noun
- A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
- usage: "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"
- synonyms: topographic point, place, spot
- A short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising.
- synonyms: spot
- An outstanding characteristic.
- usage: "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
- A blemish made by dirt.
- usage: "he had a smudge on his cheek"
- A small contrasting part of something.
- usage: "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
- A section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance.
- usage: "they changed his spot on the program"
- synonyms: spot
- A business establishment for entertainment.
- usage: "night spot"
- synonyms: spot
- A job in an organization.
- usage: "he occupied a post in the treasury"
- A slight attack of illness.
- usage: "he has a touch of rheumatism"
- A small piece or quantity of something.
- usage: "a spot of tea"; "a bit of paper"; "a bit of lint"; "I gave him a bit of my mind"
- A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit.
- A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer.
- A playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value.
- usage: "an eight-spot"
- synonyms: spot
- An act that brings discredit to the person who does it.
- usage: "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
- Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens.
- usage: "floaters seem to drift through the field of vision"
- synonyms: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, floater
verb
- Catch sight of.
- Detect with the senses.
- usage: "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
- synonyms: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
- Mar or impair with a flaw.
- usage: "her face was blemished"
- Make a spot or mark onto.
- usage: "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
- Become spotted.
- usage: "This dress spots quickly"
- synonyms: spot
- Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition.
- usage: "spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
- synonyms: spot
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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