spotting

noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

gigantic, good, good, heavy, important, keen, largest, light

VERB + SPOTTING

blood-curdling, eye, found, said, scream, surprise, thanks

SPOTTING + NOUN

centipede, errors, health, irregularities, isabella, opportunities, others, spider

PREP.

after, in, on, upon

ADV.

always, really

Definitions

noun

A spotted pattern.

Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.

The act of spotting or sighting something.

Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts […]

Vaginal spotting, the discharge of blood from the vagina at a time outside of one's usual menses.

Subchorionic bleeding […] can cause light to heavy spotting but doesn't always (sometimes it is only detected during a routine ultrasound).

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Synonyms

noun — the act of detecting something

noun — the act of spotting or staining something

staining
maculation

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.

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Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts […]

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Subchorionic bleeding […] can cause light to heavy spotting but doesn't always (sometimes it is only detected during a routine ultrasound).

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It must also be said that spotting what is important in current science is a matter of judgement, one cannot know that one is right.

Tatoeba · #239631

Thanks for spotting the typo.

Tatoeba · #4704970

Galileo was one of the first to use the telescope to search the heavens. Among his findings was spotting the four largest moons orbiting around Jupiter.

Tatoeba · #6285283

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