See speck in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.",
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"text": "Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.",
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"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The blubber of whales or other marine mammals."
],
"links": [
[
"blubber",
"blubber"
],
[
"whale",
"whale"
],
[
"marine",
"marine"
],
[
"mammal",
"mammal"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The fat of the hippopotamus."
],
"links": [
[
"fat",
"fat"
],
[
"hippopotamus",
"hippopotamus"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɛk/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-speck.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/21/En-us-speck.ogg/En-us-speck.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/En-us-speck.ogg"
},
{
"homophone": "spec"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛk"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tlǎstina",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тлъстина"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"word": "pekk"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"word": "rasv"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"word": "ihra"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"word": "läski"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grasso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lardo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "salo",
"sense": "fat, lard",
"word": "сало"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "juniper-flavoured ham",
"word": "speck-kinkku"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "juniper-flavoured ham",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "speck"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "juniper-flavoured ham",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "spectile"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "blubber of whales",
"word": "traani"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fat of hippopotamus",
"word": "virtahevon ihra"
}
],
"word": "speck"
}
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "speck",
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}
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