spot
Definitions
General English
- noun a particular place
- noun a small round mark or pimple on the skin
- verb to notice something or someone
Aviation
- noun a special or small place
Banking
- adjective done immediately
- noun a place for an advertisement on a TV or radio show
- noun the buying of something for immediate delivery
Construction
- In gypsum construction, to treat fastener heads with joint compound material. As the fastener sets below the surface of the board, an indentation is formed, allowing a recess, which is filled by spotting.
Economics
Electronics
- A specified point or comparatively small location or region. For example, a cathode spot, a dead spot, a hot spot, a focal spot, or a recording spot.
- On a display, such as a CRT, the luminous area created at any given instant by an electron beam.
- adjective referring to a news report that is broadcast from the place where it happens
- noun a brief announcement or advertisement inserted between regular radio or television programmes
- noun a lamp with a narrow, focused beam, concentrating the light on one spot.
Military
- verb to observe and direct artillery fire (usually from an aircraft)
Sports
- verb to watch someone performing an exercise
- verb to identify someone, especially a performer, as having a promising talent worthy of being developed to a high, often professional standard
General Science
- acronym forSystème Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre
(written as SPOT)
Origin & History of “spot”
Spot may
have been borrowed
from Low German
spot or
middle Dutch
spotte.
these point back to a prehistoric Germanic *
sput-,
which also produced Norwegian
spott ‘speck, spot’.
there may also be
some connection
with Old
English splott ‘spot’.
