speck

IPA: spˈɛk

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.

Examples of "speck" in Sentences

A fluttering gray speck is all that will be left of me.
a little brown speck is pointed out as the Convent of the Pulley.
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, --