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MACULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of spotting or staining something
Synonyms:
maculation; spotting; staining
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("maculation" is a kind of...):
dirtying; soiling; soilure (the act of soiling something)
Derivation:
maculate (spot, stain, or pollute)
maculate (make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small contrasting part of something
Example:
a fleck of red
Synonyms:
dapple; fleck; maculation; patch; speckle; spot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("maculation" is a kind of...):
marking (a pattern of marks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maculation"):
pinpoint; speck (a very small spot)
nebula ((pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea)
splash (a patch of bright color)
fret; worn spot (a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion)
plaque ((pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body)
macula; macule (a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases)
mock sun; parhelion; sundog (a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals)
macula; sunspot (a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field)
facula; solar facula (a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots)
facula (a bright spot on a planet)
