spot
/spɑt/ noun A1- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape. · The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.· Why do ladybugs have spots?
- A stain or disfiguring mark. · I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.
- A pimple, papule or pustule. · That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin.· I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity. · Do come 'round on Sunday for a spot of tea, won't you?
- A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars. · Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots.
- A location or area. · I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside.· For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met.
- A parking space.
Plural spots
From the library
Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera’s silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.
His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo’s pride.
Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
William Bell, and right in the corner there is a little ring of white birch trees--the most romantic spot, Marilla.
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