spot
IPA: spˈɑt
noun
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A location or area.
- A parking space.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- A difficult situation.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- A popular given name for a dog.
verb
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- (US, slang) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
adjective
- (commerce, finance) Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.
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Examples of "spot" in Sentences
- Did he weld the spot
- The curtain is spotted.
- I circle the spots with the pencil.
- The apple is decayed several spots.
- There is not a spot will you beguile.
- The spot is visible in the background.
- Outside of the $1.60 an hour trying to find a spot is a PITA as well.
- An angel points to the plague spot, the attribute of the deadly disease.
- The direction of movement of the luminous dot is changed in each mounting spot.
- He is also a good three point shooter, both from the spot and from the dribble.
- He further said that Chelsea will make a strong comeback to gain the title spot back.
- I think the term spot reduction was created in order to try to market various fitness or fat loss products.
- There are, however, few spots in this literary luminary now pointed out that have not been discovered before.
- So in case you're wondering how all the other lovely ladies fared, here's a break-up of the runners-up to the title spot!
- Kemmerer clinched his title spot on Saturday with a 1-0 decision over Western State College's Marques Bravo, using an escape in the second tiebreaker.
- More specifically. briandonnelly @MaileShoul Oh there is one in the house - took the title spot from Tori Spelling's novella. delicacy Tori Spelling @ 7th Anniversary Of Belle Gray Boutique
- This description implies the assemblage of strangers from all parts in one spot; -- _from all parts_; else, how will you find professors and students for every department of knowledge? and _in one spot_; else, how can there be any school at all?
- Here, in a Toussaint arrangement that is the soul of the term spot-on, trumpeter Nicholas Payton shows just how deeply he understands this happy, jaunty number in a free, easy, yet deceptively commanding performance of the song's famous changes.
- Or (if the elastic cord has already been fastened) we may remove the eye-tube and shift the telescope-tube about -- the direction in which the sun lies being roughly known -- until we see the spot of light received down the telescope's axis grow brighter and brighter and finally become a _spot of sun-light_.