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Spotting

noun

The act of spotting or staining something. Synonyms: maculation, staining.

The act of detecting something; catching sight of something. Synonyms: catching, detection, espial, spying.

Spot

verb

(past & past part. spotted; pres. part. spotting)

Catch sight of. Synonyms: descry, espy, spy.

Detect with the senses. Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart. "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

Mar or impair with a flaw. Synonym: blemish.

Make a spot or mark onto. Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck.

Become spotted.

Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition.

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"Spotting" Quotes from Famous Books

... credit for originating the scheme should be given to the new girl. "She's a live wire," he said to himself, though his deepest sympathies were for Miss Stein. And he saw the "smartness" of Mr. Meggison in "spotting" ...

— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson

... pickers and the harvesters with baskets; at the right two figures dancing to crush the juices from the grapes; and in the foreground a group with the finished wine. The confusion of figures at first is puzzling; but viewed simply as a spotting of bright colors there is no finer panel among them all. It is better to stand well back along the colonnade, and forgetting the subject, to delight in ...

— An Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition • Shelden Cheney