'SPOT' definitions:
Definition of 'spot'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
noun
A short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
noun
An outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie" [syn: point, spot]
noun
A blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
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" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation]
noun
A section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance; "they changed his spot on the program"
noun
A business establishment for entertainment; "night spot"
noun
A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation]
noun
A slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism" [syn: touch, spot]
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" [syn: spot, bit]
noun
A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) [syn: spot, pip]
noun
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]
noun
A playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value; "an eight-spot"
noun
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]
verb
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" [syn: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart]
verb
Mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished" [syn: blemish, spot]
verb
verb
Become spotted; "This dress spots quickly"
verb
Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
Definition of 'Spot'
From: GCIDE
- Spot \Spot\, v. i. To become stained with spots. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spot'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
Definition of 'Spot'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Out, damned spot! Out, I say! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. [1913 Webster]
- Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. "Fixed to one spot." --Otway. [1913 Webster]
- That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spot'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant] [1913 Webster]
- 3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse. [1913 Webster]
- My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- CRT spot,
- 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,
- DM display,
- dole,
- dollop,
- Doppler signal,
- 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,
- IF signal,
- IM display,
- 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,
- RF echoes,
- 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
Acronyms for 'spot'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Smart Personal Object Technology (MS, Internet)
Words containing 'SPOT'
- On the spot,
- Spotted,
- Spotting,
- spots,
- Beauty spot,
- Blind spot,
- Crescent spot,
- Germinal spot,
- Germinative spot,
- Johnny on the spot,
- Liver spots,
- Plague spot,
- Solar spots,
- Spot cash,
- Spot lens,
- Spot rump,
- Spot stroke,
- Spots on the sun,
- Spotted fever,
- Spotted tortoise,
- Spotted tree,
- Spotted turbot,
- Spotted weakfish,
- Spotted wintergreen,
- Sun spots,
- To spot timber,
- Upon the spot,
- Yellow spot,
- black spot,
- cleanup spot,
- halo spot,
- high spot,
- hot spot,
- koplik's spots,
- liver spot,
- night spot,
- on-the-spot,
- soft spot,
- sore spot,
- spot check,
- spot jam,
- spot jamming,
- spot market,
- spot pass,
- spot price,
- spot promote,
- spot weld,
- spot welder,
- spot welding,
- spotted antbird,
- spotted barramundi,
- spotted bat,
- spotted bonytongue,
- spotted cowbane,
- spotted crake,
- spotted cranesbill,
- spotted dick,
- spotted flycatcher,
- spotted gum,
- spotted hemlock,
- spotted hind,
- spotted hyena,
- spotted lens,
- spotted lynx,
- spotted owl,
- spotted ray,
- spotted salamander,
- spotted sandpiper,
- spotted skunk,
- spotted squeateague,
- spotted sunfish,
- spotted turtle,
- tender spot,
- tight spot,
- vacation spot,
- weak spot,
- worn spot,
- Cinque-spotted,
- Eye-spot,
- Eye-spotted,
- Forty-spot,
- G-spot,
- chihuahuan spotted whiptail,
- common spotted orchid,
- dark-spotted,
- eight-spot,
- five-spot,
- four-spot,
- hit the high spots,
- little spotted skunk,
- maroon-spotted,
- nine-spot,
- one-spot,
- purple-spotted,
- seven-spot,
- six-spot,
- spot-check,
- spot-weld,
- spot-welder,
- spot-welding,
- spotted black bass,
- spotted bower bird,
- spotted coral root,
- spotted eagle ray,
- spotted rock trout,
- spotted sand flounder,
- spotted sea trout,
- spotted water hemlock,
- ten-spot,
- yellow spot fungus,
- yellow-spotted,
- black-spotted trout,
- liver-spotted dalmatian,
- red-spotted purple,
- red-spotted trout,
- rocky mountain spotted fever,
- two-spotted ladybug,
- spotted joe-pye weed,
- white-spotted eagle ray