Speck vs Reproach - What's the difference?
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(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.
A mild rebuke, or an implied criticism.
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Disgrace or shame.
To criticize or rebuke someone.
* Bible, 1 Peter iv. 14
* Milton
* Dryden
To disgrace, or bring shame upon someone.
* Shakespeare
Speck is a related term of reproach.
As nouns the difference between speck and reproach
is that speck is bacon while reproach is a mild rebuke, or an implied criticism.As a verb reproach is
to criticize or rebuke someone.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,
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)Anagrams
*reproach
English
Noun
(reproaches)citation, passage=My father made no reproach in his letters and only took notice of my science by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before.}}
Verb
- if ye be reproached for the name of Christ
- That this newcomer, Shame, / There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
- Mezentius with his ardour warmed / His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight, / Repelled the victors.
- I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, / For that he knew you, might reproach your life.
