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Definition: Spotter |
SpotterNoun1. A worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots. 2. A worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers). 3. A person employed to watch for something to happen. 4. Someone who is the first to observe something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spotter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | An anctionneer's assistant who watches the buyers for bids. . . . -- de vente aux enchères, celui qui repère ceux qui font des offres. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. In truck usage, the person who directs the driver into loading or dumping position b. In a pile driver, the horizontal connection between the machinery deck and the lead (pile guide). (references) |
Occupations | Parks automobiles for customers in parking lot or storage garage: Places numbered tag on windshield of automobile to be parked and hands customer similar tag to be used later in locating parked automobile. Records time and drives automobile to parking space, or points out parking space for customer's use. Patrols area to prevent thefts from parked automobiles. Collects parking fee from customer, based on charges for time automobile is parked. Takes numbered tag from customer, locates automobile, and surrenders it to customer, or directs customer to parked automobile. May service automobiles with gasoline, oil, and water. When parking automobiles in storage garage, may be designated Storage-Garage Attendant (automotive ser.). May direct customers to parking spaces. (references) |
| Shops in commercial, retail, and service establishments to test integrity of sales and service personnel, and evaluates sales techniques and services rendered customers: Reviews establishment's policies and standards to ascertain employee-performance requirements. Buys merchandise, orders food, or utilizes services to evaluate sales technique and courtesy of employee. Carries merchandise to check stand or sales counter and observes employee during sales transaction to detect irregularities in listing or calling prices, itemizing merchandise, or handling cash. Delivers purchases to agency conducting shopping investigation service. Writes report of investigations for each establishment visited. Usually works as member of shopping investigation crew. (references) | |
| Locates and marks apex of curvature of formed glassware to provide index point for cutting operations: Holds flat edge of glassware on illuminated bullseyed board. Locates shadow of mold indentation and positions marking pencil on glassware until pencil shadow falls in center of indentation shadow. Marks center of indentation on glassware to indicate apex of curvature. Inspects glassware for visible defects. (references) | |
| Locates and marks specified drilling position on surfaces of diamonds used as dies: Places diamond under microscope and moves it at various angles until clear channel through gem can be seen. Forms indentation in diamond surface to mark spot for drilling, using diamond chips held in pliers. Drills starting hole of minute dimensions, using electrically powered hand drill. (references) | |
| Examines squares (tiles) of felt-based linoleum material passing along on conveyor and replaces missing and substandard tiles. (references) | |
Sports & Leisure | An assistant to a sportcasting who provides the names of the players chiefly involved in each play of a game esp. a football game. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SpotterSynonyms: discoverer (n), finder (n), lookout (n), lookout man (n), picket (n), scout (n), sentinel (n), sentry (n), watch (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spotter |
| Specialty definitions using "spotter": cannot observe ♦ description of target ♦ mixed air, mixed graze ♦ observer-target distance ♦ rotary-slicing-machine operator, rotary-veneer-machine operator ♦ SPOTTER, PHOTOGRAPHIC ♦ TURRET-LATHE OPERATOR, TUMBLE TAILSTOCK ♦ VENEER-LATHE OPERATOR. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Spotter using large binoculars to look for signs of tuna. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A tuna seiner circling a school of tuna as seen from a spotter aircraft. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Launches a U.S. Marine Corps OY-2 "Sentinel" spotter plane during operations in the Yellow Sea, off the west coast of Korea, 22 September 1950. Sicily was then supporting the campaign to recapture Seoul. Credit: NAVY. |  | VCS-7 pilots are briefed before flying a gunfire spotting mission over the Normandy beach heads, circa June-July 1944. The squadron had temporarily switched from its SOC floatplanes to British "Spitfire" fighters for this operation. Those present are (from left to right): Wing Commander Robert J. Hardiman, RAF, Commanding Allied Spotter Pilots; Ensign Robert J. Adams, USNR; Major Noel East, British Army Intelligence; Lieutenant Harris Hammersmith, Jr., USNR; and Captain John Ruscoe, Royal Artillery, Gunnery Liaison Officer. Photo was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 17 February 1945. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Fort Story coast defense. An airplane spotter on duty at Fort Story, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Spotter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.18% of the time. "Spotter" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.18% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "spotter": spotter plane. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "spotter": train-spotter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spotter | 17 | nikon spotter xl | 4 |
