[syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon]
VERB (1)
1. produce specks in or on;
- Example: "speck the cloth"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Speck \Speck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Specked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Specking.]
To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks
regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as,
paper specked by impurities in the water used in its
manufacture.
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Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold.
--Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Speck \Speck\, n. [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS. spic, D. spek, G.
speck.]
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat
of the hippopotamus.
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Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for
hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling
vessel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Speck \Speck\, n. [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.]
1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small
place of a color different from that of the main
substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on
paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. "Gray sand, with
black specks." --Anson.
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2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of
dust; he has not a speck of money.
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Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean.
--Landor.
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3. (Zool.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea)
common in the Eastern United States.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
speck
n 1: a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
[syn: speck, pinpoint]
2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom,
molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck]
3: a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch
of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch,
jot, speck, soupcon]
v 1: produce specks in or on; "speck the cloth"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
225 Moby Thesaurus words for "speck":
ace, amount, atom, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot,
besprinkle, birthmark, bit, black sheep, blaze, blaze a trail,
blemish, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, bread, caste mark,
chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix,
cicatrize, crumb, cut, dab, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, dash,
daub, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, dole,
dot, dottedness, dram, dredge, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet,
dust, dwarf, earmark, engrave, engraving, eyesore, farthing, flake,
fleck, flick, flour, flyspeck, foreign body, foreign intruder,
fragment, freckle, freckliness, gash, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule,
graving, groat, hack, hair, handful, harlequin, hatch, hint,
impress, imprint, impurity, intruder, iota, iris, jot, lentigo,
line, little, little bit, lota, macula, maculate, maculation,
macule, make a mark, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out,
marking, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia,
minutiae, misfit, mite, modicum, mole, molecule, monkey wrench,
mote, motley, mottle, mottledness, nevus, nick, notch, nutshell,
oddball, ounce, particle, patch, pebble, pencil, pepper, pinch,
pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, pointillage, pointillism,
polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, powder, prick, print, punch,
punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, scar, scarification, scarify,
score, scotch, scrap, scratch, scratching, scruple, seal, seam,
sliver, smear, smidgen, smidgin, smirch, smitch, smouch, smudge,
smut, smutch, snip, snippet, spangle, spatter, speckle,
speckliness, splash, splatter, splinter, splotch, spoonful, spot,
spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp, stigma,
stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, stone,
strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stud, suggestion,
suspicion, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, tessellate,
thimbleful, tick, tick off, tinge, tiny bit, tittle, touch, trace,
trifling amount, trivia, underline, underscore, vanishing point,
variegate, vein, watermark, weed, whit