Meaning

1 senses
  1. To mark with specks; to speckle.

    paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

    produce specks in or on

Examples

11 sentences
  1. This world is a mere speck of dust.

    Цей всесвіт лише пилинка. — Ahha

    deDiese Welt ist nur ein Staubkorn. — Yorwba

  2. There wasn't even a speck of dust on the table.

    Жодної пилинки не було на столі. — Ahha

    ruНа столе не было ни пылинки. — Wezel

    deAuf dem Tisch war nicht ein einziges Staubkörnchen. — Yorwba

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  3. He thought of himself as a speck of dust in an immensely vast universe.

    Він думав про себе, як про пилинку в надзвичайно просторому Всесвіті. — Ahha

    deEr verstand sich als ein Staubkörnchen in einem unermesslich großen Universum. — samueldora

  4. The room is empty apart from the speck of dust floating in the air.

    Кімната порожня, якщо не враховувати пилинки, яка літає в повітрі. — Ahha

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  5. I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.

    Я вважаю, що пилинка завдала б йому більше болю, ніж кульове поранення. — Ahha

Origin

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same u

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).

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Forms

specks, specking, specked, specked
Base formspeck · to speck
3rd person singularspecks
Present participlespecking
Past simplespecked
Past participlespecked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyspeck
he, she, itspecks

Past simpleLesson

all personsspecked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave specked
he, she, ithas specked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill speck

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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