Fleck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tiny mark or spot: flecks of mica in the rock.
  • n. A small bit or flake: flecks of foam; a fleck of dandruff.
  • v. To spot or streak: the path was flecked with sunlight.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A flake
  • n. A lock, as of wool.
  • n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • v. To mark with small spots
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
  • n. A spot; a streak; a speckle.
  • v. To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A spot; a streak; a splash; a stain.
  • n. Specifically In entomology, an irregular and generally elongate dot of color: applied especially to such dots on the wings of butterflies and moths.
  • To spot; streak or stripe; dapple. Also flecker.
  • n. A flake; a lock.
  • n. A dialectal form of flitch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
  • n. a small contrasting part of something
  • v. make a spot or mark onto
  • Verb Form
    flecked    flecking    fleckness    flecks   
    Form
    flecked    flecking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flake    spot    streak    speckle    variegate    dapple    freckle    dot   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cech    Czech    Dec    Eck    Lech    Lek    Peck    Quebec    bec    beck   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gobbet    speck    flake    dribble    gob    smutch    shovelful    drool    smear    clot