carpet spotter | 8 | aviation spotter | 4 |
storm spotter | 7 | spotter trend | 4 |
ez spotter | 6 | uni spotter | 4 |
weather spotter | 6 | spotter trailer | 3 |
monitor spotter | 6 | spotter truck | 3 |
spotter train | 6 | beef spotter | 2 |
plane spotter | 6 | spotter card | 2 |
spotter scope | 6 | skywarn spotter | 2 |
spotter tractor | 6 | g spotter | 2 |
aircraft spotter | 5 | sign spotter | 2 |
game spotter | 4 | bid spotter | 2 |
yard spotter | 4 | american car guide spotter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "spotter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrojtues (watcher), vëzhgues (monitor, observant, watcher), këqyrës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسلاط (projector), نصاب (deceitful, sharper), جندي مراقب, المراقب (observer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor, warden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | следящ за приближаващи самолети, откриващ вражески позиции. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 监视人 (Watchdog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pozorovatel (observer, watcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هدف یاب , نقطه نقطه , کاشف جنایات , خال گذار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | surveillant du personnel, repéreur, observateur, guetteur, dénicheur, assistant au commissairepriseur, analyste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | detektiv (bloodhound, detective, investigator, operative, private eye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατοπτευτήσ (reconnoiterer), παρατηρητήσ (contemplator, objervator, observer, watcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | titkosrendõr (plain clothes man), detektív (busy, detective, flatfoot, gumshoe, gum-shoe, sleuth, tail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | detettivo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otterspay detetive particular. (various references) корректировщик. (various references) osmatrač (look out, lookout, observer, scout). (various references) supervisor de escombreras (tipman, watcher), observador (observant, observer, onlooker, regardant, scout, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted), coleccionista de números de locomotoras. (various references) observatör (observer), eldobservatör. (various references) mağaza güvenlik görevlisi, gözcü (look out, lookout, observer, picket, usher, watchman), dedektif (bloodhound, detective, Dick, ferret, investigator). (various references) сищик (bogy, operative, trap), навідник (pointer), плямовивідник. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spotter": spotters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spotter": pinspotter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spotter": pinspotters. (additional references) | |
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"Spotter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shotter, sotter, spette, Spiteri, spooter, spote, sptter, spudder, spurter, sputtern, stotter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spotter" (pronounced spÄ"ter) |
| 4 | -p Ä" t er | Potter. |
| 3 | -Ä" t er | blotter, Cotter, dotter, hotter, imprimatur, mater, otter, plotter, rotter, saltwater, squatter, totter, Trotter, yachter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: potters, protest. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: otters, poster, potter, presto, repots, respot, rottes, stoper, topers, tortes, toters, tropes. | |
-2 letters: estop, otter, pesto, petto, poets, pores, ports, poser, prest, prose, prost, repos, repot, ropes, roset, rotes, rotte, spore, sport, stope, stopt, store, strep, strop, toper, topes, tores, torse, torte, torts, toter, totes, trets, trope, trots. | |
-3 letters: epos, eros, erst, opes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: jetports, plotters, portents, proettes, prostate, protects, protests, spotters, spottier, treetops. | |
+2 letters: entrepots, operettas, pastorate, patentors, poetaster, portliest, posterity, potterers, potteries, promptest, prostates, prostrate, protested, protester, protestor, proustite, respotted, spectator, sportiest, sternpost, teleports, tetrapods. | |
+3 letters: corruptest, entoprocts, introspect, operettist, orthoepist, pastorates, pinspotter, pirouettes, poetasters, portentous, postarrest, postmaster, postmortem, poststrike, pothunters, potometers, prosthetic, prostitute, prostrated, prostrates, protectors, protestant, protesters, protesting, protestors, protonates, protostele, protostome, prototypes, proustites, respotting, retrospect, spectators, stepmother, stereotype, stereotypy, sternposts, stroppiest, tetraspore, tightropes, tropotaxes, vaporettos, waterspout. | |
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