What's the difference between spit and spot?

Spit


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
  • (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
  • (n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
  • (n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
  • (n.) To spade; to dig.
  • (v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spit
  • (n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
  • (n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
  • (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
  • (v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
  • (v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (3) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
  • (4) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
  • (5) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
  • (6) Raised in Manchester, Coogan began his comedy career in Ipswich in the 1980s, supplementing stand-up with voiceover work and impressions for Spitting Image, before moving to Radio 4 to work with Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci on On the Hour.
  • (7) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
  • (8) She might as well spit "Don't tell me I can't let my personal life affect my professional judgment" through a mouthful of Jaffa Cakes.
  • (9) In addition, SPIT does not require sophisticated equipment or expensive reagents.
  • (10) For starters, any Swiss finishing school would definitely have an issue with the volume and velocity of spit that gets produced on the pitch.
  • (11) Both aneurysm were successfully clipped but Mark remained hemiplegic with severe physical and behavioural problems, including incontinence, sexual disinhibition, aggression and uninhibited spitting.
  • (12) Trying to outspit a spitting cobra This was another mad challenge for my series Michaela's Wild Challenge!
  • (13) However, a considerable proportion of the respondents harbored incorrect beliefs regarding mosquito transmission and dangers to blood donors, and many showed uncertainty or incorrect knowledge regarding possible HIV transmission by biting, spitting, or use of public toilets.
  • (14) 2006 : Fifa vice-president Jack Warner welcomes questions from an investigative reporter asking about alleged corruption: "I would spit on you – but I will not dignify you with my spit ... go fuck yourself ... no foreigner, particularly a white foreigner, will come to my country and harass me."
  • (15) They would then spit on batons and rape us with them.
  • (16) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
  • (17) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
  • (18) There, with pleasing historical symmetry, it was placed within spitting distance of the statue of another famous French Jew, three times prime minister Leon Blum.
  • (19) The letter did not directly mention Muslims, and began instead by attacking people who drop litter or spit on buses.
  • (20) In June, the owner, Oliver Poiss, threw a huge summer solstice party with six wild boar roasting on spits and a $10,000 equipment giveaway.

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.