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# spotter

«spotter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who watches out for something, especially as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a spotter, spotters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A spotter is a person who watches out for something, especially as a hobby: a train spotter, a bird spotter, a plane spotter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#m1)

2) (sport) In gym and weightlifting, a spotter stands by to catch you or help if you lose control. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#m2)

3) A spotter is someone who watches for danger or for an enemy and reports it, like a fire spotter or an aircraft spotter in wartime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PE, gymnastics and trampolining, spotters keep others safe; that is a safety rule. Train spotters in the UK note down train numbers as a hobby. In history lessons, wartime spotters watched the sky for enemy planes. In storm chasing, weather spotters report tornadoes and storms.

### examples

- Grandpa has been a train spotter since he was a boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#x1)
- A spotter stood beside the trampoline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#x2)
- Never lift heavy weights without a spotter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#x3)
- Bird spotters waited quietly in the hide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#x4)
- In the war, spotters on rooftops watched for enemy planes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#x5)
- Weather spotters reported the tornado. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#x6)
- The talent spotter asked the girl to join the football academy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spotter/#x7)

### note

Countable: spotters. "Trainspotter" is sometimes used in the UK as a mild joke for someone who loves collecting small facts. Related verb: spot (to notice).

### In the corpora

- [That is AI at its best: a patient pattern-spotter helping people do something they could not do alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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