Spot

The common noun or verb spot has many meanings in English.

Otherwise, Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Contents 1 Advertising 2 Fiction 3 Localities 4 Music 5 Biology 6 Other meanings 7 See also

Advertising

• Radio spot
• TV spot
• Underwriting spot

Fiction

• Spot the Dog, a series of children's books adapted for animation
• Spot (chicken), a character in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
• Spot (comics), a Spider-Man guy
• Spot (Star Trek), a pet cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• A character in the cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey
• A pet dragon in the TV series The Munsters
• A pet dog in the Dick and Jane textbook series
• Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series.
• A deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall, who is initially assumed to be a harmless mistyping of "dog".

Localities

• The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia

Music

• Spot (album), by the synthpop band And One
• Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark
• SPOT (producer), the house producer and engineer for the label SST Records
• Spot (rapper/producer)
• Singing Priests of Tagbilaran, a Filipino musical group
• Jerry Chamberlain, the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
• An acronym for "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly", the name the Sex Pistols toured under in the United Kingdom.

Biology

• Spot croaker, a fish (Leiostomus xanthurus)
• SpoT (Biology), a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp
• Spot (disease), several typically spot-forming fungal or bacterial leaf diseases on plants, caused for example by Diplocarpon variants (Black Spot on roses)
• Pimple, a skin blemish
• Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless)
• Metrorrhagia, vaginal bleeding that is not synchronized with a menstrual period.

Other meanings

• Cool Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks
• Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves
• SPOT (satellites), Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre, Earth-observing satellite family
• SPOT Satellite Messenger
• Spot date, a financial term
• Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush
• Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today
• Smart Personal Objects Technology, a Microsoft initiative
• Scott Draves, (known as 'Spot'), digital artist and VJ
• A nickname for a spotlight
• Old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars
• "Screening passengers by observation techniques" (SPOT), an airport security technique
• Spots (cannabis) are a method of smoking cannabis. In the United States this is often called hotknifing.
• Single Point of Truth, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering.
• USS Spot, an American submarine that served during World War II.
• Spot market is a financial market, in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery ("on the spot").

See also

• All pages beginning with "Spot"
• Spotz (disambiguation)

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