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Type Words
Synonyms berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation
Type of line, line of work, business, occupation, job
Has types commandership, commandery, comptrollership, consulship, controllership, councillorship, councilorship, counsellorship, counselorship, curacy, curatorship, custodianship, deanery, deanship, directorship, discipleship, editorship, eldership, emirate, episcopate, fatherhood, feudal lordship, foremanship, solicitorship, accountantship, admiralty, ambassadorship, apostleship, apprenticeship, associateship, attorneyship, bailiffship, baronetage, bishopry, cadetship, caliphate, captaincy, captainship, cardinalate, cardinalship, chair, chairmanship, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chaplainship, chieftaincy, chieftainship, clerkship, generalcy, generalship, governorship, headship, hot seat, incumbency, inspectorship, instructorship, internship, judgeship, judicature, khanate, lectureship, legateship, legation, legislatorship, librarianship, lieutenancy, magistracy, magistrature, managership, manhood, marshalship, mastership, mayoralty, messiahship, moderatorship, overlordship, pastorate, pastorship, peasanthood, plum, praetorship, precentorship, preceptorship, prefecture, prelacy, prelature, premiership, presidency, presidentship, primateship, principalship, priorship, proconsulate, proconsulship, proctorship, professorship, protectorship, public office, rabbinate, receivership, rectorate, rectorship, regency, residency, rulership, sainthood, secretaryship, seigneury, seigniory, senatorship, sinecure, academicianship, speakership, stewardship, studentship, teachership, thaneship, throne, treasurership, tribuneship, trusteeship, vice-presidency, viceroyship, viziership, wardenship, wardership, womanhood
Type Words
Synonyms blot, smear, smirch, stain
Type of error, mistake, fault
Type Words
Synonyms dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, speckle
Type of marking
Has types facula, worn spot, fret, solar facula, speck, splash, macula, macule, sundog, sunspot, mock sun, nebula, parhelion, pinpoint, plaque


a bald spot.
a leopard's spots.
Type Words
Synonyms spotlight
Type of lamp
Type Words
Synonyms place, topographic point
Type of point
Has types hiding place, high, hole-in-the-wall, holy, holy place, end, tomb, top, birthplace, polling place, place of birth, peak, overlook, polling station, zone, crest, puddle, crown, nesting place, target area, rendezvous, target, mecca, sanctum, scour, summit, pool, service area, grave, showplace, heights, stop, tip, junction, solitude


a bright spot on a planet.
Type Words
Synonyms pip
Type of mark, marker, marking
Type Words
Synonyms point
Type of characteristic
Type Words
Synonyms bit
Type of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount


a spot of tea.
Type Words
Synonyms touch
Type of attack
Type Words
Synonyms discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart
Has types resolve, discriminate
Type Words
Synonyms blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge
Type of mar, defect, blemish
Has types fingerprint, blotch, splotch, fingermark, splodge, inkblot
Type Words
Synonyms blob, blot, fleck
Type of change surface
Has types stain, splotch, defile, speckle, bespeckle, bespatter, maculate, tarnish, spatter, sully
Verb group stain
Derivation spotting


The wine spotted the tablecloth.
Type Words
Synonyms descry, espy, spy
Type of spy, sight
Derivation spotting, spotter
Type Words
Synonyms blemish
Type of begrime, dirty, grime, bemire, colly, soil
Type Words
Type of business establishment, place of business
Has types hot spot, nightclub, night club, cabaret, clip joint, joint, nightspot, club, hotspot


night spot.
Type Words
Type of playing card
Has types four, five-spot, six, five, nine-spot, nine, six-spot, four-spot, seven, eight, seven-spot, eight-spot, ten-spot, ten


an eight-spot.
Type Words
Type of subdivision, section


they changed his spot on the program.
Type Words
Type of section, subdivision
Type Words
Type of change
Has types freckle, fox


This dress spots quickly.
Type Words
Type of mark
Has types freckle, dapple, cloud, mottle
Derivation spotter


spot the areas that one should clearly identify.

Examples of spot

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The closest a Cardinals'spot in the order comes to this group is the No. 2 spot.
From the stltoday.com
The Stella Artois spot marks the first time A-B has advertised an imported brew.
From the stltoday.com
Her first stick with the needle didn't work, so she tried again in another spot.
From the news-journalonline.com
The Bucks are three games behind Indiana for the final playoff spot in the East.
From the sacbee.com
Thomas will spot up for medium-range jumpers and can play off Boozer's post ups.
From the dailyherald.com
This breakfast spot is where the surfers go for mega-omelets and mahi-mahi eggs.
From the online.wsj.com
Lansing handed him the starting spot early in the season and never regretted it.
From the kansas.com
The foliage is gone in winter, making it easier to spot the game, Braubach said.
From the chron.com
Manchin serves on the board, which is considering three candidates for the spot.
From the timesunion.com
More examples
  • Descry: catch sight of
  • Topographic point: a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"
  • A short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
  • Detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
  • Blemish: mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished"
  • Point: an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
  • SpoT is a bacterial protein that hydrolizes alarmones, (p)ppGpp, in the bacterial stringent response.
  • And One is a German new wave, synthpop and EBM band founded by Steve Naghavi and Chris Ruiz in 1989.
  • A Beanie Baby is a stuffed animal, made by Ty Warner Inc., which was later renamed as Ty Inc. in late 1993. Each toy has an inner "posable lining" and is stuffed with plastic pellets (or "beans") rather than conventional stuffing (see PVC and PE), giving Beanie Babies a flexible feel.