Spots

Definition: Spots

Spots

Noun

1. Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spots" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Spots

Blemish

Noun: blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism; flaw, defect; (imperfection) ; injury; (deterioration); spots on the sun; eyesore.

Fastidiousness

Mince the matter; turn up one's nose at; (disdain); look a gift horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun.

Hopelessness

Airy hopes forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus.

Stability

Establishment, fixture; rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin.

Crosswords: Spots

And one more thing if you ever pull a stunt like that again, I'll personally rearrange your spots! Now get out of my way, I got garbage to munch (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Oh, you sure do pick the spots! (Maverick; writing credit: William Goldman)

The disco hot spots hold no charm for you (Heat of the Moment; performing artist: Asia)

And ironing out the rough spots (Sad Songs (Say So Much); performing artist: Elton John)

Girl when we connect the dots we hit the spots (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule)

I wipe the spots off all the mirror (You Were Meant For Me; performing artist: Jewel)

Give me spots on my apples ("Big Yellow Taxi"; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

Hysterical High Spots in American History (1941)

Spots Before Your Eyes (1940)

Felix the Cat Spots the Spooks (1926)

Spots (1925)

The Leopard's Spots (1925)

Java Jive (performing artist: The Ink Spots)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Nudist Resorts: Luxury Sun Spots Worldwide (reference)

• Wavescape: Portraits of the Planet's Best Surf Spots (reference)

• Foghorn Outdoors: California Fishing 6 Ed: The Complete Guide to More Than 1,000 Fishing Spots in the Golden State (reference)

• The Reconstruction Trilogy: The Leopard's Spots; The Clansman; The Traitor (reference)

• Cloud Cuckoo Land (and Other Odd Spots) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Capcoa Revisions Of Air Toxics Hot Spots Guidelines (reference)

• Adweeks Best Spots Of The Month - Video Cassette (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Top 40 Classic Cola Soft Drink Spots (reference)

• Golden Age of the Ink Spots (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Garmin MapSource Fishing Hot Spots CD-ROM - North America (reference)

• Cobra MicroTalk Snap Interchangeable Front - Cow Spots (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A blocked flea, i.e. dark spots in stomach, is unable to ingest its blood meal because of a mass of bacteria within the proventriculus, preventing passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC.

The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots, and can appear on both the palms of the hands as well as on the plantar surface (bottom) of the feet. Credit: CDC.

This patient had an extensive papulosquamous rash that developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC.

A patient with a papular rash on the left arm that developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC.

These papulosquamous lesions on the back and shoulder developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC.

The Aedes aegypti is a vector for Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), as well as Yellow Fever. This mosquito is 3 - 4mm in length, and is black with white spots on the body and head regions, and has white rings on its legs. Credit: CDC.

Volcanic hot spots and auroral emissions on Io. Credit: NASA.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Taylor's Sea Slug, Phyllaplysia taylori, is common on blades of eelgrass (Zostera sp.) in low intertidal areas from Nanaimo, British Columbia to San Diego, California. The body is dorsoventrally flattened and from 25 to 45 cm long. Its color mimics Zostera, with a bright green base with brown-black and white spots. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

The Asian multicolored lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, is easy to identify from its false "eyes"-- twin white football-shaped markings behind the head. In color, the insects range from black to mustard, with zero to many spots. A common U.S. form is mustard to red and has 16 or more black spots. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Deer, fawn, with small spots lying on the ground. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Hence, it is that in these by no means inviting spots which are always termed (r)gloomy , the dreamer selects his apparently aimless walks

Rose of Sharon touched her ears tenderly and looked at the tiny spots of blood on her fingers

Or I could refer you to Ireland, which is marked as one of the white or enlightened spots on the map.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Blind spots appear by the late teenage years to early adulthood. (references)

In some cases, patients have a rash of flat, rose-colored spots. (references)

Without enough platelets, you may get nosebleeds, red spots on your skin and bruises. (references)

Business

By 1992, the first outdoor neon billboard in the country was erected for DHL. In 1993, local Vietnamese TV accepted the first foreign advertising spots. (references)

The existence of the European Union and the subsequent relaxation of passport controls for EU travelers make travel to all of these European short-haul holiday spots a hassle free option for U.K. Travelers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

Broadcasting time on the state-run Radio Ethiopia is sold to private groups and to individuals who want to buy spots for programs and commercials. (references)

Moldova

During the year, the state radio dropped a popular Romanian-sponsored radio program, "the Hearth," allegedly under government pressure, in addition to dropping two other minor radio spots from Romania. (references)

