[syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]
5. become spotted;
- Example: "This dress spots quickly"
6. mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition;
- Example: "spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spot \Spot\ (sp[o^]t), n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw.
spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See Spit
to eject from the mouth, and cf. Spatter.]
1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a
blot; a place discolored.
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say! --Shak.
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2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils
purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
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Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --Pope.
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3. A small part of a different color from the main part, or
from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a
leopard; the spots on a playing card.
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4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
"Fixed to one spot." --Otway.
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That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton.
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"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."
--Wordsworth.
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5. (Zool.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called
from a spot on its head just above its beak.
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6. (Zool.)
(a) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the
Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black
spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark
bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette,
masooka, and old wife.
(b) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot
on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
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7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for
immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant]
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Crescent spot (Zool.), any butterfly of the family
Melitaeidae having crescent-shaped white spots along the
margins of the red or brown wings.
Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the
light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a
small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field
illumination; -- called also spotted lens.
Spot rump (Zool.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa
haemastica).
Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun.
On the spot, or Upon the spot, immediately; before
moving; without changing place; as, he made his decision
on the spot.
It was determined upon the spot. --Swift.
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Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault;
blemish; place; site; locality.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spot \Spot\, v. i.
To become stained with spots.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spot \Spot\ (sp[o^]t), a.
Lit., being on the spot, or place; hence (Com.), on hand for
immediate delivery after sale; -- said of commodities; as,
spot wheat.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spot \Spot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spotting.]
1. To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to
discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots
or figures; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper.
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2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize;
to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant]
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3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish,
as reputation; to asperse.
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My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
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If ever I shall close these eyes but once,
May I live spotted for my perjury. --Beau. & Fl.
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To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for
hewing.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
spot
n 1: a point located with respect to surface features of some
region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot
on a planet" [syn: topographic point, place, spot]
2: a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv
programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
3: an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the
high points of the movie" [syn: point, spot]
4: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
5: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a
leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice";
"a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple, patch,
fleck, maculation]
6: a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific
performer or performance; "they changed his spot on the
program"
7: a business establishment for entertainment; "night spot"
8: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the
treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office,
spot, billet, place, situation]
9: a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism"
[syn: touch, spot]
10: a small piece or quantity of something; "a spot of tea"; "a
bit of paper"; "a bit of lint"; "I gave him a bit of my
mind" [syn: spot, bit]
11: a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the
suit) [syn: spot, pip]
12: a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a
restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage
performer [syn: spotlight, spot]
13: a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to
indicate its value; "an eight-spot"
14: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he
made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear,
smirch, spot, stain]
v 1: catch sight of [syn: descry, spot, espy, spy]
2: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out
of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make
out the faces in this photograph" [syn: spot, recognize,
recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make
out, tell apart]
3: mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished" [syn:
blemish, spot]
4: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]
5: become spotted; "This dress spots quickly"
6: mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition;
"spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
494 Moby Thesaurus words for "spot":
CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display,
RF echoes, abode, ace, acne, aimless, allocate, appointment, arc,
arc light, area, ascertain, aspersion, assign, atom, attaint,
badge of infamy, band, bar, bar sinister, baton, beam, bearings,
beat signal, bedabble, bedaub, behold, bench mark, bend sinister,
berth, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, bespangle, bespatter,
bespeckle, bespot, besprinkle, billet, bind, birthmark, bit, bite,
black, black eye, black mark, blacken, blaze, blaze a trail,
blemish, blips, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, boils, bounces,
box, brand, bread, broad arrow, case, caste mark, catch,
catch sight of, censure, chalk up, champain, check, check off,
checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, circumstance,
clap eyes on, clutch, collocate, color filter, commercial,
commercial announcement, complication, condition, connection,
corner, crumb, crunch, cut, dab, dabble, dapple, dappledness,
dappleness, dash, daub, define, delimit, demarcate, deploy, descry,
designless, detect, determinate, diagnose, dilemma, dimmer, dirty,
discern, discolor, discoloration, discover, disparagement, display,
dispose, distinguish, district, dole, dollop, dot, dottedness,
double-dot display, draft, dram, dredge, drench, dribble, driblet,
drink, drop, dust, dwarf, earmark, echo, echo signal,
embarrassing position, embarrassment, emplace, emplacement,
encounter, engrave, engraving, eruptions, espy, estate, eyesore,
farthing, fine how-do-you-do, finger, fix, flake, fleck, flick,
floats, flood, floodlight, flour, flyspeck, footing, footlights,
foots, fragment, freckle, freckliness, gargle, gash, gelatin,
get a fix, glimpse, gobbet, grain, granule, graving, groat, guzzle,
hack, hair, handful, haphazard, harlequin, hatch, have,
have in sight, hell to pay, hit, hit-or-miss, hobble, hole,
home in on, home on, hot water, how-do-you-do, identify, imbroglio,
impress, imprint, imputation, install, intersperse, iota, iris,
irregular, jam, jigger, jolt, jot, ken, klieg light, know,
know again, latitude and longitude, lay eyes on, lentigo, libation,
lieu, light plot, lights, limelight, line, little, little bit, lob,
local oscillator signal, locale, locality, localize, locate,
location, locus, look on, look upon, lot, lota, macula, maculate,
maculation, macule, make a mark, make out, map, marble, marbleize,
mark, mark of Cain, mark off, mark out, marking, marquee, medium,
meet with, mess, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mix, modality,
mode, modicum, mole, molecule, morass, morsel, mote, motley,
mottle, mottledness, nail, navigate, nevus, nick, nip, notch,
notice, nutshell, observe, odium, office, onus, ounce,
output signal, parlous straits, particle, pass, patch, pebble, peg,
pencil, pepper, perceive, pick out, pick up, pickle, picture,
pillorying, pimple, pin down, pinch, pinpoint, pips, pittance,
place, placement, plight, plug, point, point champain, pointillage,
pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, position, post,
posture, potation, potion, powder, predicament, pretty pass,
pretty pickle, pretty predicament, prick, print, pull, punch,
punctuate, puncture, put in place, quagmire, quandary, quarter,
quicksand, radar signal, rainbow, rank, reading, realize,
recall knowledge of, receive, recognize, reflection, region,
reidentify, reprimand, reproach, return, return signal, riddle,
round, round of drinks, scan, scar, scarification, scarify, scene,
score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratching, scruple, seal, seam,
section, sector, see, sense, setting, shot, sight, signal,
signal display, single out, sip, site, situate, situation, situs,
slapdash, slough, slubber, slug, slur, smear, smidgen, smidgin,
smirch, smitch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, snifter, snort, soil,
soilage, soilure, spangle, spatter, speck, speckle, speckliness,
splash, splatter, splotch, spoonful, spot announcement, spotlight,
spots, spottedness, spottiness, spray, sprinkle, spy, squeeze,
stain, stamp, standing, state, station, status, stead, stew,
sticky wicket, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize,
stipple, stippledness, stippling, strait, straits, strawberry mark,
streak, striate, stripe, stud, suck, sully, sup, swamp, sweep,
swig, swill, taint, take in, target image, tarnish, tattoo,
tattoo mark, tell, tessellate, thimbleful, tick, tick off,
tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tiny bit, tittle, tot, trace,
transmitter signal, triangulate, tricky spot, trifling amount,
trigger, trivia, tune in, turn up, twig, unconsidered, underline,
underscore, unholy mess, unplanned, variegate, vein, video signal,
view, watermark, wet, where, whereabout, whereabouts, whit,
witness, zero in on
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
SPOT
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