different between speck vs granule

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?k/
• Homophone: spec
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).

Noun

speck (plural specks)

1. A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
2. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

   • a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88,

     Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
3. (zoology) A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

Translations

Verb

speck (third-person singular simple present specks, present participle specking, simple past and past participle specked)

1. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.

   paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1991, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan Goldberg (editors), The Major Works, 2003, paperback, page 534,

     Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained,

Etymology 2

From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-Germanic *spikk?, *spik? (“bacon”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.

Noun

speck (uncountable)

1. Fat; lard; fat meat.
2. (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
3. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
4. The fat of the hippopotamus.

Translations

Anagrams

• pecks

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Speck, from Middle High German spec, from Old High German spek, from Proto-Germanic *spik? (“bacon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?k/
• Hyphenation: spèck

Noun

speck m (invariable)

1. speck (type of ham)

   Hypernym: salume

Further reading

• Speck Alto Adige on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

References

• speck in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin granulum, diminutive of Latin granum (“grain”); for more, see grain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???anju?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???ænjul/, /???ænj?l/

Noun

granule (plural granules)

1. A tiny grain, a small particle.
2. (biology) A small structure in a cell.
3. (geology) A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
4. (astronomy) a small mark in the photosphere of the sun caused by convection currents. See also Wikipedia:Granule (solar physics).

Related terms

• grain
• granular
• granularity
• granulate
• granulation

Translations

Further reading

• granule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• granule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• langure, unregal

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: granulent, granules

Verb

granule

1. first-person singular present indicative of granuler
2. third-person singular present indicative of granuler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of granuler
5. second-person singular imperative of granuler

Spanish

Verb

granule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of granular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of granular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of granular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of granular.