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Speck
01
a slight but appreciable amount
02
a very small spot
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
specks
03
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
to speck
01
to mark something with tiny particles or spots
Transitive: to speck a surface with a substance or pattern | to speck a surface
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
speck
3rd person singular
specks
Present participle
specking
Past simple
specked
Past participle
specked
Examples
As the baker sifted flour, it began to speck the kitchen counter with fine white powder.
Lexical Tree
speckless
speck
