What does cot mean?

Definitions for cot
kɒtcot

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fingerstall, cotnoun

    a sheath worn to protect a finger

  2. crib, cotnoun

    baby bed with high sides made of slats

  3. cot, camp bednoun

    a small bed that folds up for storage or transport

Wiktionary

  1. cotnoun

    A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed.

  2. cotnoun

    A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

  3. cotnoun

    A crib (child's bed).

  4. cotnoun

    A finger cover used to prevent static discharge.

  5. cotnoun

    A cottage or small homestead.

  6. Etymology: From खाट

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cot, Cote, Coat

    Etymology: At the end of the names of places, come generally from the Saxon cot , a cottage. Edmund Gibson Camden.

  2. COTnoun

    A small house; a cottage; a hut; a mean habitation.

    Etymology: cot, Sax. cwt, Welsh.

    What that usage meant,
    Which in her cot she daily practised. Fairy Queen, b. ii. c. 6.

    Besides his cot, his flocks, and bounds of seed,
    Are now on sale; and at our sheep cot now,
    By reason of his absence, there is nothing
    That you will feed on. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

    Hezekiah made himself stalls for all manner of beasts, and cots for flocks. 2 Chron. xxxii. 28.

    My feeble goats,
    With pains I drive from their forsaken cotes. John Dryden, Virgil.

    A stately temple shoots within the skies:
    The crotchets of their cot in columns rise;
    The pavement, polish’d marble they behold;
    The gates with sculpture grac’d, the spires and tiles of gold. John Dryden, Baucis and Philemon.

    As Jove vouchsaf’d on Ida’s top, ’tis said,
    At poor Philemon’s cot to take a bed. Elijah Fenton.

  3. Cotnoun

    An abridgment of cotquean.

ChatGPT

  1. cot

    Cot, short for Cotangent, is a mathematical function that is defined as the reciprocal of the tangent function in a right triangle, which is the ratio of the adjacent side to the opposite side. More specifically, cot(x) = 1/tan(x). It is also defined as the ratio of x-coordinate to y-coordinate on a unit circle.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cotnoun

    a small house; a cottage or hut

  2. Cotnoun

    a pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote

  3. Cotnoun

    a cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger

  4. Cotnoun

    a small, rudely-formed boat

  5. Cotnoun

    a sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed

  6. Etymology: [OE. cot, cote, AS. cot, cote, cottage; akin to D. & Icel. kot, G. koth, kot, kothe. Cf. Coat.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cot

    kot, n. a small dwelling, a cottage.—ns. Cot′-folk (Scot.), cottars; Cot′-house, a house occupied by a cottar; Cot′-land, land belonging to a cottage; Cot′-quean (Shak.), a man who busies himself with women's affairs.—adj. Cot′ted, lined with cots.—n. Cot′-town, a number of cot-houses. [A.S. cot; cf. Ice. kot, Dut. kot.]

  2. Cot

    kot, n. a small bed: a swinging bed of canvas, suspended from the beams of a ship, for the officers: a bed for a child, a crib. [Anglo-Ind.—Hind. khāt.]

  3. Cot

    kot, n. a small boat. [Ir.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. COT

    A snooze for one. COTILLON A dance for eight.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. cot

    A wooden bed-frame suspended from the beams of a ship for the officers, between decks. It is inclosed in canvas, sewed in the form of a chest, about 6 feet long, 1 foot deep, and 2 or 3 feet wide, in which the mattress is laid.

Suggested Resources

  1. COT

    What does COT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the COT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. COT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cot is ranked #72771 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Cot surname appeared 267 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cot.

    71.9% or 192 total occurrences were White.
    14.2% or 38 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    9.7% or 26 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for cot »

  1. CTO

  2. Oct

  3. Oct.

  4. OTC

  5. TCO

  6. TOC

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cot in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of cot in a Sentence

  1. Nancy Grace:

    Famous political figures, wealthy people? … This would be the time for her to start naming names. I mean, after the life she's lived in complete and lavish luxury, three hots and a cot – that doesn't look too good for her.

  2. Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images:

    I was in the bed, in the cot, when they opened the door because it's one o'clock and about four or five guys yelling: 'Bill, get up. You're going home,'.

  3. Jason Chaffetz:

    They can get my cot or they can go on my Instagram and pull off a picture if they want, but no, I'm not going to sit for some painting. That's so 1800's. I'm not doing that.

  4. Kent Finlay:

    The truth of the matter is that every major label passed on George Strait, that van had two seats and an Army cot in the back. We took turns driving and riding and sleeping in the cot.

  5. Cesar Espinosa:

    There was really no space for social distancing. … They were only allowed to get up from their cot to use the restroom as well as to shower, everything that was being brought in was temporary. The showers were temporary, they were bringing in temporary restrooms, so this space was not equipped to house anybody, much less children.

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Translations for cot

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  • койка, походно легло, колиба, детско креватчеBulgarian
  • presebWelsh
  • Kinderbett, FeldbettGerman
  • κούνιαGreek
  • camilla, cuna, pesebre, catreSpanish
  • vauvasänky, kenttävuode, pinnasänky, varavuode, lisävuode, mökki, pukkisänky, heteka, lastensänkyFinnish
  • lit de camp, huche, lit de bébéFrench
  • cliabhIrish
  • cottManx
  • branda, lettino da campo, capanna, presepe, casupola, greppia, ditale, casolareItalian
  • ベビーベッド, 小屋Japanese
  • 어린이 침대Korean
  • kinderbed, wieg, ledikantjeDutch
  • barneseng, sprinkelsengNorwegian
  • berço, casebre, catrePortuguese
  • койка, кроватка, раскладушка, усадьба, хижина, подвесная постель, лачугаRussian
  • креветац, dečji krevetac, dječji krevetac, krevetac, дјечји креветац, дечји креветацSerbo-Croatian
  • columnVietnamese
  • flegülabedVolapük
  • באַנקבעטלYiddish

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