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/spˈɑtəd/ /spˈɑtɪd/ Listen

verb

Spot v. t. (past & past part. spotted; pres. part. spotting)

To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper.

To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal. (Cant)

To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse. "My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain." "If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury."

To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.

Spot v. i. To become stained with spots.

adjective

Spotted adj. Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther."

Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.

Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); so called because its bark falls off in spots.

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Etymology of 'Spotted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spotted" Quotes from Famous Books

... pools of water multiplied. The ground gradually became softer, and the feet sank in it. Hamilcar did not turn back. He went on still at their head; and his horse, which was yellow-spotted like a dragon, advanced into the mire flinging froth around him, and with great straining of the loins. Night—a moonless light—fell. A few cried out that they were about to perish; he snatched their arms ...

— Salammbo • Gustave Flaubert

... an airline flight attendant spotted a passenger lighting a match. The crew and passengers quickly subdued the man, who had been trained by al Qaeda and was armed with explosives. The people on that plane were alert and, as a result, likely saved nearly 200 lives. And tonight we welcome and thank flight attendants ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... floury-white up to the elbows. She was leaning over the dough-trough, plunging her fists furiously into the spongy mass, when she heard a step on the porch. Although her gown was pinned up, leaving half of her short, striped petticoat visible, and a blue and white spotted handkerchief concealed her dark hair, Sally did not stop to think of that. She rushed into the front room, just as a gaunt female figure passed the window, at the sight of which she clapped her hands so that the flour flew in a little white cloud, ...

— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor

... great difficulty prevented from syncope, and all the maids bustling and passing round Mrs Easy's chair. Everybody appeared excited except Master Jack Easy himself, who, with a rag round his finger, and his pinafore spotted with blood, was playing at bob-cherry, and cared nothing ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat

... woodpecker cries in the copse, and immediately afterwards flies across the mead, and away to another plantation. Occasionally the spotted woodpecker may be seen here, a little bird which, in the height of summer, is lost among the foliage, but in spring and winter can be observed tapping at the ...

— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies

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