 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spot
noun
1: a point located with respect to surface features of some
region; "this is a nice place for a picnic" [syn: {topographic
point}, {place}]
2: a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv
programs or in a magazine) that is often used for
advertising
3: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
{smudge}, {blot}, {daub}, {smear}, {smirch}, {slur}]
4: 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: {speckle}, {dapple}, {patch},
{fleck}, {maculation}]
5: a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific
performer or performance; "they changed his spot on the
program"
6: an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the
high points of the movie" [syn: {point}]
7: a business establishment for entertainment; "night spot"
8: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the
treasury" [syn: {position}, {post}, {berth}, {office}, {billet},
{place}, {situation}]
9: a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism"
[syn: {touch}]
10: a small quantity; "a spot of tea"; "a bit of paper" [syn: {bit}]
11: a mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) [syn:
{pip}]
12: a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a
restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage
performer [syn: {spotlight}]
13: a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to
indicate its value; "an eight spot"
14: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he
made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: {blot}, {smear},
{smirch}, {stain}]
verb
1: catch sight of [syn: {descry}, {espy}, {spy}]
2: mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished" [syn: {blemish}]
3: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[syn: {fleck}, {blob}, {blot}]
4: become spotted; "This dress spots quickly"
5: mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition;
"spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
[also: {spotting}, {spotted}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spot \Spot\ (sp[o^]t), noun [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.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! --Shak.
2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils
purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --Pope.
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.
4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
''Fixed to one spot.'' --Otway.
That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton.
''A jolly place,'' said he, ''in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.''
--Wordsworth.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so
called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
6. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A sci[ae]noid 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}.
7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for
immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant]
{Crescent spot} (Zo["o]l.), any butterfly of the family
{Melit[ae]id[ae]} 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} (Zo["o]l.), the Hudsonian godwit ({Limosa
h[ae]mastica}).
{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.
Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault;
blemish; place; site; locality.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spot \Spot\, verb (used with an object) [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.
2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize;
to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant]
3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish,
as reputation; to asperse.
My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
If ever I shall close these eyes but once,
May I live spotted for my perjury. --Beau. & Fl.
{To spot timber}, to cut or chip it, in preparation for
hewing.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spot \Spot\, verb (used without an object)
To become stained with spots.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spot \Spot\ (sp[o^]t), adjective
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.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
494 Moby Thesaurus words for "spot":
CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display,
RF echoes, 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, 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, dole, dollop, 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, 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, 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
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