'Speck' definitions:
Definition of 'speck'
(from WordNet)
noun
A very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky" [syn: speck, pinpoint]
noun
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck]
noun
A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon]
verb
Produce specks in or on; "speck the cloth"
Definition of 'Speck'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Speck'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. [1913 Webster]
- Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Speck'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'speck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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