Definition of spots

"spots" in the noun sense

1. topographic point, place, spot

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

"floaters seem to drift through the field of vision"

"this is a nice place for a picnic"

"a bright spot on a planet"

2. spot

a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising

3. point, spot

an outstanding characteristic

"his acting was one of the high points of the movie"

4. smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur

a blemish made by dirt

"he had a smudge on his cheek"

5. spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation

a small contrasting part of something

"a bald spot"

"a leopard's spots"

"a patch of clouds"

"patches of thin ice"

"a fleck of red"

6. spot

a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance

"they changed his spot on the program"

7. spot

a business establishment for entertainment

"night spot"

8. position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation

a job in an organization

"he occupied a post in the treasury"

9. touch, spot

a slight attack of illness

"he has a touch of rheumatism"

10. spot, bit

a small piece or quantity of something

"a spot of tea"

"a bit of paper"

"a bit of lint"

"I gave him a bit of my mind"

11. spot, pip

a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)

12. spotlight, spot

a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area used to focus attention of a stage performer

13. spot

a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value

"an eight-spot"

14. blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain

an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

"he made a huge blot on his copybook"

"spots" in the verb sense

1. descry, spot, espy, spy

catch sight of

2. spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart

detect with the senses

"The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"

"I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

3. blemish, spot

mar or impair with a flaw

"her face was blemished"

4. spot, fleck, blob, blot

make a spot or mark onto

"The wine spotted the tablecloth"

5. spot

become spotted

"This dress spots quickly"

6. spot

mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition

"spot the areas that one should clearly identify"

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Quotations for spots

Can the leopard his spots? [ Bible ]

In an enemy, spots are soon seen. [ Proverb ]

In a leopard the spots are not observed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In an ermine, spots are soon discovered. [ Proverb ]

Rich men's spots are covered with money. [ Proverb ]

Look, the gentle day,
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. [ William Shakespeare ]

Point not at other's spots with a foul finger. [ Proverb ]

The brightest of all things,, the sun, hath its spots. [ Proverb ]

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works: they have eyes only for spots and blemishes. [ Addison ]

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a house of mourning, I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? [ Haliburton ]

spots in Scrabble®

The word spots is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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spots in Words With Friends™

The word spots is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of spots

2 letter words in spots (3 words)

3 letter words in spots (6 words)

4 letter words in spots (9 words)

5 letter words in spots (Anagrams) (3 words)

Words containing the sequence spots

Words that start with spots (1 word)

Words with spots in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving spots

Shorter words in spots

pot pots

pot spot

Longer words containing spots

bespots

coldspots

deadspots

despots

eyespots

finspots

fusspots

heatspots

highspots

hotspots

inkspots

lowspots

nightspots

pisspots

respots

starspots

sunspots

tosspots