Economic History

Cape Verde

Radio and television spots are the most widely forms of advertising. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

There also have been antiracist publicity spots shown in football stadiums, as well as radio advertisements dealing with antiracist subjects. (references)

Women

Liechtenstein

In addition to billboard advertisements and radio spots, the Government published two brochures on the law, one targeted at companies and another aimed at female employees--the latter was sent to all households. (references)

Worker Rights

Moldova

This campaign included the use of large billboards, informational spots on television and radio, and pamphlets. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "spots": Brushfield spots ♦ Brushfield's spots ♦ Cafe-au-Lait Spots ♦ can the leopard change it's spots ♦ chilled spots or edges ♦ come out in spots ♦ global trouble spots ♦ in spots ♦ Koplik's spots ♦ leopard can't change it's spots ♦ leopard's spots ♦ Liver spots ♦ scab spots ♦ see spots on the sun ♦ slick spots ♦ solar spots ♦ spots of ink ♦ spots on the sun ♦ sun spots. Additional references.

Ending with "spots": eye-spots, hot-spots, trouble-spots.

Bulgarian 

леопард (catamount, leopard, pard). (various references)

Chinese 

斑点 (speck, spot). (various references)

Czech

dostat vyrážku (come out in a rush, come out in spots). (various references)

Danish

mængder indkøbt på spotmarkedet (spot goods, spot quantities), fugtpletter (damp, foxing). (various references)

Dutch

vuur in het papier (damp, foxing), vochtvlekjes op het papier (damp, foxing), vlekjes, locogoederen (spot goods, spot quantities), beschikbare goederen (spot goods, spot quantities). (various references)

Finnish

finnit. (various references)

French

poivrage, piqûres d'humidité, marchandises en disponible (spot goods, spot quantities). (various references)

German

Flecken (blot, patch, soil, spot, spottiness, stain, stains). (various references)

Greek 

λεκέδες,κηλίδες από την υγρασία (damp, foxing). (various references)

Hungarian

leopárd (leopard, panther, pard). (various references)

Indonesian

rintik-rintik (dots, small spots), membelangi (create spots on). (various references)

Italian

merce disponibile (spot goods, spot quantities), macchie d'umidita (damp, foxing), macchie (marking). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

斑 (erraticness, inconsistancy, irregularity, mottles, speckles, unevenness), ぽたぽた落ちる (bit by bit, chubby, cloop, crunching sound, dabble in water, fat, having just ..., in large drops, merely, piece by piece, pimples, plop, plump, pop, splash water, to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down, trickle down in thick drops, with a pop), ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, blankly, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, crunch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, doll, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, munch, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, slightly, splash, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まだら (mottles, speckles), ぽつぽつ (bit by bit, piece by piece, pimples), ぼつぼつ (gradually, here and there, pimples), ぶち (mottles, speckles). (various references)

Korean 

반점 (spot). (various references)

Manx

spuit. (various references)

Pig Latin

otsspay.(various references)

Portuguese

picos de humidade (damp, foxing). (various references)

Romanian

picãţele. (various references)

Russian 

замечать точка;прожектор. (various references)

Spanish

mancha de humedad (damp, foxing). (various references)

Swedish

platser (locations, places, sites). (various references)

Turkish

sahne ışıkları (bank of lights, footlights, spotlights), peşin para ile alınan şeyler (spot goods), hemen teslim edilen mallar (spot goods). (various references)

Welsh

brychni (freckles), brycheuyn (freckles). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "spots": despots, eyespots, fusspots, highspots, hotspots, nightspots, respots, sunspots, tosspots. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spots" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspot, bspos, ppots, sopot, sopt, spatz, spets, spiths, spocs, spods, spons, spoot, Sposa, sposh, Sposi, spote, spott, spowt, sprots. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: posts, stops.

-1 letter: opts, post, pots, psst, sops, sots, spot, stop, tops, toss.

-2 letters: ops, opt, pot, sop, sos, sot, top.

-3 letters: op, os, so, to.

+1 letter: estops, pestos, posits, posset, ptoses, ptosis, sports, spouts, stomps, stoops, stopes, stoups, stowps, strops, tossup, uptoss.

+2 letters: despots, fusspot, imposts, misstop, outpass, pastors, petasos, pistols, pistons, poetess, poshest, possets, postals, posters, postins, potsies, prestos, respots, riposts, sapotas, sapotes, sexpots, sophist, sopites, spigots, spintos, sprouts, stepson, stopers, stupors, sunspot, topless, tosspot, tossups, unstops, upshots.