maculation — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • вышедшее из употребления
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   I speak not ‘be thou true,’ as fearing thee, For I will throw my glove to Death himself, That there’s no maculation in thy heart:

   Другие примеры (1)

   1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218, He could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay.

2. A pattern of spots.

   Употребление

   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   Females [of the species Speyeria nokomis] are cream above with heavy black maculation accompanied by much dark suffusion.

   Другие примеры (1)

   1990, Mason E. Hale, A Synopsis of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia (Vainio) Hale (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 195, [This lichen] species […] is recognized by […] more or less distinct maculation on the upper surface, and pale brown lower surface.

Существительное

1. a small contrasting part of something

   Синонимы

   spotspeckledapplepatchfleck

   Более общие понятия

   marking

   Примеры

   a bald spot

   a leopard's spots

   Другие примеры (3)

   a patch of clouds

   patches of thin ice

   a fleck of red

2. the act of spotting or staining something

   Синонимы

   stainingspotting

   Более общие понятия

   soilingsoiluredirtying