different between fleck vs spec

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

fleck (plural flecks)

1. A flake
2. A lock, as of wool.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Martin to this entry?)

3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Talking Oak

     A sunny fleck.

Translations

Verb

fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)

1. (transitive) To mark with small spots

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Translations

Luxembourgish

Verb

fleck

1. second-person singular imperative of flecken

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?k/
• Homophone: speck

Noun

spec (plural specs)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of specification.

2. (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
3. Clipping of specialization.
4. Clipping of specialist.
5. Clipping of special.
6. (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
7. (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.
8. (dialect) a special place (for hiding or viewing)
9. (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.

Derived terms

• on spec

Translations

Verb

spec (third-person singular simple present specs, present participle speccing, simple past and past participle specced)

1. (transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document.

Translations

Anagrams

• CEPs, CPEs, CSPE, ECPs, EPCs, PESC, Pécs, ceps, pecs

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian spezie (“spices”), ultimately from Latin speci?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?t?s/

Noun

spec m (indefinite plural speca, definite singular speci, definite plural specat)

1. (botany) pepper (Capsicum annuum)
2. paprika
3. (adjective) cranky

Declension

Synonyms

• piperkë
• gogozhare

References