spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
ipa: /spɑt/
Forms: form: spots
Etymology: From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”).
Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.
Senses: examples: text: The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.
text: Why do ladybugs have spots?
glosses: A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
examples: text: I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.
glosses: A stain or disfiguring mark.
examples: text: That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin.
text: I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots.
glosses: A pimple, papule or pustule.
glosses: A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
examples: text: Do come 'round on Sunday for a spot of tea, won't you?
synonyms: word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
examples: text: Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots.
glosses: A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
examples: text: I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside.
text: For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met.
text: That spot to which I point is Paradise.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is curs'd."
ref: 1800, William Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well:
text: Yachvilli made it 6-0 with a second sweet strike from 45 metres after Matt Stevens was penalised for collapsing a scrum, and then slid another penalty just wide from the same spot.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
glosses: A location or area.
examples: text: Del Valle has the blessing of a garage, so he doesn't have to claim “dibs” on shoveled street spots himself, he said.
ref: 2011 March 23, “We asked mayoral candidates: Do you support 'dibs' on parking spots?”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
glosses: A parking space.
examples: text: The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An official determination of placement.
glosses: A bright lamp; a spotlight.
examples: text: Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
examples: text: She was in a real spot when she ran into her separated husband while on a date.
synonyms: word: predicament
word: ass in a sling
word: bind
word: bucket of syrup
word: calvary
word: cross
word: cross to bear
word: difficulty
word: dilemma
word: dire straits
word: doghouse
word: fix
word: hole
word: jam
word: kettle of fish
word: ordeal
word: pickle
word: pinch
word: plight
word: predicament
word: quandary
word: quagmire
word: situation
word: spot
word: spot of bother
word: sticky situation
word: sticky wicket
word: tight spot
word: trouble
glosses: A difficult situation.
topics: dance
dancing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
examples: text: The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.
ref: 2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Penalty spot.
examples: text: You've misspelled "terrapin" here. —Whoops. Good spot.
glosses: The act of spotting or noticing something.
glosses: A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
glosses: 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.
glosses: The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
qualifier: brokers' slang
glosses: Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An autosoliton.
examples: text: Twelve spot two five pounds sterling.
translation: £12.25
english: £12.25
topics: business
finance
glosses: A decimal point; point.
glosses: Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
glosses: Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
Hyponyms: sitspot
shot spot
sweet spot
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: age spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: Arago spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: bald spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: beauty spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: Bier spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: blackspot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: blind spot
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word: blue spot
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word: bright spot
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word: brown spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: Brushfield spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: Campbell de Morgan spot
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word: cellspot
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word: center spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: citrus black spot
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word: cold spot
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word: cover the spot
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word: C-spot
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word: dead spot
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word: faceoff spot
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word: five-spot
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word: flat spot
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word: Fordyce spot
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word: Fordyce's spot
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word: forty-spot
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word: Fresnel spot
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word: germinal spot
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word: Gräfenberg spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: grease spot
sense: Terms derived from spot (noun)
word: Great Red Spot
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word: green spot
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word: G-spot
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word: heaven spot
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word: hit the spot
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word: honey spot
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word: hot spot
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word: in a bad spot
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word: Johnny-on-the-spot
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word: leaf spot
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word: lesser spot-nosed monkey
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word: medullary spot
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word: milk spot
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word: Mongolian spot
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word: mother-spot
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word: night spot
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word: no-no spot
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word: oil spot
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word: on-the-spot
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word: on the spot
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word: parking spot
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word: pink spot
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word: plague spot
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word: Poisson spot
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word: power spot
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word: P-spot
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word: put on the spot
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word: Red Spot
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word: rind-oil spot
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word: rind oil spot
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word: riveted to the spot
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word: rooted to the spot
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word: safety spot
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word: sitspot
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word: soft spot
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word: solar spot
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word: spot-backed antshrike
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word: spot-barred
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word: spot beam
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word: spot-billed pelican
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word: spot-breasted lapwing
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word: spot card
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word: spot cash
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word: spot-check
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word: spot check
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word: spot-clean
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word: spot color
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word: spot colour
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word: spot croaker
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word: spot date
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word: spot effect
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word: spot fire
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word: spot hire
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word: spot kick
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word: spot-legged poison frog
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word: spot lens
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word: spot market
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word: spot of bother
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word: spot on
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word: spot-on
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word: spot prawn
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word: spot price
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word: spot prize
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word: spot-red
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word: spot reduction
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word: spot remover
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word: spot report
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word: spot stroke
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word: spot-tailed
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word: spot test
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word: spot-throat
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word: spottish
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word: spot trade
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word: spotty
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word: spot UV
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word: spot welding
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word: spot-winged antshrike
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word: sun spot
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word: tar spot
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word: ten-spot
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word: three-spot seahorse
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word: tight spot
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word: top spot
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word: trouble spot
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word: water spot
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word: weak spot
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word: white spot
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word: white-spot disease
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word: white spot syndrome
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word: wide spot in the road
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word: X marks the spot
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word: yellow spot
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word: yellow-spot cadlina