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speck

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speck \Speck\, n. [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.] 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. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context countable English) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. vb. (context transitive English) To mark with specks; to speckle. Etymology 2 n. 1 The blubber of whales or other marine mammals. 2 The fat of the hippopotamus.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Speck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christa Speck (born 1942), German model and actress Cliff Speck (born 1956), American baseball player Dutch Speck (1886–1952), American football player Frank Speck (1881–1950), American anthropologist ...

Usage examples of speck.

By the time Yama had waded to shore, the coracle was already far off, a black speck on the shining plane of the river, making a long, curved path toward a raft of banyan islands far from shore.

When he used his magnifier screen, he saw the specks of Raptors circling and darting in the distance.

If an alien probe is there, could we spot it among the countless dots and specks that will represent stars, micrometeorites, planetoids, photographic plate flaws, and dust?

Haeckel represents the aggregate of a million moneras visibly covering the sea-bottom, but germinated from one invisible speck.

Since the theory unifies the laws of the large and of the small, laws that govern physics out to the farthest reaches of the cosmos and down to the smallest speck of matter, there are many avenues by which one can approach the subject.

True, the girl from Physiotherapy had bags under her eyes and Harry was a little pale, but Mr Grenfell looked exactly as he always did, not a well groomed hair out of place, not a speck on his well cut suit, and since his eyelids drooped over his eyes anyway, it was impossible to tell if he was tired or not.

It directs five-point-three teratogauss of magnetic force on that tiny little speck of praseodymium there.

The ghosts of a thousand potential worlds radiated out from the speck of praseodymium as it plunged down through absolute zero and into the nameless realms beyond.

The Agent saw the frantic, running specks which were men and women in panic, he saw a sheet of flame in the street, and his lips compressed grimly as he realized that this was the burning body of Ranny Coulter.

Let us not turn then against it and deny its existence with too many brazen instruments, but remember these are but a means, and that the vast lens of the Californian refractor is but glass--it is the infinite speck upon which the ray of light will fall that is the one great fact of the universe.

Lieutenant Speck lunged forward from his place behind Caffey in the snowcat, pointing ahead.

I would survive this ice in my sporangial casing, as a windblown speck of lichen will last out decades to spread at last into devouring life.

The air to sunward was full of wheeling birds and cursing riders, a great column of specks curving high into the sky with its base close above the fields and terraces on the sunward side of Rakarr.

The little group of black specks with the flag of white had been swept out of existence, and the stillness of the evening, so it seemed to me, had scarcely been broken.

The speck of frozen urine currently thawing against his thigh was reminder enough of that.