fleck

«fleck» in Mova's school dictionary: a tiny spot or mark of colour, or a small piece of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a fleck, flecks); verb (fleck, flecks, flecked, flecking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A fleck is a tiny spot or mark of colour, or a small piece of something, like a fleck of paint or dust. tree →

2) (verb) To be flecked with something means to have small spots of it scattered over it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and descriptive writing it helps paint a precise picture: «green eyes with flecks of gold». In everyday life it describes small bits: «a fleck of mud». Phrases: «flecks of», «flecked with».

examples

• There was a fleck of paint on her nose. tree →
• His eyes were blue with flecks of grey. tree →
• The bird's feathers were flecked with white. tree →
• I found a fleck of gold in the stream. tree →
• Flecks of snow drifted past the window. tree →
• The wall was flecked with mud after the football game. tree →
• It was written on a leaflet of paper heavily flecked with gold-dust. tree →

note

Countable: a fleck, flecks. Past form: flecked (used as an adjective too: «a flecked egg»). Similar words: speck, spot, dot. «Fleck» is used more for colour; «speck» for dust and dirt.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fleck» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.