Spot vs. See — What's the Difference?

A particular place or point

Discern or deduce after reflection or from information; understand

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it

Perceive with the eyes; discern visually

A small amount of something

Experience or witness (an event or situation)

Denoting a system of trading in which commodities or currencies are delivered and paid for immediately after a sale

Meet (someone one knows) socially or by chance

Short for spotlight

Escort or conduct (someone) to a specified place

A board for working plaster before application.

Ensure

A banknote of a specified value

(in poker or brag) equal the bet of (an opponent) and require them to reveal their cards in order to determine who has won the hand.

See, notice, or recognize (someone or something) that is difficult to detect or that one is searching for

The place in which a cathedral church stands, identified as the seat of authority of a bishop or archbishop.

Mark or become marked with spots

To perceive with the eye

Rain slightly

To detect by means analogous to use of the eye

Place (a ball) on its designated starting point on a billiard table.

To attend or view as a spectator

Give or lend (money) to (someone)

To refer to or look at

A mark on a surface differing sharply in color from its surroundings.

To become aware of or apprehend

A blemish, mark, or pimple on the skin.

To find out or ascertain, often by moving

A stain or blot.

To take note of; recognize

A mark or pip on a playing card; a spade, club, diamond, or heart.

To consider to be; regard

A playing card with a specified number of such marks on it indicating its value.

To have a mental image of; visualize

(Informal) A piece of paper money worth a specified number of dollars

To foresee or imagine

A small area

To know through firsthand experience; undergo or experience

A location or position

To be characterized by; be the time for

A point of interest

To be subjected to; undergo

A position or an item in an ordered arrangement

To visit, meet, or be in the company of

(Football) The position of the ball for the line of scrimmage as determined by a referee after a play.

To share the companionship of as a romantic partner

(Informal) A situation, especially a troublesome one.

To visit for consultation

A flaw in one's reputation or character

To admit or receive, as for consultation or a social visit

A short presentation or commercial on television or radio between major programs

To escort; attend

(Informal) A spotlight.

To make sure; take care

Pl. spot or spots A small croaker (Leiostomus xanthurus) of North American Atlantic waters, having a dark mark above each pectoral fin and valued as a food and game fish.

To meet (a bet) in card games.

Chiefly British A small amount; a bit

To meet the bet of (another player).

To soil with spots

To have the power to perceive with the eyes

To decorate with spots; dot.

To have the ability to detect or record visual information

To bring disgrace to; besmirch

To understand; comprehend

To place in a particular location; situate precisely

To consider

(Football) To position (the ball) determining the line of scrimmage after a play has been completed.

To go and look

To detect or discern, especially visually; spy

To ascertain; find out

To remove spots from, as in a laundry.

To have foresight

(Sports) To yield a favorable scoring margin to

The official seat, center of authority, jurisdiction, or office of a bishop.

(Sports) To act as a spotter for (a gymnast, for example).

(Obsolete) A cathedra.

(Informal) To lend

(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.

To become marked with spots

To witness or observe by personal experience.

To cause a discoloration or make a stain.

To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.

To locate targets from the air during combat or training missions.

To form a mental picture of.

Made, paid, or delivered immediately

(figuratively) To understand.

Of, relating to, or being a market in which payment or delivery is immediate

To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.

Involving random or selective instances or actions

(transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.

Presented between major radio or television programs

(used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.

A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.

(social) To meet, to visit.

A stain or disfiguring mark.

To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.

A pimple, papule or pustule.

To date frequently.

A small, unspecified amount or quantity.

To visit for a medical appointment.

A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.

(transitive; ergative) To be the setting or time of.

A location or area.

(by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

A parking space.

(transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.

(sports) An official determination of placement.

To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

A bright lamp; a spotlight.

To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).

A brief advertisement or program segment on television.

(used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.

A difficult situation.

To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.

One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.

To include as one of something's experiences.

(soccer) Penalty spot.

Introducing an explanation

The act of spotting or noticing something.

A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.

A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.

The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric

A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

The southern redfish, or novern=1 (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.

The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York.

An autosoliton.

To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.

(finance) A decimal point; point.

To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.

Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.

To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentively; to look after.

Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.

To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.

(transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.

To fall in with; to meet or associate with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.

(finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.

To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.

(ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).

In poker and similar games at cards, to meet (a bet), or to equal the bet of (a player), by staking the same sum.

To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.

To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.

To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.

Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; - often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.

To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.

To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; - generally with to; as, to see to the house.

(dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.

The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located

To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.

Perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight;

To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.

Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally;

To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.

Perceive or be contemporaneous with;

To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.

Deem to be;

Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.

Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally;

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

See or watch;

A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.

Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort;

A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.

Come together;

A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.

Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;

A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.

Go to see for professional or business reasons;

A sciænoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.

Go to see for a social visit;

Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.

Visit a place, as for entertainment;

To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper.

Take charge of or deal with;

To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.

Receive as a specified guest;

To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.

Date regularly; have a steady relationship with;

To become stained with spots.

See and understand, have a good eye;

Lit., being on the spot, or place;

Deliberate or decide;

A point located with respect to surface features of some region;

Observe as if with an eye;

A short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising

Observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect;

A blemish made by dirt;

Go or live through;

A small contrasting part of something;

Accompany or escort;

A section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance;

Match or meet;

An outstanding characteristic;

Make sense of; assign a meaning to;

A business establishment for entertainment;

Compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text)

A job in an organization;

A slight attack of illness;

A small quantity;

A mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)

A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer

A playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value;

An act that brings discredit to the person who does it;

Catch sight of

Mar or impair with a flaw;

Make a spot or mark onto;

Become spotted;

Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition;