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See Speck

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /spek/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-speck.ogg



Noun

  1. A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.


Translations

et:speck fr:speck io:speck lt:speck hu:speck ru:speck ta:speck te:speck vi:speck zh:speck

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Speck \Speck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Specked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Specking.]
To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks
regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as,
paper specked by impurities in the water used in its
manufacture.
[1913 Webster]

Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold.
--Milton.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Speck \Speck\, n. [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS. spic, D. spek, G.
speck.]
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat
of the hippopotamus.
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Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for
hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling
vessel.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Speck \Speck\, n. [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.]
1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small
place of a color different from that of the main
substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on
paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. "Gray sand, with
black specks." --Anson.
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2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of
dust; he has not a speck of money.
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Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean.
--Landor.
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3. (Zool.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea)
common in the Eastern United States.
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WordNet speck
n 1: a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
[syn: pinpoint]
2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom,
molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote]
3: a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a
touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch,
jot, soupcon]
v : produce specks in or on; "speck the cloth"
Moby Dictionary
ace , amount , atom , band , bar , bespangle , bespeckle , bespot ,
besprinkle , birthmark , bit , black sheep , blaze , blaze a trail ,
blemish , bloodstain , blot , blotch , blur , brand , bread , caste mark ,
chalk , chalk up , check , check off , checker , checkmark , cicatrix ,
cicatrize , crumb , cut , dab , dapple , dappledness , dappleness , dash ,
daub , define , delimit , demarcate , discolor , discoloration , dole ,
dot , dottedness , dram , dredge , dribble , driblet , drop , droplet ,
dust , dwarf , earmark , engrave , engraving , eyesore , farthing , flake ,
fleck , flick , flour , flyspeck , foreign body , foreign intruder ,
fragment , freckle , freckliness , gash , gnat , gobbet , grain , granule ,
graving , groat , hack , hair , handful , harlequin , hatch , hint ,
impress , imprint , impurity , intruder , iota , iris , jot , lentigo ,
line , little , little bit , lota , macula , maculate , maculation ,
macule , make a mark , marble , marbleize , mark , mark off , mark out ,
marking , microbe , microorganism , midge , minim , minimum , minutia ,
minutiae , misfit , mite , modicum , mole , molecule , monkey wrench ,
mote , motley , mottle , mottledness , nevus , nick , notch , nutshell ,
oddball , ounce , particle , patch , pebble , pencil , pepper , pinch ,
pinhead , pinpoint , pittance , point , pointillage , pointillism ,
polka dot , polychrome , polychromize , powder , prick , print , punch ,
punctuate , puncture , rainbow , riddle , scar , scarification , scarify ,
score , scotch , scrap , scratch , scratching , scruple , seal , seam ,
sliver , smear , smidgen , smidgin , smirch , smitch , smouch , smudge ,
smut , smutch , snip , snippet , spangle , spatter , speckle ,
speckliness , splash , splatter , splinter , splotch , spoonful , spot ,
spottedness , spottiness , sprinkle , stain , stamp , stigma ,
stigmatize , stipple , stippledness , stippling , stone ,
strawberry mark , streak , striate , stripe , stud , suggestion ,
suspicion , taint , tarnish , tattoo , tattoo mark , tessellate ,
thimbleful , tick , tick off , tinge , tiny bit , tittle , touch , trace ,
trifling amount , trivia , underline , underscore , vanishing point ,
variegate , vein , watermark , weed , whit


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