What's the difference between pimple and spot?

Pimple


Definition:

  • (n.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
  • (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "All the big German newspapers and news magazines are now increasingly trying to have one editorial team overlook all of its channels of output – it's better for the overall brand," said Roland Pimpl, a correspondent for the trade magazine Horizont.
  • (2) These pimples exhibit a unique and complex morphology.
  • (3) In the white form, budding cells appear similar to those of most other strains of C. albicans, but in the opaque form, budding cells are larger, are bean shaped, and possess pimples on the wall.
  • (4) Results showed that a significant (P less than .05) linear increase in pimple score, uterine ash, and serum calcium occurred as dietary levels of D3 increased.
  • (5) The possibility is suggested that the vacuole of opaque cells is the origin of membrane-bound vesicles which traverse the wall through specialized pimple structures and emerge from the pimple with an intact outer double membrane, a unique phenomenon in yeast cells.
  • (6) John Lopez, Vanity Fair Whether or not Sorkin "sexed" The Social Network up hardly even matters: in sexing it up, he merely cast an unpleasant spotlight on that nasty pimple resting on the tip of our nose, whose presence we try so hard to hide with makeup so that we can go out and face the working world with dignity.
  • (7) The opaque-cell-specific 14.5-kDa antigen either is in the pimple channel or is a component of the emerging vesicle.
  • (8) The antics of the past week are pimples pointing to a deeper infection within the Conservative organism – and, for that matter, the body politic.
  • (9) "The pitch was frozen solid but Lincoln had the new Adidas pimpled studs, and ours had long nylon studs," he recalled.
  • (10) The functions of the unique opaque-cell pimple and emerging vesicle are not known.
  • (11) The trouble with the government's proposals so far is that they are mere pimples on the surface."
  • (12) The typical features are, in the beginning, a pruritic insect-bite-like pimple, then a painless ulcer surrounded by serous-hemorrhagic, often rapidly confluent vesicles and non-pitting edema.
  • (13) Feed consumption, egg production, egg weight, egg specific gravity, and pimple score were determined at weekly or biweekly intervals for a 10-week period.
  • (14) Pimpled egg shells are one of the various types of egg shell problems in the industry today.
  • (15) A peculiar anatomoclinic form is described about the Balanoposthite chronique circonscrite bénigne à plasmocytes (Zoon): the pimpled, erosive, nodular and pseudoangiomatous form.
  • (16) It was concluded that egg shell pimpling is directly related to level of cholecalciferol (D3) in the diet.
  • (17) A 17-month-old baby boy was noted to have a pimple-like lesion at the corona of the glans penis.
  • (18) There's even one in which she appears to have a pimple .
  • (19) In the Vivida group, five patients developed transient, mild pimples during the first weeks of treatment, but no other adverse effects occurred.
  • (20) The hyphae formed by opaque cells were morphologically identical to hyphae formed by white cells (i.e., they were devoid of pimples or protrusions and exhibited the same shape and septal locations).

Spot


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
  • (n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
  • (n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
  • (n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
  • (n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
  • (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
  • (n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
  • (n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
  • (v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
  • (v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
  • (v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
  • (v. i.) To become stained with spots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
  • (2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (3) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
  • (4) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
  • (5) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
  • (6) You just have to be the first person to spot a coach.
  • (7) The overall effect achieved with LTS was less than that with LTP, but it is possible to reduce IOP by selecting more reasonable parameters, e.g., a laser setting of 200mW, a 50 microns spot size and a 0.5 to 1-sec duration.
  • (8) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
  • (9) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (10) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.
  • (11) These complications were believed to be caused by the use of a small spot size with high energy.
  • (12) In the brownish skin and in the black spots of the dorsal region all types of chromatophores are found.
  • (13) I can always spot something for my sisters Gretchen and Amy.
  • (14) Debeaking had no effect on the incidence of blood-spotting in the eggs.
  • (15) Six abnormal colonoscopic appearances were documented, namely mucosal edema, ulcers, friability, punctate spots, erythematous areas and luminal exudate.
  • (16) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
  • (17) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
  • (18) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
  • (19) When delta phi was enlarged, first saccades were either directed near the green or the red spot (bistable response mode).
  • (20) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.