Definition of Jot

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Definition of Jot
	Jot An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n. To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down. Related Definitions: An, Bit, Brief, By, Down, Followed, Iota, Make, Note, Of, Particle, Point, Set, The, Tittle, To

Jot Quotations

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
Bruce Boxleitner

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
Chris Cooper

If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
Harry Stack Sullivan

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.
Ruggero Leoncavallo

Jot Translations

jot in Dutch is jota
jot in Swedish is annotera, jota

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