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.
- A fluttering gray speck is all that will be left of me.
- 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.
- a little brown speck is pointed out as the Convent of the Pulley.
- 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.
- Im sure they just came to this country because they dont speck a word of english.
- DORNIN: Witnesses to the first shooting say the speck is a white man, balding in his 40s driving a tan F-140 pickup.
- Hedrock knew that the speck was a magnified version of the reality, which was too small to make out with the naked eye.
- Yes | No | Report from mlutz95 wrote 43 weeks 4 days ago ocean kayaks make great kayaks. the model "speck" is what we have.
- The flower on which this speck is situated is however stolen and carried away by the black-bottomed eagle named Vlad Vlad-i-koff.
- a "speck" (an interesting word: a speck is sometimes thought of as a minute mark, almost too small to see, or as a speck that is in the eye, on the retina itself): a glittering pane of glass.
- _ -- At daybreak a speck was seen in the horizon; now it is visible above the hollow wave, now curtained from our sight by the swelling billow: we approach nearer; the speck divides, and two spots appear; they are Calypso's Isles, --