transcription, транскрипция: [ spɒt ]
( spots, spotting, spotted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Spots are small, round, coloured areas on a surface.
The leaves have yellow areas on the top and underneath are powdery orange spots...
The swimsuit comes in navy with white spots or blue with green spots.
N-COUNT : usu pl
2.
Spots on a person’s skin are small lumps or marks.
Never squeeze blackheads, spots or pimples.
N-COUNT : usu pl
3.
A spot of a liquid is a small amount of it. ( mainly BRIT )
Spots of rain had begun to fall...
N-COUNT : N of n
4.
If you have a spot of something, you have a small amount of it. ( mainly BRIT )
Mr Brooke is undoubtedly in a spot of bother...
We’ve given all the club members tea, coffee and a spot of lunch.
= bit
QUANT : QUANT of n-uncount
5.
You can refer to a particular place as a spot .
They stayed at several of the island’s top tourist spots...
They all stood there staring, as if frozen to the spot.
N-COUNT : usu supp N
6.
A spot in a television or radio show is a part of it that is regularly reserved for a particular performer or type of entertainment.
Unsuccessful at screen writing, he got a spot on a CNN film show.
= slot
N-COUNT : usu with supp
7.
If you spot something or someone, you notice them.
Vicenzo failed to spot the error...
VERB : V n
see also spotted , black spot , blind spot
8.
If you are on the spot , you are at the actual place where something is happening.
...areas where troops are on the spot and protecting civilians...
PHRASE : v-link PHR
9.
If you do something on the spot , you do it immediately.
James was called to see the producer and got the job on the spot...
PHRASE : PHR after v , PHR n
10.
If you put someone on the spot , you cause them to have to answer a difficult question or make a difficult decision.
He put me on the spot a bit because he invited me right in front of his mum and I didn’t particularly want to go...
Even clever people are not terribly clever when put on the spot.
PHRASE : V inflects
11.
rooted to the spot: see rooted
to have a soft spot for someone : see soft