patched, spotty, spotted
(adjective) having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); “a field patched with ice and snow”; “the wall had a spotty speckled effect”; “a black-and-white spotted cow”
spot
(verb) mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; “spot the areas that one should clearly identify”
spot
(verb) become spotted; “This dress spots quickly”
spot, fleck, blob, blot
(verb) make a spot or mark onto; “The wine spotted the tablecloth”
blemish, spot
(verb) mar or impair with a flaw; “her face was blemished”
descry, spot, espy, spy
(verb) catch sight of
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
(verb) detect with the senses; “The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards”; “I can’t make out the faces in this photograph”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spotted (comparative more spotted, superlative most spotted)
Discoloured by spots; stained.
(no comparative or superlative) Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).
• (discoloured by spots): blotched, blotchy, stained, spotty
spotted
simple past tense and past participle of spot
Source: Wiktionary
Spot"ted, a.
Definition: Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.
– Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.
Spot, n. Etym: [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw. spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See Spit to eject from the mouth, and cf. Spatter.]
1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored. Out, damned spot! Out, I say! Shak.
2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. Pope.
3. A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. "Fixed to one spot." Otway. That spot to which I point is Paradise. Milton. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
6. (Zoöl.) (a) A sciænoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife. (b) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
7. pl.
Definition: Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] Crescent spot (Zoöl.), any butterfly of the family Melitæidæ having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings.
– Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field ilumination; -- called also spotted lens.
– Spot rump (Zoöl.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa hæmastica).
– Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun.
– On, or Upon, the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place. It was determined upon the spot. Swift.
Syn.
– Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality.
Spot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spotting.]
1. To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant]
3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse. My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. Sir P. Sidney. If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. Beau. & Fl. To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.
Spot, v. i.
Definition: To become stained with spots.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 December 2024
(noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; “he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades”
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