Speck Synonyms & Definitions

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• SpeckDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) 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.
2. (n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
3. (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
4. (n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
5. (n.) 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.

• SpeckleDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
2. (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.