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# speck

«speck» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very small spot, mark or piece of something, like dust…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a speck, specks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A speck is a very small spot, mark or piece of something, like dust or dirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#m1)

2) Something so far away that it looks like a tiny dot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#m2)

3) In old country speech, speck means to suppose or expect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in descriptive writing and stories: "a speck of dust", "the plane was just a speck in the sky". In science: a speck seen through a microscope. Phrases: "a speck of", "not a speck".

### examples

- There is a speck of dirt on your glasses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#x1)
- The plane became a speck in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#x2)
- Not a speck of dust was left after cleaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#x3)
- She saw a tiny speck under the microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#x4)
- The boat was just a speck on the horizon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#x5)
- There is a speck of paint on the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#x6)
- I speck he takin' a nap,' sezee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speck/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related: speckled (covered with little spots). Do not confuse with "specs" (informal for glasses).

### In the corpora

- [A flame is glowing hot gas; its yellow light comes from tiny specks of hot soot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/16/)
- [Jesus said to take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of your brother's eye.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/17/)
- [Paint shops are kept dust-free because one speck under the paint shows as a bump.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/8/)
- [A shooting star is not a star but a meteor: a speck of space rock burning up in the air.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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