Meaning & use
jot
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To write something down quickly and briefly.
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She jotted down the phone number on a napkin before she forgot it.
He jotted a few notes in the margin of his textbook.
A note on using this word
As a noun, "a jot" means an extremely small amount, a sense that survives mainly in the fixed phrase "not one jot."
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Another way to use it
2. noun
An extremely small amount.
He didn't care one jot about what people thought of him.
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