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Despot vs Respot - What's the difference?

despot | respot |

As a noun despot

is a ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

As a verb respot is

to replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.

despot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
  • (label) A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)

    • Derived terms

    * despotate * despotism

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    respot

    English

    Verb

  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
  • (railways)
  • * 1963 , Central Railway Club of Buffalo, Chronicle (volumes 72-76, page 79)
    • This method insures that the stopping of cars will not gradually fall out of tolerance with a consequent loss of time to respot .
  • * 1990 , American Railway Bridge and Building Association, Proceedings (page 109)
    • Sanding should be performed in conjunction with fueling to avoid respotting locomotives.

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