Meaning of Speck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fat; lard; fat meat.
   uncountable
2. A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
3. A surname from German.
4. A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
   uncountable
5. A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
6. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
7. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
   uncountable
8. The fat of the hippopotamus.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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. 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 which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.”

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have⟳ some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point⟳ of pale light⟳. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help⟳ will come⟳ from elsewhere to save⟳ us from ourselves.”

“He has not a speck of money.”

“not a speck of truth in her story.”

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