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spot (SPAHT) (noun)
1. A small area of a surface that is different from other sections: "The man fell through a thin spot in the ice on the lake."
2. A small amount of a substance that is on something: "A candle in the holder dropped a spot of wax on the table cloth."
3. A particular space or area: "They had trouble finding a parking spot."
2. A small amount of a substance that is on something: "A candle in the holder dropped a spot of wax on the table cloth."
3. A particular space or area: "They had trouble finding a parking spot."
"We spent our vacation in a nice quiet spot on the coast."
spot (SPAHT) (verb)
To see or to notice someone or something that is difficult to see or to find: "Did you spot the lack of quality in this meal as compared to the one we had at the other restaurant?"
"She can spot errors in the written presentation much better than other editors."
spot (SPAHT) (adjective)
1. Relating to goods or shares that are paid for and delivered immediately instead of at some future time: "There is quite a difference between futures and spot commodities."
2. The act or process of looking at a few things or people in a group in order to find possible problems: "The police announced that they would be making spot checks of drivers on New Year's Eve in order to reduce driving after drinking alcoholic beverages."
2. The act or process of looking at a few things or people in a group in order to find possible problems: "The police announced that they would be making spot checks of drivers on New Year's Eve in order to reduce driving after drinking alcoholic beverages."
She did a spot check of her clothes and she was able to spot a spot of grease on her new green coat.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group S; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“spot”
(Latin: spot, mark, stain, blot, blemish, mesh; the original meaning of macula seems to have been, "a soiled spot, a spot to be cleaned")
(Latin: sore, sore spot, painful spot)
Word Entries containing the term:
“spot”
ion burn, ion spot
A cathode-ray tube screen, an area of localized deterioration of luminescence caused by bombardment with negative ions.
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ion, ion- +
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null spot
Area in the reader field that doesn't receive radio waves.
This is essentially the reader's blind spot. It is a phenomenon common to UHF systems.
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nul-, null-, nulli- +
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): Definitions
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