Usually means: Location identified for specific purpose.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spot: Merriam-Webster
  3. spot, spot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spot, spot: Wordnik
  8. spot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Spot, spot: Wiktionary
  10. spot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spot: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. SPOT, the spot: Dictionary.com
  14. spot (n.), spot (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SPOT (TSA program), SPOT (satellite), SPOT (satellites), SpoT, Spot (Star Trek), Spot (cat), Spot (chicken), Spot (comics), Spot (fish), Spot (franchise), Spot (music festival), Spot (producer), Spot (rapper), Spot, The Spot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spot: Rhymezone
  20. spot, spot (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spot: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. -spot, spot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. spot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spot: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Spot: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. Spot: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  4. SPOT: Investopedia
  5. -spot, spot: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. SPOT, Spot: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. -spot, spot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. -spot, spot: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spot (n.): Cats
  3. SPOT: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. -spot, spot: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. SPOT: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. SPOT: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spot, spot, spot, spot, spot, spot, spot, spot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the spot: Urban Dictionary

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spot: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  4. Spot: Body Building
  5. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Spot, The spot: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. spot: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. SPOT: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. spot: Coin Collecting
  8. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
noun:  A stain or disfiguring mark.
noun:  A pimple, papule or pustule.
noun:  A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
noun:  A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
noun:  (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
noun:  A location or area.
noun:  A parking space.
noun:  (sports) An official determination of placement.
noun:  A bright lamp; a spotlight.
noun:  (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
noun:  A difficult situation.
noun:  (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
noun:  (soccer) Penalty spot.
noun:  The act of spotting or noticing something.
noun:  A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
noun:  A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
noun:  The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
noun:  (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
noun:  (physics) An autosoliton.
noun:  (finance) A decimal point; point.
noun:  Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
noun:  Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
verb:  (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
verb:  (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
verb:  (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
verb:  (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
verb:  (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
verb:  (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
verb:  (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
verb:  (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
verb:  (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
verb:  (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
verb:  (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
verb:  (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
adjective:  (commerce, finance) Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.
noun:  A popular given name for a dog.

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