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# speckle

«speckle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small spot or mark of colour, one of many: "speckles of…** — 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 speckle, speckles); verb (speckle, speckles, speckled, speckling); adjective (speckled)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) A small spot or mark of colour, one of many: "speckles of paint". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#m1)

2) (verb) To cover with lots of small spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#m2)

3) (speckled, adjective) Covered with many small spots: a speckled egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons speckles help camouflage: speckled eggs, speckled trout and speckled birds blend into stones and leaves. In art lessons speckling (flicking paint off a toothbrush) makes stars or sand. In stories "speckled with" describes a surface dotted with something: a sky speckled with stars, a face speckled with freckles. Phrases: speckled with, speckled hen, speckled egg.

### examples

- The thrush's egg was blue with dark speckles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#x1)
- Her face was speckled with mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#x2)
- We speckled white paint on black paper to make stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#x3)
- The speckled frog sat on a log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#x4)
- The trout has a speckled back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#x5)
- The floor was speckled with sawdust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckle/#x6)

### note

"Speckled" (the adjective) is much more common than "speckle". Similar words: spot, dot, fleck, freckle. "Speckled with" + noun.

### In the corpora

- [Young gulls are brown and speckled; a herring gull takes about four years to look fully grown up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/13/)
- [Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica, formed deep underground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/48-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle/7/)
- [And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.929/)
- [Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.360/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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