speck
IPA: spˈɛk
noun
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
- A surname from German.
verb
- (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
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Examples of "speck" in Sentences
- It is a splotch, not a speck.
- The scientists found a speck on a metal.
- The speck was noticed by only some of researchers.
- He was a student of the anthropologist Frank Speck.
- The animals are just a speck in the variation of life.
- The color is variable, with specks of green and brown.
- The fragments ranged in size from a speck to a couple of inches.
- It was a speck in the desert compared to the other controversies.
- It is not meaningful to say that the universe is that speck of lint.
- Don't ignore the log in your eye before pointing the speck in others' eyes.
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