(n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
(n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
(n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
(n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
(v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(2) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
(3) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(4) Andreas Speck London • David Miranda's detention was an extreme case of a large-scale harassment, especially of Muslims and political activists monitored by MI5.
(5) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(6) The smallest speck, fibre and mass sizes visible in the radiographs were 0.24, 0.75 and 0.5 mm, respectively.
(7) A qualitative description of electrostatic interactions between the two cytochromes based on limited electrostatic interaction domains on the cytochrome c oxidase surface was found to be in good agreement with all our data and supports the model of Speck et al.
(8) The best machines could resolve 0.2 mm aluminium oxide specks with the contact technique.
(9) Ulrich Speck is senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC
(10) Speck visibility was as dependent on the composition of the specks and of the surrounding material as on the size of the specks.
(11) The Cocos Islands is a tiny green speck in the Indian ocean nearer to Penang than Perth, settled in 1826 as a resupply base for Indian ocean traders.
(12) Fairly easy Salads Tabbouleh Most of us visualise tabbouleh as bulgur with specks of herbs, but in the Lebanon it is very green with specks of bulgur.
(13) This was the scene in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in which Lawrence ( Peter O’Toole ) first makes contact with the Arab chieftain Sherif Ali (Sharif), who will become his key ally in the desert fighting, and the latter, in a daringly protracted sequence, develops from a speck on the horizon into a towering, huge horseman, rifle at the ready.
(14) (Speck, S.H., Dye, D. and Margoliash, E. (1984) Proc.
(15) The area is a busy shipping route connecting to the Strait of Malacca and the Pacific and is believed to have rich oil and gas deposits, meaning that the tiny specks of land that dot it have been contested by many neighbouring powers for decades.
(16) Photograph: Penny Bradfield Julia Gillard leaves the press conference Photograph: Penny Bradfield Updated at 10.01am GMT 9.09am GMT Lenore Taylor on a "speck of silver lining for Labor" Guardian Australia’s incoming political editor Lenore Taylor writes for Fairfax media that Labor’s political dysfunction has reached levels unprecedented “even for a party that has spent much of the last three years tearing itself asunder”.
(17) We obtained 2-8 fold variations for the smallest sizes of the three objects (specks, fibres and masses) visible in the X-ray images and 3.0-3.7 fold variations for an "image score".
(18) Climbing over rough ground, the route follows the rim of a dramatic escarpment above the sea, with wonderful views down to the water, often specked with passing porpoises and dolphins.
(19) This consists of multiple echogenic specks in an otherwise normal testicular parenchyma.
(20) Interphase nuclei are characterized by the distribution of chromatin; aside from the cortical chromatin spread along nuclear envelope and nucleolus, there are chromatin accumulations that belong mainly in two different classes: 1) numerous chromatin "specks" ranging in size from about 5 to 70 nm and averaging 47 nm; 2) a few roughly circular or elongated chromatin "packets" measuring from 70 to 230 nm.
Speckle
Definition:
(n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
(v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(2) Ensemble averaging of a large number of unfiltered spectra was used as the "gold standard" in the evaluation, i.e., as the output of an ideal filter which reveals the exact nature of the underlying Doppler spectrum after speckle has been eliminated.
(3) Rather than the predominant homogeneous pattern seen elsewhere in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, the speckled pattern was commonest among Thai patients with these two diseases (67.9% and 76.9% respectively).
(4) The localization of these key components of the pre-mRNA splicing machinery to speckled nuclear regions suggests that these regions may be involved in pre-mRNA splicing.
(5) The commonest FANA pattern is the speckled pattern.
(6) It is shown that there exists a trade-off between speckle reduction and reproduced density range.
(7) The secretory granules of the pro-acinar cells contained speckled or rod-like substructures which stained intensively for carbohydrates and were digested by proteolytic enzymes.
(8) Clinical and laboratory findings were correlated from 46 patients with IgG localization in epidermal nuclei in a speckled (particulate) pattern on direct immunofluorescence of normal skin.
(9) A 2 year-old girl presented with bacterial meningitis followed by a lupus erythematosus syndrome consisting of erythematous rash, Raynaud's phenomenon and mutilating cicatricia atrophy; high speckled antinuclear antibodies and anti-Sm and anti-Ro antibodies titers; a selective absence of C4; moderate mesangial proliferation with IgM and C1q mesangial deposits.
(10) Indirect immunofluorescence examination of cultured human embryo cells, using the serum of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, showed a speckled nuclear pattern.
(11) A new online signal processing technique is described to reduce speckle noise in ultrasound images.
(12) Serological examination revealed antinuclear antibodies with a titer of 1:5120 (speckled pattern) and anti-RNP antibody with a titer of 1:32.
(13) Time-average speckle interferometry has been applied to obtain displacement patterns on the chest wall produced by cardiac action, in the absence of breathing, during various phases of the cardiac cycle.
(14) We present applications to speckle reduction, detection of specular reflectors, attenuation estimation and ultrasound imaging.
(15) Live animal speckle scores classified carcasses as Select or Choice with 77% accuracy.
(16) A unique sparsely speckled antinuclear antibody pattern was seen.
(17) The sand was brown-red and the speckles of salt sparkled in the sun.
(18) They re-enter the newly formed nuclei of the two daughter cells at early telophase, producing speckled nuclear fluorescent patterns typical of interphase cells.
(19) This agrees with earlier manual-visual measurements but the higher precision due to computer evaluation of the speckle patterns gives much more reliable estimate of the repositioning error.
(20) The monoclonal antibody reacted with the 350-kDa protein in immunoblot analysis and immunostained intranuclear speckles; both immunoreactions were abolished by treatment with alkaline or acid phosphatase.