speck
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, floating, great, lonely, mere, tiny
VERB + SPECK
believe, isn't, wasn't
SPECK + NOUN
dust, sand, soot
PREP.
from, in, on
ADV.
apart
Definitions
noun
A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
a tiny speck of soot
[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 very small amount; a particle; a whit.
He has not a speck of money.
not a speck of truth in her story.
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
verb
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, […]
noun
Fat; lard; fat meat.
A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
The fat of the hippopotamus.
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6a tiny speck of soot
Wiktionary[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
Wiktionarya. 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
Wiktionarypaper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
WiktionaryEach flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained, […]
WiktionaryJoin'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous.
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