| 单词 | speckle |
| 释义 | speckle (once / 3052 pages) nv A speckle is a dot or dash of something — you might think you've painted the living room without spilling any paint, only to find a speckle of purple in the middle of the rug. Young children pouring their own cereal often leave a speckle of milk on the counter no matter how careful they are. You can also use speckle as a verb meaning "to scatter" or "to dot." For example, you could describe the black spots that speckle your cat, or talk about the stars that speckle the sky. Speckle most likely comes from the Old English word specca, "small spot or speck." WORD FAMILYspeckle: speckled, speckles, speckling USAGE EXAMPLESThose include a trapdoor spider, a speckled freshwater darter, a parasitic worm and an extinct lizard. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) Back on the ground, Erickson’s face is speckled with sawdust. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) Clothing and arms speckled with white paint, he studied his muse a few feet away. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1n a small contrasting part of something Syn|Hypo|Hyper dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot pinpoint, speck a very small spot nebula(pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea splasha patch of bright color fret, worn spota spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion plaque(pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body macula, maculea patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases mock sun, parhelion, sundoga bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals macula, sunspota cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field faculaa large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots faculaa bright spot on a planet amyloid plaque, amyloid protein plaquea plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease) arterial plaquea fatty deposit inside an arterial wall; characteristic of atherosclerosis bacterial plaque, dental plaquea film of mucus and bacteria deposited on the teeth that encourages the development of dental caries freckle, lentigoa small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin liver spota type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin plague spota spot on the skin characteristic of the plague marking a pattern of marks 2v mark with small spots speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots Syn|Hyper bespeckle blob, blot, fleck, spot make a spot or mark onto 3v produce a mottled effect Syn|Hyper stipple cloud, dapple, mottle colour with streaks or blotches of different shades |
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