(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.
Trickle
Definition:
(v. t.) To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
Example Sentences:
(1) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
(2) Technology has made workers more productive, but the profits have trickled up, not down.
(3) At its height, flows on the Loire, France’s longest river and home to many nuclear power plants, were reduced to a trickle.
(4) Parasite kinetics were followed in pigs receiving A. suum eggs as repeated trickle inoculations at two dose levels beginning at a body weight of 25 kg until their slaughter at 90 kg (baconers).
(5) However, increased antibody titers were not associated with increased resistance in trickle challenged mice.
(6) More than anything, I started to feel that I was calling my friends less, seeing my friends less and that our friendships were being reduced to a trickle of pictures, comments and quips.
(7) Three-year-old, non-lactating and non-pregnant Merino ewes, raised on pasture under a program of strategic treatment with anthelmintic and found to be extremely resistant to "trickle" infection with Haemonchus contortus, were given single-dose infections with either H. contortus or Trichostrongylus colubriformis or both species together.
(8) An investigation of aerosols emitted by trickling-filter sewage treatment plants revealed that coliforms were indeed emitted and have been sampled to a distance of 0.8 mile (1.2 kilometers) downwind.
(9) The president said: "They've been trying to sell this trickle-down snake oil before."
(10) "Trickle down government ... is not the answer for America," is obviously one of the famous Mitt Romney Zingers that we have promised.
(11) Probes from a trickling-filter outflow, from an oxidation pond and from a small river were tested simultaneously in a Flow-Microcalorimeter (LKB, 2107, Fig.
(12) From there, the Guardian's Paul Harris has filed this: As they trickled into the church – far outnumbered by the hordes of lunchtime office workers and eagerly shopping tourists outside – few expressed anything but acceptance at the once-in-the-last 600 years event.
(13) The tertiary-infection group had a higher average number of adult worms per hamster, but fewer subcutaneous nodules than the trickle infection group.
(14) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
(15) The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian terrain that can reach hundreds of metres downhill in the warmer months, before they dry up in the autumn as surface temperatures drop.
(16) Unless emergency measures are adopted, some of our finest waterways could be reduced to trickles over the next few decades.
(17) Ironically, Ken Livingstone's policy of letting developers build high-density and tall (in exchange for a minuscule trickle of "social" housing) may have helped turf him out of power, a possibility that Labour might do well to ponder.
(18) Food is served once a day to the fighters and supplies have dwindled to a trickle.
(19) Like the majority of his employees – most of whom have now begun trickling back to work – Romualdez was almost washed away by the super storm and only survived by clutching onto roof rafters as the waters rose around him.
(20) "Normally an item is adopted by the style leaders, then copied by retailers and trickles down that way, but with Birkenstocks, everyone is wearing the real thing," says Ursula Hudson, footwear course director at the London College of Fashion.