speckle
speckled; speckles; speckling
A speckle is a dot or dash of something — you might think you've painted the living room without spilling any paint, only to find a speckle of purple in the middle of the rug.
Young children pouring their own cereal often leave a speckle of milk on the counter no matter how careful they are. You can also use speckle as a verb meaning "to scatter" or "to dot." For example, you could describe the black spots that speckle your cat, or talk about the stars that speckle the sky. Speckle most likely comes from the Old English word specca, "small spot or speck."
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a small contrasting part of something
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synonyms:
dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot
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types:
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pinpoint, speck
a very small spot
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nebula
(pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea
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splash
a patch of bright color
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fret, worn spot
a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
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plaque
(pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body
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macula, macule
a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases
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mock sun, parhelion, sundog
a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals
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macula, sunspot
a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field
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facula
a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots
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facula
a bright spot on a planet
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amyloid plaque, amyloid protein plaque
a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease)
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arterial plaque
a fatty deposit inside an arterial wall; characteristic of atherosclerosis
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bacterial plaque, dental plaque
a film of mucus and bacteria deposited on the teeth that encourages the development of dental caries
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freckle, lentigo
a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin
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liver spot
a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin
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plague spot
a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague
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type of:
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marking
a pattern of marks
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mark with small spots
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produce a mottled effect
Vocabulary lists containing speckle
When twelve-year-old Sophie Brown moves from a California city to a farm her dad has inherited, she is determined to learn how to raise the chickens she finds.
While playing a game of hide and seek at their friend Zee's welcome home party, Justin and his friends get pulled into a shadowy world. They have to confront their worst nightmares as they try to escape the Seeker monster and find their way home.
Fourth graders Shayla, Liam, Ben, and Ai struggle to adjust to quarantine life in their New York City apartment building during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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