Dictionary Definition
spot
Noun
1 a point located with respect to surface
features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic" [syn:
topographic
point, place]
2 a short section or illustration (as between
radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for
advertising
3 a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his
cheek" [syn: smudge,
blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
4 a small contrasting part of something; "a bald
spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin
ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation]
5 a section of an entertainment that is assigned
to a specific performer or performance; "they changed his spot on
the program"
6 an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was
one of the high points of the movie" [syn: point]
7 a business establishment for entertainment;
"night spot"
8 a job in an organization; "he occupied a post
in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, billet, place, situation]
9 a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of
rheumatism" [syn: touch]
10 a small quantity; "a spot of tea"; "a bit of
paper" [syn: bit]
11 a mark on a playing card (shape depending on
the suit) [syn: pip]
12 a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to
illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage
performer [syn: spotlight]
13 a playing card with a specified number of pips
on it to indicate its value; "an eight spot"
14 an act that brings discredit to the person who
does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear, smirch, stain]
Verb
2 mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was
blemished" [syn: blemish]
4 become spotted; "This dress spots
quickly"
5 mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy
recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
[also: spotting,
spotted]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Perhaps from spotte or spot.Pronunciation
- /spɒt/
- Rhymes with: -ɒt
Noun
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.
- A pimple or pustule.
- That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a
different color, texture etc. and generally round
in shape.
- The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- Would you like to come round on Sunday for a spot of lunch?
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars
(US).
- Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots.
- A particular location or area.
- I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?
Derived terms
Translations
stain
pimple, pustule
a round or irregular patch of a different color
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 斑點, 斑点 (bāndiǎn)
- Dutch: vlek, i Flemish plek
- Finnish: pilkku
- French: tache
- German: Fleck
- Greek: βούλα (voúla)
- Hungarian: folt
- Italian: macchia
- Japanese: 斑 (buchi), 斑点 (hanten), 染み (shimi)
- Korean: 점 (jeom)
- Norwegian: flekk, prikk
- Portuguese: mancha
- Russian: пятно
- Spanish: mancha
- Swedish: fläck, prick
small amount
location or area
- Dutch: plaats, plek
- German: Stelle, Ort
- Japanese: 場所 (basho)
- Norwegian: sted
- Portuguese: lugar
- Russian: место
- Swedish: plats
bright lamp; spotlight
a brief advertisement
- Dutch: spot, reclamespot
- German: Werbespot
- ttbc Spanish: paraje
Verb
- To see, find; to pick out,
notice, locate or identify.
- Try to spot the differences between these two entries.
- To loan a small amount
of money to someone.
- I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch.
- To stain; to leave a
spot.
- Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface.
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.
- In the context of "gymnastics|dance|weightlifting": To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to
assist if safety dictates.
- I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me.
- To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction
while turning.
- Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.
Translations
pick out, notice or identify
- Dutch: opmerken, vinden, bemerken
- Finnish: huomata
- Norwegian: oppdage, identifisere
- Portuguese: identificar
- Russian: заметить (zamétit’), увидеть (uvídet’)
- Swedish: märka ut
loan money to somebody
- Dutch: lenen, i Netherlands matsen
- Norwegian: låne
- Portuguese: emprestar (dinheiro a alguém)
- Russian: взять в долг (vzjat’ v dolg)
stain; leave a spot
- Dutch: bevlekken, vlek maken
- Portuguese: manchar
- Russian: оставить пятно (ostávit’ pjatnó)
- Swedish: fläcka ner
remove, or attempt to remove, a stain
- Dutch: ontvlekken
- Portuguese: remover uma mancha
sports: support or assist a maneuver
- Dutch: spotten
dance: keep the head and eyes pointing in a
single direction while turning
Dutch
Pronunciation
- /spɔt/
Synonyms
Verb
spotEtymology
Borrowed from spot.French
Etymology
Borrowed from spot.Pronunciation
- /spɔt/
Noun
fr-noun m- light spot
- blip i on radar
- In the context of "cinematography|theatre|lang=fr": spotlight, spot
Extensive Definition
The common noun or verb spot has many meanings in
English.
Otherwise, Spot or SPOT may refer to:
Advertising
Fiction
- Spot the Dog, a series of children's books adapted for animation
- Spot (chicken), a character in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
- Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain
- Spot (Star Trek), a pet cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- A character in the cartoon series Hong Kong Fooey
- A pet dragon in the TV series The Munsters
- A pet dog in the Dick and Jane textbook series
Music
- Spot (album), by the synthpop band And One
- Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark
- SPOT (producer), the house producer and engineer for the label SST Records
- Spot (rapper/producer)
- Singing Priests of Tagbilaran, a Filipino musical group
- Jerry Chamberlain, the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
Other meanings
- Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves
- SPOT (satellites)
- The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia
- Spot date, a financial term
- Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush
- Skatepark of Tampa
- Smart Personal Objects Technology, a Microsoft initiative
- Leiostomus xanthurus, a fish
- Pimple, a skin blemish
- Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless)
- Scott Draves, (known as 'Spot'), digital artist and VJ
- A nickname for a spotlight
- Old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars
- "screening passengers by observation techniques" (SPOT), one airport security technique
- Spots are a method of smoking cannabis. Also the term 'spot' may refer to a dealer lending cannabis to receive payment at a later time.
