Spot
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The common noun or verb spot has many meanings in English.
Otherwise, Spot or SPOT may refer to:
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[edit] Fiction
- Spot the Dog, a series of children's books adapted for animation
- Spot (chicken), a character in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
- Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain
- Spot (Star Trek), a pet cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- A character in the cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey
- A pet dragon in the TV series The Munsters
- A pet dog in the Dick and Jane textbook series
- Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series.
- A deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall, who is initially assumed to be a harmless mistyping of "dog".
[edit] Localities
- The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia
[edit] Music
- Spot (album), by the synthpop band And One
- Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark
- SPOT (producer), the house producer and engineer for the label SST Records
- Spot (rapper/producer)
- Singing Priests of Tagbilaran, a Filipino musical group
- Jerry Chamberlain, the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
- An acronym for "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly", the name the Sex Pistols toured under in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Biology
- Spot croaker, a fish (Leiostomus xanthurus)
- SpoT (Biology), a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp
- Spot (disease), several typically spot-forming fungal or bacterial leaf diseases on plants, caused for example by Diplocarpon variants (Black Spot on roses)
- Pimple, a skin blemish
- Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless)
- Metrorrhagia, vaginal bleeding that is not synchronized with a menstrual period.
[edit] Other meanings
- Cool Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks
- Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves
- SPOT (satellites), Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre, Earth-observing satellite family
- SPOT Satellite Messenger
- Spot date, a financial term
- Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush
- Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today
- Smart Personal Objects Technology, a Microsoft initiative
- Scott Draves, (known as 'Spot'), digital artist and VJ
- A nickname for a spotlight
- Old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars
- "Screening passengers by observation techniques" (SPOT), an airport security technique
- Spots (cannabis) are a method of smoking cannabis. In the United States this is often called hotknifing.
- Single Point of Truth, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering.
- USS Spot, an American submarine that served during World War II.
- Spot market is a financial market, in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery ("on the spot").
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