(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.
Joy
Definition:
(n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
(n.) That which causes joy or happiness.
(n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
(n.) To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
(v. t.) To give joy to; to congratulate.
(v. t.) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
(v. t.) To enjoy.
Example Sentences:
(1) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(2) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
(3) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(4) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(5) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(6) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(7) But in the event, two US writers have made the final round of this year's award: Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler .
(8) It's no surprise that one of the last things Ian Curtis of Joy Division did before hanging himself was to watch Herzog's Stroszeck (1977).
(9) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(10) "She's very agile as a performer, and is able to deliver again and again so it's a very joyful watch."
(11) Many of my friends have been crying with joy this week.
(12) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
(13) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
(14) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
(15) To everyone's joy, both stories turned out to be true.
(16) The experiences that most often led to high levels of joy were those referrable to positive emotional events.
(17) However, nerves among the Stoke fans subsequently turned to joy and relief as a substitute, Mame Biram Diouf, headed in with seven minutes to go and confirmed victory.
(18) When Gould almost dies one night, and the next morning is instead given three or four days to live, she experiences a strange joy at the extra time granted, more precious hours to talk with him about their twin passions, Queens Park Rangers and the Labour party, more time to help him get his book finished.
(19) Vic Goddard, principal of Passmores academy in neighbouring Essex, the school featured in the TV series Educating Essex, who recently published a book about the joys of headship, The Best Job In The World, says the document spells out what is going on across the country.
(20) Joshua Ferris's novel about dentistry, virtual identity and the search for meaning is bitingly funny; Karen Joy Fowler draws on studies of chimpanzee behaviour to consider what it is that makes us human.