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Substantiivi

1. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
2. A stain or disfiguring mark.
3. A pimple, papule or pustule.
4. A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
5. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
6. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
7. A location or area.
8. A parking space.
9. (sports) An official determination of placement.
10. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
11. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
12. A difficult situation.
13. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
14. (soccer) Penalty spot.
15. The act of spotting or noticing something.
16. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
17. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
18. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
19. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
20. (physics) An autosoliton.
21. (finance) A decimal point; point.
22. Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
23. Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.

Adjektiivi

1. (commerce, finance) Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.
2. (informal) Exact; precise.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
2. (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
3. (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
4. (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
5. To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
6. (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
7. (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
8. (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
9. (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
10. (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
11. (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
12. (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
13. (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
14. (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
15. (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
16. (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.