name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fleck
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/flɛk/
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rhymes with -ɛk
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CMU ARPABET: F L EH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A flake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A lock, as of wool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mote, particle, speck, tittle
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A small amount.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a fleck of hope
- a fleck of imagination
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, dusting, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To mark (something) with small spots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fleak
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
a small contrasting part of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a bald spot
- a leopard's spots
- a patch of clouds
- patches of thin ice
- a fleck of red
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spot, speckle, dapple, patch, maculation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: marking
Narrower terms: speck, pinpoint, nebula, splash, worn spot, fret, plaque, macule, macula, parhelion, mock sun, sundog, sunspot, facula
noun
Meaning 8
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a bit of rock caught him in the eye
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, scrap
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fragment
Narrower terms: matchwood, scale, scurf, exfoliation, splinter, sliver
verb
Meaning 9
make a spot or mark onto
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The wine spotted the tablecloth
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spot, blob, blot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change surface
Narrower terms: splotch, tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile, speckle, bespeckle, spatter, bespatter
History
Etymology
From Middle English *flekk, *flekke (attested in Middle English flekked (“spotted, flecked”)), from Old Norse flekkr (“spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Dutch vlek, German Fleck, Swedish fläck.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: петно (petno) — small spot
- Bulgarian: точица (točica) — small spot
- Czech: skvrna — small spot
- Czech: flek — small spot
- Czech: flíček — small spot
- Czech: skvrnka — small spot
- Dutch: spikkel — small spot
- Finnish: täplä — small spot
- Finnish: pilkku — small spot
- French: tache — small spot
- German: Fleck — small spot
- Italian: puntino — small spot
- Norwegian: flekk — small spot
- Portuguese: mancha — small spot
- Portuguese: pinta — small spot
- Russian: кра́пинка (krápinka) — small spot
- Russian: пятно́ (pjatnó) — small spot
- Russian: пя́тнышко (pjátnyško) — small spot
- Spanish: mota — small spot
- Spanish: salpicadura — small spot
- Swedish: fläck — small spot
- Bulgarian: изпъстрям (izpǎstrjam) — to mark with small spots
- Dutch: bespikkelen — to mark with small spots
- Dutch: besprenkeln — to mark with small spots
- Finnish: täplittää — to mark with small spots
- French: moucheter — to mark with small spots
- French: tacheter — to mark with small spots
- Portuguese: manchar — to mark with small spots
- Spanish: jaspear — to mark with small spots
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