Word Finder - spots

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A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.

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The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.

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A stain or disfiguring mark.

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I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.

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A pimple, papule or pustule.

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I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots.

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A small, unspecified amount or quantity.

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Would you like to come round on Sunday for a spot of lunch?

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A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.

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Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots.

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A location or area.

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For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met.

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A parking space.

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An official determination of placement.

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The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball.

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A bright lamp; a spotlight.

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A brief advertisement or program segment on television.

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Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?

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Difficult situation; predicament.

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She was in a real spot when she ran into her separated husband while on a date.

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One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.

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Penalty spot.

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The act of spotting or noticing something.

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- Whoops. Good spot.

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A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.

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A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.

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The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.

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(in the plural, brokers' slang) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.

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An autosoliton.

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A decimal point; point.

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Twelve spot two five pounds sterling. (ie. £12.25)

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Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.

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Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.

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To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.

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Try to spot the differences between these two pictures.

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To loan a small amount of money to someone.

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I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch.

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To stain; to leave a spot (on).

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Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface.

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To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.

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I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.

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To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.

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To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.

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I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me.

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To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.

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Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.

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To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.

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To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.

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To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.

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The referee had to spot the pink on the blue spot.

Spots flickered in her eyes as she leaned back.

Pick one of the spots Sasha identified.

The movement was strongly supported by King Humbert, whose intrepidity in visiting the most dangerous spots at Busca and Naples while the epidemic was at its height, reassuring the panic-stricken inhabitants by his presence, excited the enthusiasm of his people and the admiration of Europe.

Eureka was a dark Appaloosa with dark spots on white loins, quarters and croup.

The town was choked with visitors, some already staking out their spots with folding chairs to view the later festivities—the last hurrah of the holiday.

If you can't find a fixed rappel, you have to rig one, but at popular climbing spots, like in the ice park, there's lots of choices 'cause it's climbed so much.

The water moved silently over moss and lichen covered slabs of rocks, forming small pools in the low spots.

Dilophia, Rhytisma, &c. Moreover, variegations deceptively like these disease spots are known, e.g.

Brilliantly colored spots and patches follow the action of acid fumes on the vegetation near towns and factories, and such particoloured leaves often present striking resemblance to autumn foliage.

The latter appears mainly in Palestine, and has of late been considerably strengthened by immigration of European Jews, who have almost doubled the population of Jerusalem, and settled upon several fertile spots throughout the Holy Land.

But the material was also subject to other defects, such as moisture lurking between the layers, which might be detected by strokes of the mallet; spots or stains; and spongy strips (taeniae), in which the ink would run and spoil the sheet.

Cleavage sheets are frequently disfigured and rendered of little value by brown, red or black spots and stains, often with a dendritic arrangement of iron oxides.

The outer surface of many of the species presents likewise the most exquisite sculpture, heightened by brilliant shades, or spots of green, red, yellow and bluish black.

Facing the crags on the south-west are the spots familiar to readers of The Heart of Midlothian, where stood Jeanie Deans's cottage, and between the crags and Arthur's Seat lies Hunter's Bog, used as a shooting range.

But of late years the beauties of the Rhine have become sadly marred; the banks in places, especially between Coblenz and Bonn, disfigured by quarrying, the air made dense with the smoke of cement factories and steam-tugs, commanding spots falling a prey to the speculative builder and villages growing into towns.

He dried a glass carefully, studying it against the light for spots.

She was mostly white with freckles across her haunches and a few spots on her neck and chest.

The filly was mostly white with a few brown spots – almost the opposite of her mother.

Black spots clouded her vision as she grabbed the receiver, and then she fell.

Dusty's in Atlanta surveying spots for a new headquarters, and I'm staying right here for now.

The Campidano and other fertile spots, such as the so-called Ogliastra on the east side of the island, inland of Tortoli, the neighbourhood of Oliena, Bosa, &c., produce a considerable quantity of wine, the sweet, strong, white variety called Vernaccia, produced near Oristano, being especially noteworthy.

In the choice of these spots two motives seem to have influenced him - the neighbourhood of a university or college, and the amenities of the situation.

These form what we term spots in the sun.

The record of the signals given by this instrument was an undulating line of fine perforations or spots, and the character and succession of the undulations were used to interpret the signals desired to be sent.

Leeches are usually olive green to brown in colour, darker patches and spots being scattered over a paler ground.

