JOT


Meaning of JOT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒɒt ]

( jots, jotting, jotted)

1.

If you jot something short such as an address somewhere, you write it down so that you will remember it.

Could you just jot his name on there.

= write

VERB : V n prep / adv

Jot down means the same as jot .

Keep a pad handy to jot down queries as they occur...

Listen carefully to the instructions and jot them down.

= note down

PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P

2.

If you say that there is not a jot or not one jot of something, you are emphasizing that there is not even a very small amount of it. ( OLD-FASHIONED )

There is not a jot of evidence to say it does them any good...

It makes not one jot of difference.

= bit

QUANT : with brd-neg , QUANT of n-uncount [ emphasis ]

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