English-French translations for speck

• grain
  Nous devrions extraire le tronc d'arbre que nous avons dans l'œil avant de nous inquiéter du grain de poussière dans l'œil de la Hongrie. We should cantilever the great tree trunk out of our own eye, before we start worrying about the speck in that of Hungary.
• graine
• pépin
• point
  Le resserrement du crédit touche et blesse chacun d'entre nous, mais j'aperçois un tout petit point de lumière au bout du tunnel. The credit crunch is hitting and hurting all of us, but I see a speck of light at the end of the tunnel.

Definition of speck

• A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc
• A very small thing; a particle; a whit
• A small etheostomoid fish, , common in the eastern United States
• To mark with specks; to speckle
• Fat; lard; fat meat
• The blubber of whales or other marine mammals

Examples

• a tiny speck of soot
• He has not a speck of money
• paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

Related words

• specklebelly
• speckled
• speckle
• speckling
• speck of dust
• Speckled Chachalaca
• Speckled Teal
• Speckled Rail
• Speckled Pigeon