· a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
Synonym(s): spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck
Hypernym(s): marking
· the act of spotting or staining something
Synonym(s): staining, spotting
Hypernym(s): soiling, soilure, dirtying