigidly contained, had penetrated her by an understanding sympathy greater than his own.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
For his heart seemed alternately full and empty; all the life he had was centred there.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
A dot or two, sometimes only one, sometimes as many as five, are thrown in as a rough way of indicating the features.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Typical "segmenters" present a ring of rounded segments or spores, each with a small, dot-like chromatin mass.
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