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# fleck

«fleck» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tiny spot or mark of colour, or a small piece of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a fleck, flecks); verb (fleck, flecks, flecked, flecking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fleck is a tiny spot or mark of colour, or a small piece of something, like a fleck of paint or dust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#m1)

2) (verb) To be flecked with something means to have small spots of it scattered over it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art and descriptive writing it helps paint a precise picture: «green eyes with flecks of gold». In everyday life it describes small bits: «a fleck of mud». Phrases: «flecks of», «flecked with».

### examples

- There was a fleck of paint on her nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#x1)
- His eyes were blue with flecks of grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#x2)
- The bird's feathers were flecked with white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#x3)
- I found a fleck of gold in the stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#x4)
- Flecks of snow drifted past the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#x5)
- The wall was flecked with mud after the football game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#x6)
- It was written on a leaflet of paper heavily flecked with gold-dust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/#x7)

### note

Countable: a fleck, flecks. Past form: flecked (used as an adjective too: «a flecked egg»). Similar words: speck, spot, dot. «Fleck» is used more for colour; «speck» for dust and dirt.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fleck» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleck/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.