Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tiny mark or spot.
- noun A small bit or flake.
- transitive verb To spot or streak.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- To spot; streak or stripe; dapple. Also
flecker . - noun A flake; a lock.
- noun A dialectal form of
flitch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
- noun A spot; a streak; a speckle.
- transitive verb To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
flake - noun A
lock , as ofwool . - noun A small
spot orstreak ; aspeckle . - verb transitive To
mark with smallspots
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Thoinot considers that in these cases the fleck is a fetich.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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We bought more of the blue fleck at lunch and they started biting again.
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The bass would only hit the blue fleck 7 Berkley Power Worm.
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In Blenheim Farm's hydroponic greenhouse, a lone lingonberry was visible, now little more than a fleck of red buried in a swell of leaves.
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A tiny fleck of blood lifted from my cheek with a tingle not unlike a butterfly on my skin.
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Yes | No | Report from swoolley wrote 38 weeks 6 days ago wave worm - watermelon w/black fleck
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When I needed an emergency trip to the eye doctor because a fleck of metal had gotten caught in my eye, my dad inquired about where to go and took us there.
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He turned his head and spat an almost invisible fleck of spit on the floor.
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