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dotting and carrying

dotting and carrying is the present participle and gerund of dot and carry.

Meaning of dot and carry

Verb

dot and carry (third-person singular simple present dots and carries, present participle dotting and carrying, simple past and past participle dotted and carried)

  1. In addition, to set down the units and carry over the tens to the next column.

Questions about dotting and carrying

What is dotting and carrying the present participle and gerund of?
Dotting and carrying is the present participle and gerund of dot and carry.

Words near dotting and carrying in the dictionary

  1. dottiest
  2. dottily
  3. dottiness
  4. dottinesses
  5. dotting
  6. dotting and carrying
  7. dotting down
  8. dotting the i's
  9. dotting the i's and crossing the t's
  10. dottings
  11. dottle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dotting and carrying (page history and authors); dot and carry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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