(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.
Jut
Definition:
(v. i.) To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.
(v. i.) To butt.
(n.) That which projects or juts; a projection.
(n.) A shove; a push.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Spielberg asked him to design the mothership for the climax of Close Encounters, the artist drew on a dream from years earlier, in which he had seen an awe-inspiring spacecraft with pipes and stairways jutting out from its underside.
(2) When the goal came it was scruffy in the extreme, Ramos jutting out his right boot to turn Nani's cross into his own net.
(3) Anyone who has visited Moscow will recognise the Seven Sister high-rises commissioned by Joseph Stalin between 1947 and 1953 that jut out across the city’s skyline.
(4) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.
(5) His left hand jutted out and that touch was enough to take the ball away from the goal.
(6) Nasri's clever little flick left Chris Smalling exposed at right-back and Agüero, twisting his body and jutting out his left foot, managed to apply just the right measure of control to volley in Kolarov's cross.
(7) Bony had merely jutted out his left leg after Sterling’s shot came back off the goalkeeper Sergio Rico.
(8) The building, whose jutting angles reflected Soviet industrial design, was torn apart by bullets and rockets and became crowded with Afghan drug addicts.
(9) One of the best places to experience Pennsylvania’s only shoreline is at Presque Isle state park, a sandy peninsula that juts out into the lake and provides a haven for migrating birds.
(10) Now all that remains of the €400,000 centrepiece of the city’s cultural jamboree is a few broken stumps jutting out of the pavement.
(11) More dramatically, Code Arkitektur has just completed an ambitious viewing point with the concrete ramp jutting over the vast Utsikten valley on the Gaularfjellet route.
(12) The Isle of Thanet is a pancake-flat semi-island jutting into the North Sea and is surrounded by water on three sides.
(13) It is dwarfed by a flotilla anchored just offshore, of colossal dredges and barges, hulking metal flatboats with cranes jutting from their decks.
(14) It started early on when he jutted out a leg to prevent Ryan Mason opening the scoring and his portfolio of saves included one from the penalty spot when Roberto Soldado had the chance to make it 2-2 just after the hour.
(15) Somehow, though, this Carry On, if slightly punchy, seaside resort is as rock-solidly English as a jaw-jutting bloke in a pub who might just grunt "You looking at my caravan?"
(16) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(17) Wilshere had been fortunate in the first half to avoid what by modern-day standards could easily have been a red-card offence, taking exception to one of Mike Dean’s decisions, aiming a mouthful of invective at the referee and then responding to Marouane Fellaini’s indignation by jutting his forehead into his opponent’s chin.
(18) The presidential palace, a cluster of colonial-era villas perched atop a rocky hill that juts into the Arabian Sea, was Hadi’s last bastion before he fled to Saudi Arabia last month.
(19) But it was left to the NT News to tell the real story in juts a few words: Rich Dude Becomes PM: Malcolm Turnbull seizes power in coup against Tony Abbott.
(20) MH370: Australia believes it is looking in the right place Read more On Sunday the sonar vehicle attached to the Fugro Discovery was lost after it ran into a mud volcano jutting out from the ocean floor.