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spotting
Overview of noun spotting
The noun spotting has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. staining, spotting, maculation -- (the act of spotting or staining something)
2. detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting -- (the act of detecting something; catching sight of something)
Overview of verb spot
The verb spot has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (18) descry, spot, espy, spy -- (catch sight of)
2. blemish, spot -- (mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished")
3. spot, fleck, blob, blot -- (make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth")
4. spot -- (become spotted; "This dress spots quickly")
5. spot -- (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spotting
2 senses of spotting
Sense 1
staining, spotting, maculation
=> soiling, soilure, dirtying
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
=> discovery, find, uncovering
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun spotting
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spotting
2 senses of spotting
Sense 1
staining, spotting, maculation
=> soiling, soilure, dirtying
Sense 2
detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
=> discovery, find, uncovering
Antonyms of noun spotting
Member Holonyms of noun spotting
Substance Holonyms of noun spotting
Part Holonyms of noun spotting
Member Meronyms of noun spotting
Substance Meronyms of noun spotting
Part Meronyms of noun spotting
Meronyms of noun spotting
Holonyms of noun spotting
Attributes of noun spotting
Derived Forms of noun spotting
2 senses of spotting
Sense 1
staining, spotting, maculation
RELATED TO>(verb) spot#3
=> spot, fleck, blob, blot
Sense 2
detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
RELATED TO>(verb) spot#1
=> descry, spot, espy, spy
Domain of noun spotting
Domain Terms of noun spotting
Familiarity of noun spotting
spotting used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun spotting
2 senses of spotting
Sense 1
staining, spotting, maculation
> soiling, soilure, dirtying
=> staining, spotting, maculation
=> contamination, pollution
Sense 2
detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
> discovery, find, uncovering
=> detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
=> self-discovery
=> breakthrough
=> determination, finding
=> rediscovery
Meronyms of noun spotting
2 senses of spotting
Holonyms of noun spotting
Grep of noun spotting
spotting
Antonyms of verb spot
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb spot
5 senses of spot
Sense 1
descry, spot, espy, spy
=> sight
=> perceive, comprehend
Sense 2
blemish, spot
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
spot, fleck, blob, blot
=> change surface
=> change
Sense 4
spot
=> change
Sense 5
spot
=> mark
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb spot
3 of 5 senses of spot
Sense 3
spot, fleck, blob, blot
=> splotch
=> tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile
=> speckle, bespeckle
=> spatter, bespatter
Sense 4
spot
=> freckle
=> fox
Sense 5
spot
=> freckle
=> mottle, dapple, cloud
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb spot
5 senses of spot
Sense 1
descry, spot, espy, spy
=> sight
Sense 2
blemish, spot
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
Sense 3
spot, fleck, blob, blot
=> change surface
Sense 4
spot
=> change
Sense 5
spot
=> mark
'Cause To' of verb spot
Derived Forms of verb spot
4 of 5 senses of spot
Sense 1
descry, spot, espy, spy
RELATED TO>(noun) spotter#3
=> lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket
RELATED TO>(noun) spotter#4
=> finder, discoverer, spotter
RELATED TO>(noun) spotting#2
=> detection, catching, espial, spying, spotting
Sense 3
spot, fleck, blob, blot
RELATED TO>(noun) spot#3
=> smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
RELATED TO>(noun) spotting#1
=> staining, spotting, maculation
Sense 4
spot
RELATED TO>(noun) spot#3
=> smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
Sense 5
spot
RELATED TO>(noun) spot#4
=> spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
RELATED TO>(noun) spotter#2
=> spotter
Domain of verb spot
Domain Terms of verb spot
Familiarity of verb spot
spot used as a verb is common (polysemy count =5)
Sample Sentences of verb spot
5 senses of spot
Sense 1
descry, spot, espy, spy
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
blemish, spot
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
spot, fleck, blob, blot
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 4
spot
*> Something ----s
Sense 5
spot
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb spot
5 senses of spot
Sense 1
descry, spot, espy, spy
> sight
=> descry, spot, espy, spy
=> detect, observe, find, discover, notice
Sense 2
blemish, spot
> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> foul
=> pollute, foul, contaminate
=> smear
=> slime
=> muddy, muddy up
=> splash
=> mire, muck, mud, muck up
=> crock
=> blemish, spot
Sense 3
spot, fleck, blob, blot
> change surface
=> level, level off
=> crust
=> heave, buckle, warp
=> curl, curve, kink
=> unfurl, unroll
=> roll up, wrap up
=> marbleize, marbleise
=> smooth, smoothen
=> roughen
=> fold, fold up, turn up
=> flush, level, even out, even
=> tease
=> impress, imprint
=> spot, fleck, blob, blot
Sense 4
spot
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 5
spot
> mark
=> dot
=> stigmatize, stigmatise
=> raddle
=> striate
=> red-ink
=> dimple
=> spot
=> crisscross
=> star, asterisk
=> flag
=> tip
=> underline, underscore
=> stripe
=> speck
=> bespot
=> trace, draw, line, describe, delineate
=> stake, post
=> brand
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb spot
Sense 1
descry, spot, espy, spy
=> sight
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Sense 2
blemish, spot
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
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Sense 3
spot, fleck, blob, blot
=> change surface
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Sense 4
spot
=> change
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Sense 5
spot
=> mark
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Grep of verb spot
bespot
spot
spot-check
spot-weld
spot jam
spot promote
spotlight
spotweld
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