spot

Meaning

1. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
2. A stain or disfiguring mark.
3. A pimple, papule or pustule.
4. A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
5. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
6. (slang) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
7. A location or area.
8. A parking space.
9. An official determination of placement.
10. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
11. A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
12. A difficult situation.
13. One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
14. Penalty spot.
15. The act of spotting or noticing something.
16. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
17. 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.
18. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
19. Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
20. An autosoliton.
21. A decimal point; point.
22. Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
23. Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.

stain

maculation

spot commercial

bright spot

topographic point

spot advertising

luminescent spot

luminous spot

small piece

spot announcement

virgule

discolorise

discolorize

discolourise

lay eyes on

notch up

recognize identify

scout out

small amount

small bit

take note of

see from a distance

dark spot

look closely

point on a map

scattered in drops

lightspot

scratches on a gem

remark on

tourist centre

raptus

show-stopper

spot pass

view as

spot of light

direct attention to

become stained

brightened dot

bright point

reconnaissance objective

light-spot

bad mark

blank space

catch side of

cause to take place

exploring spot

make a note

public square

residential area

right there

rust

scandal

scent

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɒt/

From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.

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