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cot

1

[ kot ]

noun

  1. a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
  2. British. a child's crib.
  3. a light bedstead.
  4. Nautical. a hammocklike bed stiffened by a suspended frame.


cot

2

[ kot ]

noun

  1. a small house; cottage; hut.
  2. a small place of shelter.
  3. a sheath or protective covering, as for an injured finger or toe.

cot

3

abbreviation for

Trigonometry.

cot

1

/ ɒ /

noun

  1. a child's boxlike bed, usually incorporating vertical bars
  2. a collapsible or portable bed
  3. a light bedstead
  4. nautical a hammock-like bed with a stiff frame
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cot

2

/ ɒ /

noun

  1. literary.
    a small cottage
  2. Also calledcote
    1. a small shelter, esp one for pigeons, sheep, etc
    2. ( in combination )

      dovecot

  3. another name for fingerstall
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cot

3

/ ɒ /

abbreviation for

  1. cotangent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cot

4

/ ɒ /

verb

  1. dialect.
    to entangle or become entangled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cot

  1. Abbreviation of cotangent
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cot1

1625–35; < Hindi < Prakrit ṭṭ < Sanskrit ṭv; akin to Tamil kattil bedstead

Origin of cot2

before 900; Middle English, Old English cot (neuter; cote 1 ); cognate with Old Norse kot hut; akin to cubby, cove 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cot1

C17: from Hindi bedstead, from Sanskrit áٱ, of Dravidian origin; related to Tamil kattil bedstead

Origin of cot2

Old English cot; related to Old Norse kot little hut, Middle Low German cot
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The report found that child deaths were more likely to occur when homelessness was combined with overcrowding, mould and a lack of access to safer sleep options, such as cots and Moses baskets.

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At the Pasadena Convention Center, responders scrambled to provide cots, medical supplies and care for streams of incoming evacuees.

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The center is also operating as a makeshift shelter with about 30 cots.

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They sat side by side on a cot, surrounded by dozens of other evacuees in the Pasadena Convention Center, a holding place for upended lives.

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During a site visit to the camp in September, the court saw rips in some of the tents and rats nesting above military cots that the migrants were given as beds.

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