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Pronunciation: [spˈɛks] (IPA)

Specks are tiny particles or flecks that appear on a surface or are visible in a certain environment. Synonyms for specks include dots, spots, particles, smudges, flecks, grains, pinpoints, speckles, and dashes. Specks can be found on a variety of surfaces, such as clothing, skin, furniture, and flooring. They can also be present in liquids, gases, and in the air we breathe. The term specks can be used in various contexts, including science, art, and everyday life, to describe minute details or imperfections. Identifying these tiny particles can be important in maintaining hygiene, cleanliness, and safety in various situations.
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  • Other hypernyms:

    particle, speck of dust, particle of debris, particle of matter, speck of dirt, speck of grit, speck of lint.

Usage examples for Specks

I could detect only some dark specks on the snow, which looked like a hundred others that I knew to be rocks.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Bright and blessed the morning that should rise on such a night; for men, delayed no more by stumbling-blocks of their own making, which are but specks of dust upon the path between them and eternity, would then apply themselves, like creatures of one common origin, owing one duty to the father of one family, and tending to one common end to make the world a better place!
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Perched on the rocky hillside, he would look down upon a gathering of black specks, where two others stood detached upon a space in their midst, and would know that there his father was hanging a man.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman

Famous quotes with Specks

  • You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.
    Ruth St. Denis
  • "What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
    Jack Kerouac
  • As I sit at my desk, I know where I am. I see before me a window; beyond that some trees; beyond that the red roofs of the campus of Stanford University; beyond them the trees and the roof tops which mark the town of Palo Alto; beyond them the bare golden hills of the Hamilton Range... beyond that other mountains, range upon range, until we come to the Rockies; beyond that the Great Plains and the Mississippi; beyond that the Alleghenies; beyond that the eastern seaboard; beyond that the Atlantic Ocean; beyond that is Europe; beyond that is Asia. I know, furthermore, that if I go far enough I will come back to where I am now. In other words, I have a picture of the earth as round. I visualize it as a globe. I am a little hazy on some of the details... I probably could not draw a very good map of Indonesia, but I have a fair idea where everything is located on the face of this globe. Looking further, I visualize the globe as a small speck circling around a bright star which is the sun, in the company of many other similar specks, the planets. Looking still further, I see our star the sun as a member of millions upon millions of others in the Galaxy. Looking still further, I visualize the Galaxy as one of millions upon millions of others in the universe.
    Kenneth Boulding
  • As geological time goes, it is but a moment since the human race began and only the twinkling of an eye since the arts of civilization were first invented. In spite of some alarmists, it is hardly likely that our species will completely exterminate itself. And so long as man continues to exist, we may be pretty sure that, whatever he may suffer for a time, and whatever brightness may be eclipsed, he will emerge sooner or later, perhaps strengthened and reinvigorated by a period of mental sleep. The universe is vast and men are but tiny specks on an insignificant planet. But the more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
    Bertrand Russell

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