Spot
[spɒt] or [spɑt]
Definition
(noun.) a business establishment for entertainment; 'night spot'.
(noun.) a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value; 'an eight-spot'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance; 'they changed his spot on the program'.
(noun.) a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising.
(noun.) a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit).
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; 'spot the areas that one should clearly identify'.
(verb.) become spotted; 'This dress spots quickly'.
(verb.) make a spot or mark onto; 'The wine spotted the tablecloth'.
(verb.) 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'.
Typed by Alice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
(n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
(n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
(n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
(v. t.) 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 garnment; to spot paper.
(v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
(v. i.) To become stained with spots.
Checker: Natalia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Speck, blot.[2]. Blemish, stain, taint, flaw.[3]. Place, locality.
v. a. [1]. Make spots on, dapple, variegate.[2]. Stain, sully, soil, tarnish, blemish.[3]. [Cant term,] Mark, take special note of.
Typist: Tim
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stain, blot, blemish, locality, site, place, {[See ~]?}
Checker: Patty
Definition
n. a mark made by a drop of wet matter: a blot: a discoloured place: a small part of a different colour: a small extent of space: any particular place: one of the marked points on a billiard-table from which balls are played (for Centre-spot Pyramid-spot &c. see Billiards): one of the dark places on the surface of the sun &c.: something that soils: a stain on character or reputation.—v.t. to mark with drops of wet: to stain: to discolour: to taint: to tarnish as reputation: to note or recognise by some point to detect: to indicate name:—pr.p. spot′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. spot′ted.—adj. Spot′less without a spot: untainted: pure.—adv. Spot′lessly.—ns. Spot′lessness; Spot′-stroke a stroke in billiards when the player pockets the red ball from the 'spot ' leaving his own ball in position to repeat the stroke.—adjs. Spot′ted Spot′ty marked with spots or discoloured places.—ns. Spot′tedness the state of being spotted; Spot′ter one who spots or detects; Spot′tiness state of being spotty.—Spot-barred game a game at billiards when the spot-stroke is forbidden to be played more than twice consecutively.
Typed by Beryl
Examples
- Being the most polite of men, he seized the opportunity of assisting the Professor's anatomical amusements on the spot. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It's the old man on top who's in a bad spot. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Now, she adds, show me the spot again! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Some days had passed since I had visited the spot. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The poor creature interrupted me with loud sobs, which produced such a dreadful fit of coughing, I thought that she would have expired on the spot. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The poor little dog's eyes were glazing fast, and there were spots of blood on its glossy white side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A frame holding the machine is set up over the spots. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To whom entered Mrs Gowan, with her favourite green fan, which softened the light on the spots of bloom. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The color is a yellowish gray on the back, spotted with yellow and brown; the belly white or red, with golden spots in young specimens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And he's spotted, and I know with what, and with whose. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I spotted that harpoon upon the wall, and I thought I might need it before I was through. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The color is a yellowish gray on the back, spotted with yellow and brown; the belly white or red, with golden spots in young specimens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I do not know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which she used. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They did not want to have any movement on the road spotted by planes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had spotted the place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I had bought a spotted wooden horse over-night as a parting gift to little Wilkins Micawber--that was the boy--and a doll for little Emma. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was a burst of the spot-spot-spotting fire of the cavalry submachine gun, then another, then another. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Checked by Dick