speck
/spɛk/ sustantivo C1En español: mota
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt. · a tiny speck of soot
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit. · He has not a speck of money.· not a speck of truth in her story.
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
Plural specks
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The world of finance dwindled suddenly to a speck.
The last words were shrieked as he was being swung through the air, but Rann nodded and rose up till he looked no bigger than a speck of dust, and there he hung, watching with his telescope eyes the swaying of the treetops as Mowgli’s escort whirled along.
You needn’t worry a speck more about it, Matthew.
We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.
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