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SPOTTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
Example:
a black-and-white spotted cow
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb spot
Context examples:
A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June 16, 2018, puzzled astronomers and astrophysicists across the globe.
(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)
Both come in numerous colors; solid, mixed or spotted all over.
(Chinese Crested, NCI Thesaurus)
The color is liver and white, spotted, roan or ticked.
(German Wirehaired Pointer, NCI Thesaurus)
These forming galaxy clusters were first spotted as faint smudges of light.
(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)
The observations represent the first time that so-called heavy metals—elements heavier than hydrogen and helium—have been spotted escaping from a hot Jupiter, a large, gaseous exoplanet very close to its star.
(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)
The new species, named Rukwatitan bisepultus, was first spotted embedded in a cliff wall in the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania.
(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)
First spotted in 2008, WASP-12b circles a Sun-like star residing 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Auriga.
(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)
Ice in cold traps has previously been spotted on Mercury and, in a few cases, on the moon.
(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)
Since 2003, around 30 TNOs on highly elliptical orbits have been spotted: they stand out from the rest of the TNOs by sharing, on average, the same spatial orientation.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
I had bought a spotted wooden horse over-night as a parting gift to little Wilkins Micawber—that was the boy—and a doll for little Emma.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
