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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