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Speck vs Locality - What's the difference?

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Speck is a related term of locality.


As nouns the difference between speck and locality

is that speck is bacon while locality is the fact or quality of having a position in space.

speck

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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, 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.
  • A small etheostomoid fish, , common in the eastern United States.
    • Synonyms
    * (small thing) See also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark with specks; to speckle.
    • paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
  • * 1667 , '', 1991, Stephen Orgel, ?Jonathan Goldberg (editors), ''The Major Works , 2003, paperback, page 534,
    • Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained,

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
  • The fat of the hippopotamus.

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    locality

    English

    Noun

    (localities)
  • The fact or quality of having a position in space.
  • * Glanvill
    • It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality .
  • (p) The features or surroundings of a particular place.
  • The situation or position of an object.
  • An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
  • Limitation to a county, district, or place.
    • locality of trial
    (Blackstone)
  • (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

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