speck

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//spɛk//

A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.

sostantivo

1
A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
a tiny speck of soot
Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse’s collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well-groomed body of his master.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
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.
3
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

Etimologia

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).

verbo

1
To mark with specks; to speckle.
paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained, […]
Join'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous.

sostantivo

1
Fat; lard; fat meat.
2
A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
3
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
4
The fat of the hippopotamus.

Etimologia

From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spik, from Proto-Germanic *spiką (“bacon”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.

Forme

plurale: specks
passato: specked
participio passato: specked
participio presente: specking
3ª persona singolare: specks

specific · Explicit or definite.specifically · In a specific manner, applying to or naming a particular…specimen · An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

speck · A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.

Speck · A surname from German.specs · Specifications: plural of spec spectacle · An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance…

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