- Single Point of Truth, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering.
spot in German: Spot
spot in Spanish: Spot
spot in French: Spot
spot in Italian: Spot
spot in Dutch: Spot
spot in Japanese: SPOT
spot in Polish: Spot
spot in Vietnamese: Vết đen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal,
IM display, RF echoes, abode, ace, acne, aimless, allocate, appointment, arc, arc light, area, ascertain, aspersion, assign, atom, attaint, badge of infamy,
band, bar, bar sinister, baton, beam, bearings, beat signal, bedabble, bedaub, behold, bench mark, bend
sinister, berth, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, bespangle, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, besprinkle, billet, bind, birthmark, bit, bite, black, black eye, black mark,
blacken, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blips, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, boils, bounces, box, brand, bread, broad arrow, case, caste mark, catch, catch sight of, censure, chalk up, champain, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, circumstance, clap eyes on,
clutch, collocate, color filter,
commercial,
commercial announcement, complication, condition, connection, corner, crumb, crunch, cut, dab, dabble, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, dash, daub, define, delimit, demarcate, deploy, descry, designless, detect, determinate, diagnose, dilemma, dimmer, dirty, discern, discolor, discoloration, discover, disparagement, display, dispose, distinguish, district, dole, dollop, dot, dottedness, double-dot
display, draft, dram, dredge, drench, dribble, driblet, drink, drop, dust, dwarf, earmark, echo, echo signal, embarrassing
position, embarrassment, emplace, emplacement, encounter, engrave, engraving, eruptions, espy, estate, eyesore, farthing, fine how-do-you-do,
finger, fix, flake, fleck, flick, floats, flood, floodlight, flour, flyspeck, footing, footlights, foots, fragment, freckle, freckliness, gargle, gash, gelatin, get a fix, glimpse, gobbet, grain, granule, graving, groat, guzzle, hack, hair, handful, haphazard, harlequin, hatch, have, have in sight, hell to pay,
hit, hit-or-miss, hobble, hole, home in on, home on, hot
water, how-do-you-do, identify, imbroglio, impress, imprint, imputation, install, intersperse, iota, iris, irregular, jam, jigger, jolt, jot, ken, klieg light, know, know again, latitude and
longitude, lay eyes on, lentigo, libation, lieu, light plot, lights, limelight, line, little, little bit, lob, local oscillator signal,
locale, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, look on, look upon,
lot, lota, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, make out,
map, marble, marbleize, mark, mark of Cain, mark off, mark
out, marking, marquee, medium, meet with, mess, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mix, modality, mode, modicum, mole, molecule, morass, morsel, mote, motley, mottle, mottledness, nail, navigate, nevus, nick, nip, notch, notice, nutshell, observe, odium, office, onus, ounce, output signal, parlous
straits, particle,
pass, patch, pebble, peg, pencil, pepper, perceive, pick out, pick up,
pickle, picture, pillorying, pimple, pin down, pinch, pinpoint, pips, pittance, place, placement, plight, plug, point, point champain, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot,
polychrome, polychromize, position, post, posture, potation, potion, powder, predicament, pretty pass,
pretty pickle, pretty predicament, prick, print, pull, punch, punctuate, puncture, put in place,
quagmire, quandary, quarter, quicksand, radar signal,
rainbow, rank, reading, realize, recall knowledge of,
receive, recognize, reflection, region, reidentify, reprimand, reproach, return, return signal, riddle, round, round of drinks, scan, scar, scarification, scarify, scene, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratching, scruple, seal, seam, section, sector, see, sense, setting, shot, sight, signal, signal display, single
out, sip, site, situate, situation, situs, slapdash, slough, slubber, slug, slur, smear, smidgen, smidgin, smirch, smitch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, snifter, snort, soil, soilage, soilure, spangle, spatter, speck, speckle, speckliness, splash, splatter, splotch, spoonful, spot announcement,
spotlight, spots, spottedness, spottiness, spray, sprinkle, spy, squeeze, stain, stamp, standing, state, station, status, stead, stew, sticky wicket, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, strait, straits, strawberry mark,
streak, striate, stripe, stud, suck, sully, sup, swamp, sweep, swig, swill, taint, take in, target image,
tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, tell, tessellate, thimbleful, tick, tick off, tight spot, tight
squeeze, tightrope,
tiny bit, tittle,
tot, trace, transmitter signal,
triangulate, tricky
spot, trifling amount, trigger, trivia, tune in, turn up,
twig, unconsidered, underline, underscore, unholy mess,
unplanned, variegate, vein, video signal, view, watermark, wet, where, whereabout, whereabouts, whit, witness, zero in
on