What's the difference between got and jot?

Got


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Get
  • (p. p.) of Get
  • () imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 25 and 40 degrees C, the thermal dependencies of VR and f were approximately constant (Q10's of 1.31 and 1.36 got VR and f, respectively).
  • (2) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
  • (3) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
  • (4) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (5) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
  • (6) When my boyfriend and I first got together a year ago, our sex life was romantic and playful.
  • (7) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
  • (8) But whatever they invested in me, they got in return 10, 20 times more.
  • (9) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
  • (10) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
  • (11) But I suppose really we’ve just got to look to next Sunday.
  • (12) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
  • (13) "Everyone knows what it stands for and everyone has already got it in their home.
  • (14) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (15) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
  • (16) France has given £34m and we have got to get our partners to make a step change.
  • (17) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
  • (18) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (19) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
  • (20) And that's exciting, you've got no time to slow it down.

Jot


Definition:

  • (n.) An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n.
  • (v. t.) To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While Pardew restricted his celebrations to jotting some notes on a pad, a young visiting substitute seated behind him offered a study in unrestrained delight.
  • (2) 'The Brazilian spectators howled with laughter....' The miss mattered not a jot in terms of qualification.
  • (3) For several years, Thorn was a full-time parent, not even jotting down lyrics in her notebook.
  • (4) The idea that Britain is made one jot safer by a £100bn Armageddon weapon floating in the Atlantic is absurd.
  • (5) Last year, I jotted down several that had me almost salivating at the prospect of buying them.
  • (6) While Romney speaks, Obama tends to look down at his podium, jotting notes, which doesn't come over too well on television.
  • (7) White admits that he barely knows more than a paragraph's biography of each of them, but he jotted their names down at various points in the recording process.
  • (8) It won't help the cause one jot to say this, but for those of us who came of age in the 1960s, here comes our final right to wrest from the old moral and religious orthodoxy: the right to die as we please.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fact Kenneth MacMillan was a dab hand with the knitting needle, and would jot down knitting patterns and stitch counts on the same scraps of paper that he used for choreographic notes.
  • (10) I inform them that I will be turning up with a set of index cards on which I have jotted down key points, but will not be boring my audience to tears with fiddly slides consisting of flying text, fussy fonts or photo montages.
  • (11) The chap couldn’t recall the name of either of the Scottish leadership contenders and conveyed the distinct impression that, in any case, he cared not a jot.” The response accurately depicts the attitude of the Labour leadership at Westminster to the Scottish party since devolution: “Just send us down your Glasgow and Lanarkshire MPs and keep your mouths shut in the meantime.” Well, as I’m sure they will have noticed by now, Scotland has stopped sending Labour MPs to London… well, apart from wee whatsisname in Edinburgh.
  • (12) Zoom back in on the past decade and it is clear that for all the mounting scientific concern, the political rhetoric and the clean technology, nothing has made a jot of difference to the long-term trend at the global level – the system level.
  • (13) It was a war of choice that has killed tens of thousands of people, while not increasing Britain's security one jot.
  • (14) Such rhetoric is hard to take when the campaign is financed and run in part by people from the Tory party who, going by the current cuts agenda, don't seem to care one jot about public services.
  • (15) As Mr Cowell and Mr Fuller rattled through their idea for an ambitious new show to identify an unknown British singing star, Boyd scribbled notes on two sides of jotting paper during the hour-long meeting.
  • (16) "It would have trampled all over the privacy of innocent people without improving our security one jot."
  • (17) Pfizer's short-term promises about investment in the UK don't matter a jot because the group lives in a perpetual state of reinvention.
  • (18) To describe his work in progress, he jotted down a list of hyperbolic adjectives: "Astounding, extraordinary, surprising, superhuman, supernatural, unheard of, savage, sinister, formidable, gigantic, savage, colossal, monstrous, deformed, disturbed, electrifying, lugubrious, funereal, hideous, terrifying, shadowy, mysterious, fantastic, nocturnal, crepuscular."
  • (19) According to this logic, it matters not a jot how you make your money.
  • (20) The digital age, with its typing and its texting, has left us unable to jot down the simplest of notes with anything like penmanship.

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