Fleck

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  • noun. A tiny mark or spot.
  • noun. A small bit or flake.
  • transitive verb. To spot or streak.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To spot; streak or stripe; dapple. Also flecker.
  • noun. A flake; a lock.
  • noun. A dialectal form of flitch.
  • noun. A spot; a streak; a splash; a stain.
  • noun. Specifically In entomology, an irregular and generally elongate dot of color: applied especially to such dots on the wings of butterflies and moths.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
  • noun. A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
  • noun. A spot; a streak; a speckle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A flake
  • noun. A lock, as of wool.
  • noun. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • verb. To mark with small spots
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
  • noun. a small contrasting part of something
  • verb. make a spot or mark onto
  • Word Usage
    "This is like me calling a fleck of lint a 1/100,000 scale model of a cloud, even though it's not made of water."
    Form
    flecked  flecking  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cech  Czech  Dec  Eck  Lech  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dapple  dot  flake  freckle  speckle  
    verb-form