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Definition spot
Etymology
From Middle English spot or spotte, cognate with Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), Low German spot, and Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). Also Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”).
Noun
spot (plural spots)
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A location or area.
- A parking space.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Difficult situation; predicament.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
- An autosoliton.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
Verb
spot (third-person singular simple present spots, present participle spotting, simple past and past participle spotted)
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
Adjective
spot (not comparable)
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