Pellet vs Speck - What's the difference?
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A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
(heraldiccharge) A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
(countable) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
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, title= (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
* (Walter Savage Landor), quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor , Twayne Publishers,
A small etheostomoid fish, , common in the eastern United States.
To mark with specks; to speckle.
* 1667 , '', 1991, Stephen Orgel, ?Jonathan Goldberg (editors), ''The Major Works , 2003, paperback,
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
The fat of the hippopotamus.
Pellet is a related term of speck.
As nouns the difference between pellet and speck
is that pellet is a small, compressed, hard chunk of matter while speck is bacon.As a verb pellet
is to form into pellets.pellet
English
Noun
(en noun)- a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
Synonyms
*(to form into pellets) pelletize ----speck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Out of the gloom, passage=[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.}}
page 88,
- Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
Synonyms
* (small thing) See also .Verb
(en verb)- paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
page 534,
- Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained,
