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Spots

noun

1.

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens. Synonyms: floater, musca volitans, muscae volitantes.

Spot

noun

1.

A point located with respect to surface features of some region. Synonyms: place, topographic point. "A bright spot on a planet"

2.

A short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising.

3.

An outstanding characteristic. Synonym: point.

4.

A blemish made by dirt. Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge.

5.

A small contrasting part of something. Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, speckle. "A leopard's spots" , "A patch of clouds" , "Patches of thin ice" , "A fleck of red"

6.

A section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance.

7.

A business establishment for entertainment.

8.

A job in an organization. Synonyms: berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation.

9.

A slight attack of illness. Synonym: touch.

10.

A small piece or quantity of something. Synonym: bit. "A bit of paper" , "A bit of lint" , "I gave him a bit of my mind"

11.

A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit). Synonym: pip.

12.

A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer. Synonym: spotlight.

13.

A playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value.

14.

An act that brings discredit to the person who does it. Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, stain.

verb

(past & past part. spotted; pres. part. spotting)

1.

Catch sight of. Synonyms: descry, espy, spy.

2.

Detect with the senses. Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart. "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

3.

Mar or impair with a flaw. Synonym: blemish.

4.

Make a spot or mark onto. Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck.

5.

Become spotted.

6.

Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition.

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"Spots" Quotes from Famous Books

... archer can lend to his shaft. Then there was an absurd game of throwing a stick at crockery-ware, which I have witnessed a hundred times, and personally engaged in once or twice, without ever having the satisfaction to see a bit of broken crockery. In other spots you found donkeys for children to ride, and ponies of a very meek and patient spirit, on which the Cockney pleasure-seekers of both sexes rode races and made wonderful displays of horsemanship. ...

— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... They had gone, and left no address. At last an elderly man appeared, whom I took to be the proprietor, and all he could tell us was that there was no one but himself in the building. Of all the desolate spots in the world I think that an empty hotel is the most desolate, and when you have very fair reason to believe that a considerable number of guns are having a competition as to which can drop a shell into it first, it becomes positively depressing. We got into ...

— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

... of the Chilicauquen. At its base there were many fine evergreen forest-trees, but these flourished only in the ravines, where there was running water. Any person who had seen only the country near Valparaiso, would never have imagined that there had been such picturesque spots in Chile. As soon as we reached the brow of the Sierra, the valley of Quillota was immediately under our feet. The prospect was one of remarkable artificial luxuriance. The valley is very broad and quite flat, and is thus easily irrigated in all parts. The little ...

— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin

... people coming and going—the girls in their light dresses and bright ribbons made a pleasant place of the lawn, with its background of shining water. The tennis court, at one side of the house, was one of the favorite gathering spots; there were one or two boats out on the lake. The pleasant informality of the whole affair proved its ...

— The S. W. F. Club • Caroline E. Jacobs

... return trip—knowing exactly where the thing happened—I went into the forest and searched. I found spots of blood. I found signs of the struggle; that was all. There wasn't any dead ...

— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton

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