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spottingnoun the act or process of sighting or learning the existence of something for the first timethe spotting of a new bird is always a thrill for an avid bird-watcher detection, discovery, finding, unearthing awareness, espial, noticedisclosure, exposure, revelation, uncovering, unveilingcreation, inventionexplorationrediscovery disappearance, lossconcealment, hiding spottingverbpresent participle of spotto mark with small spots especially unevenlyto give the effect of sunlight on water, the artist spotted the lake in his painting with flecks of gold paint blotching, dappling, dotting, flecking, freckling, marbling, mottling, peppering, shooting, specking, speckling, splotching, sprinkling, stippling blotting, dyeing, stainingbanding, barring, streaking, stripinginterspersing, setting, studdingbespattering, spattering to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyesI spotted both of them as they tried to sneak out the back door beholding, catching, descrying, discerning, distinguishing, espying, eyeing(or eying), looking (at), noticing, noting, observing, perceiving, regarding, remarking, seeing, sighting, spying, viewing, witnessing identifying, making out, picking out, picking upattending (to), considering, heeding, marking, mindingstudying, watchingexamining, inspecting, scanning, scrutinizing, surveyingglancing (at), glimpsing, peering (at) getting a load of(slang), laying eyes on, setting eyes on disregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overpassing, passing overmissing, overlooking to cover by or as if by scattering something over or onthe TV networks had spotted reporters all over the state for the election bestrewing, dotting, peppering, scattering, sowing, spraying, sprinkling, strewing blanketing, drizzling, dustingstuddingdappling, flecking, speckling, stipplingbespattering, spattering |