(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.
Tache
Definition:
(n.) Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
(n.) A spot, stain, or blemish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tache cérébrale, not previously described in the diagnosis of RSD, is a helpful sign of vasomotor dysfunction.
(2) For the mesh-base bracket in tension and shear, Bond-Eze, Adaptic, and Solo-Tach were the most retentive materials when used with the 60-mesh base, and Genie was the least retentive.
(3) , who grew his tache in 2010 because of “self-employed procrastination” ie boredom, but is reluctant to shave his off because it would make him look younger.
(4) The most frequent symptoms found were: fever 100%, "tache noire" 87%, and a maculopapular rash 81%.
(5) Intoxication of rats by 0,0-dimethyl-0-2,2-dichlorovinylphosphate (DDVPh) leads to marked biochemical changes of transcriptionally active (TACh) and repressed (RCh) liver chromatin fractions.
(6) A comparison with the Nuva system was made and a modification was described for a useful combination technique, namely, Enamel Bond-Nuva-Tach, which takes advantage of certain attributes of each.
(7) Besides the classical clinical triad of the disease (fever, rash and lesion at the site of tick bite, 'tache noire'), these patients presented purpuric rash and hypoalbuminemia, previously identified in severe forms of the disease.
(8) In rats anaesthetized with barbiturate nearly all the tach responses showed a slower onset and prolonged action.
(9) Both groups showed similar reductions in AP and cardiac output (CO); however, stroke volume (SV) was reduced to a greater extent (P less than 0.029) in the TACH group.
(10) Frozen sections of biopsy specimens of the initial lesion (tache noire) taken on the admission day were processed by a fluorescent conjugate reactive against Rickettsia conorii.
(11) Atropine eliminated or reversed the bradycardia in the BRAD group and propranolol blocked the tachycardia in the TACH group.
(12) The tache noire offers an excellent, accessible model for the study of the human-rickettsia interaction, including the pathogenic mechanisms leading to necrosis and the immune mechanisms resulting in killing the rickettsiae.
(13) Immunofluorescent Rickettsia conorii were demonstrated in 14 of 17 taches noires.
(14) The role of milky spots (taches laiteuses) in oncogenesis by asbestos and virus, especially in the induction of mesothelioma, is discussed.
(15) But even that association backfired: whenever the media ran a negative story about Dov Charney, former chief executive of American Apparel, they used an image of Charney with his tache – this despite the fact that his dates back to 2004 and he only had it for less than nine months.
(16) Prospective investigation of cutaneous lesions of 24 Sicilian patients revealed that 17 were taches noires from patients with a documented diagnosis of boutonneuse fever.
(17) A dolf Hitler was, of course, guilty of many crimes, but it's tempting to think that what annoyed Charlie Chaplin the most was his appropriation of his trademark 'tache.
(18) All patients presented fever with a generalised maculopapular rash, and the tache noire at the site of the tick bite.
(19) Clinical diagnosis is generally based upon the presence of a febrile eruption with or without the typical tache noire.
(20) The tache noire at the site of the tick bite was seen in 166 cases (73%).