speck
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
a tiny speck of soot
a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88, Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
- 2.
A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
He has not a speck of money.
not a speck of truth in her story.
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- 3.
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- 4.
(uncountable)Fat; lard; fat meat.
- 5.
(uncountable)A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- 6.
(uncountable)The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
- 7.
(uncountable)The fat of the hippopotamus.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To mark with specks; to speckle.
paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
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From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (small spot, stain), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (spark). Cognate with spaken.