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speck
[spek]
noun
a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies.
Specks of soot on the window sill.
a very little bit or particle.
We haven't a speck of sugar.
something appearing small by comparison or by reason of distance.
By then the town was just a speck.
verb (used with object)
to mark with, or as with, a speck or specks.
speck
/ ɛ /
noun
a very small mark or spot
a small or tiny piece of something
verb
(tr) to mark with specks or spots
Other Word Forms
- speckedness noun
- speckless adjective
- specklessly adverb
- specklessness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of speck1
Word History and Origins
Origin of speck1
Example Sentences
A small speck in a vast universe is kind of the feeling that was going into the music.
Hudson was born in Hancock, Maine, a speck on the map of 2,500 people best known as the home of Wild Ray’s “Chainsaw Sawyer Artist Live Show.”
Rowling is playing edgelord from the comfort of a life so far removed from reality that the truth is just a speck in the distance.
Initially, these microscopic specks look like little more than space dust floating around the ether until they form almost human shapes.
He has been but a speck of lint on the Lakers’ lapel, a bit of dust at the end of the Lakers’ bench, a small and irrelevant bystander in the Lakers’ long and arduous journey.
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