Synonyms of the word

fleck

• n. A flake.
• n. A lock, as of wool.
• n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
• v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

blob

• n. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance;…
• n. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas…
• n. (dialect) A bubble, a bleb.
• n. A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
• v. (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
• n. Alternative spelling of BLOB.

blot

• n. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
• n. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
• n. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
• n. (backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
• v. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
• v. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
• v. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
• v. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
• v. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
• v. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
• v. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

chip

• n. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
• n. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
• n. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
• n. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
• n. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square…
• n. (US, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes…
• n. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to…
• n. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
• n. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
• n. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
• n. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
• n. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent…
• n. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
• n. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making…
• n. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
• n. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
• v. (transitive) To break into small pieces.
• v. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
• v. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
• v. (transitive, sports) In association football, specifically, to play a shot on goal by kicking the ball…
• v. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
• v. (intransitive) To become chipped.
• v. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
• v. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
• v. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

dapple

• n. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
• n. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
• adj. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
• v. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

flake

• n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
• n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
• v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• n. (Britain) Dogfish.
• n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
• n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fragment

• n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
• n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
• n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
• v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

maculation

• n. (Shakespearian) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. See immaculate.

marking

• v. present participle of mark.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to mark.
• n. a mark.
• n. the characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.

patch

• n. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen…
• n. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
• n. A repair intended to be used for a limited time; (differs from previous usage in that it is intended to…
• n. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location,…
• n. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
• n. An area of professional responsibility.
• n. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty; an imitation beauty mark.
• n. (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
• n. (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug…
• n. (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
• n. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
• n. (computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program or that describes changes made to a…
• n. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
• n. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
• n. (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical…
• n. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
• v. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
• v. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
• v. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
• v. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
• v. A temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
• v. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner.
• v. (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence.
• v. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
• n. (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

speckle

• n. A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
• n. (physics) The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface.
• v. To mark with speckles.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.