(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.
Whit
Definition:
(n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whit regard to different time of normalisation of immunoglobulin values in infants with acute obstructive bronchitis associated with bronchopneumonia it was concluded that the longitudinal determination of immunoglobulin values has clinical significance since it can be found which of these two diseases is dominant.
(2) The first survey conducted the long 1988 Whit Sunday week-end by the National police, has reviewed 800 accidental injuries, 9% of which concerning 134 children: 23 children only were restrained, and the comparison with the others allows to estimate the value of the protection insured by various systems of child restraint.
(3) Black males and whit males had similar patterns of intercourse, but any males from 2-parent families had sex less frequently than from 1-parent families.
(4) I think we’re likely to have the largest turnout ever of Latino voters to stop Donald Trump,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who has argued that the party’s 2016 nominee would need at least 40% of the Latino vote to secure victory.
(5) The ultrastructure of the myoneural junctions in the body wall muscles has been studied in Branchiobdella pentodonta Whit.
(6) Surgery was performed with insertion of a modified type of Safian's solid silicone implant with triangular wedges that were removed on the posterior surface, and the spaces that were created were replaced with soft, pore-closed, whit silicone sponge.
(7) During this time the [2H]VLB in both the plasma and whit blood cell fraction of the blood declined markedly and continuously to very low levels.
(8) From the point of view of liberals, most of the appointments are abhorrent,” Whit Ayres, a top Republican political consultant and pollster, told the Guardian, “but they would have been with any Republican president.” Trump's cabinet picks: here are all of the appointments so far Read more Despite the eyebrows raised by his early appointment of Steve Bannon – a top adviser during the president-elect’s campaign and the former CEO of the far-right news site Breitbart – to be a close White House aide , the Trump administration’s personnel picks have stayed within the Republican mainstream.
(9) Nevada is a land that does not care a whit for humans.
(10) Based on dose response curves, Cyt and MTX dose modifications were individually adjusted to the whit blood cell counts and platelet counts over a 3-week period.
(11) Many will not have heard a whit about this band – named, by the way, after a pencil scrawl Healy once found in a borrowed book.
(12) In CD, side by side whit the maintenance treatment of the disease with anti-inflammatory drugs, the symptomatic treatments of diarrhoea play an important role and must be tailored to the responsible physiopathological mechanisms; some patients need artificial feeding.
(13) However, ethanolic extract of Momordica charantia Linn plant and Coccinia indica Whit and Arn root significantly lowered blood sugar in fasted model and depressed the peak value in glucose loaded model.
(14) Whit older children, one may add the Bernstein test and pressure and pH readings.
(15) The encounter promises to be contentious, with one activist Whit Jones (@whitjones) tweeting that the Occupy Wall Street movement had come to the state department.
(16) This turned out to be especially important for him, because it was taught by Whit Burnett, the highly regarded editor of Story, a magazine that specialised in publishing short fiction.
(17) Irecently discovered that the “Whit walks” I watched as a child were specific to the north of England, and to Manchester in particular.
(18) The results indicate diathermy to be perfectly safe in women whit copper-bearing IUDs.
(19) We show our experience in 12 patients treated during a year with weekly intermittent dialysis whit a rigid catheter for 36 hours a week.
(20) Brian Whitaker (@Brian_Whit) Ahmad Chalabi for prime minister?