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dot

 
 
/dɒt/ verb [T] (present participle dotting, past tense and past participle dotted)

Translation

PUT to put a dot or dots on something
nokta koymak
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SPREAD ( also dot around) to be spread across an area
dağılmak, yayılmak, kaplamak
The company has 43 hotels dotted around the UK.800
(Definition of dot verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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