Modern writers have perpetuated the error that the Cassiterides were definite spots, and have made many attempts to identify them.

Schinzia, which forms galllike swellings on the roots of rushes; Gymnosporangium, causing excrescences on juniper stems; numerous leaf Fungi such as Puccinia, Aecidium, Sep/one, &c., causing yellow, brown or black spots on leaves; or Ustilago in the anthers of certain flowers.

Spotted Leaves, &c.Discoloured spots or patches on leaves and other herbaceous parts are common symptoms of disease, and often furnish clues to identification of causes, though it must be remembered that no sharp line divides this class of symptoms from the preceding.

White or grey spots may be due to Peronospora, Erysiphe, Cystopus, Entyloma and other Fungi, the mycelium of which will be detected in the discoloured area; or they may be scale insects, or the results of punctures by Red-spider, &c. Yellow spots, and especially bright orange spots, commonly indicate Rust Fungi or other Uredineae; but Phyllosticta, Exoascus, Clasterosporium, Synchytrium, &c., also induce similar symptoms. Certain Aphides, Red-spider, Phylloxera and other insects also betray their presence by such spots.

The well-known "fire-flies" of the tropics are large click-beetles (Elateridae), that emit light from paired spots on the prothorax and from the base of the ventral abdominal region.

The pronotum and elytra are often adorned with bright colours or metallic lustre, and marked with stripes or spots.

Twenty years of experience and observation had revealed the defects of the earlier legislation, and had concentrated public attention more intelligently than ever before upon the problem of strengthening the weak spots.

Accordingly, whenever His presence and power were displayed in places where the Canaanite Baal had been worshipped, they came to be attached to these spots.

On the other hand, old deities still lurked in old spots which had been for centuries their abode.

The wings, which are not capable of being folded, are usually transparent, but occasionally pigmented and adorned with coloured spots, blotches or bands; the wing-membrane, though sometimes clothed with minute hairs, seldom bears scales; the wing-veins, which are of great importance in the classification of Diptera, are usually few in number and chiefly longitudinal, there being a marked paucity of cross-veins.

In addition there is in this particular genus, as indeed in many others, a long tubular spur or horn projecting downwards from the back of the lip, whose office it is to secrete and store a honeyed juice; the forepart of the lip forms an expanded plate, usually larger and more brightly coloured than the other parts of the flower, and with hairs or ridges and spots of various kinds according to the species.

The vegetation is everywhere most scanty, and scarcely anything deserving the name of a tree is to be found unless in the more sheltered spots, and then artificially planted.

The three pairs of pigmented spots show the position of the eyes on the dorsal surface.

Gymnosporangium sabinae, one of the rusts (Uredineae) passes one stage of its life-history on living pear leaves, forming large raised spots or patches which are at first yellow but soon become red and are visible on both faces; on the lower face of each patch is a group of cluster-cups or aecidia containing spores which escape when ripe.

Among the most celebrated spots are the Vallee de la Solle, the Gorge aux Loups, the Gorges de Franchard and d'Apremont, and the Fort l'Empereur.

Meanwhile, at other favourable spots in the Aegean, but chiefly, it appears, on sites in easy relation to maritime commerce, e.g.

As to the nature of histogenesis, nothing more can be said than that it appears to be a phenomenon similar to embryonic growth, though limited to certain spots.

Many of the species of these spiders, moreover, are very conspicuously coloured, being either wholly black or black relieved by fiery red spots, forcibly suggesting that they are warningly coloured.

Small red-brown spots appear on the bolls, gradually enlarge, and develop into irregular black and grey patches.

The ground colour of the coat is white with yellow spots.

The prevailing colour is tan with large black spots.

Along the banks of the Thames are several small havens whose names have remained to us, such as Rotherhithe, Lambhith (Lambeth), Chelchith (Chelsea), &c., and it is not unlikely that the Saxons, who would not settle in the city itself, associated themselves with these small open spots.

At first these are marked only by small brown spots; but the spots spread and fuse together, the skin of the grape is destroyed, and the flesh decays, the seed only remaining apparently untouched.

On the upper side of the leaf, where it is first visible, it forms pale green irregular spots, which become darker in colour.

The centre of the spots on the grapes becomes darker as the disease advances, and a red line appears dividing the dark brown border into an outer and an inner rim and giving a very characteristic appearance to the diseased plant.