Spot
Spot or SPOT may refer to:
 |
Look up spot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Places
- Spot, North Carolina, a community in the United States
- The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia
- South Pole Traverse, sometimes called the South Pole Overland Traverse
People
- SPOT (producer), the house producer and engineer for the label SST Records
- Spot (rapper/producer)
- Jerry Chamberlain (known as "Spot"), the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
- William Spot Collins (1922-1996), American football player and coach, nicknamed "Spot"
- Scott Draves (known as "Spot"), digital artist and VJ
- Moondog Spot, a ring name for professional wrestler Larry Booker
Advertising
- Radio spot, an over-the-air advertisement
- TV spot, a televised advertisement
- Underwriting spot, an announcement made on public broadcasting outlets, especially in the United States, in exchange for funding
Animals
- Spot, a dog that remained faithful after his master's death, described in the List of individual dogs
- Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Spot, a character in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur
- Spot (chicken), in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
- Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain
- Spot (franchise), the titular puppy in a series of children's books and animated television shows created by Eric Hill
- Spot (Star Trek), a pet cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Spot, a pet dog in the Dick and Jane textbook series
- Spot, a cat in the cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey
- Spot, a pet dog from the William Joyce series Rolie Polie Olie
- Spot, a pet amoeba in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants season 11
- Spot, a deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall
- Spot, a pet dragon in the TV series The Munsters
- Spot, Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series
- Spot, a dog in the Isle of Dogs movie
Music
- Spot (album), by the synthpop band And One
- Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark
- "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly" or SPOTS, a name the Sex Pistols toured under in the United Kingdom
Biology and healthcare
- Spot (fish), a fish (Leiostomus xanthurus)
- SpoT, a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp
- Spot, any of several typically spot-forming fungal or bacterial leaf diseases on plants, caused, for example, by Diplocarpon variants (black spot on roses)
- Cherry angioma, called Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless)
- Metrorrhagia or spotting, vaginal bleeding not synchronized with a menstrual period
- Pimple or spot, a skin blemish
Brands and enterprises
- Cool Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks
- Spot Bicycles, a brand made by Shinola
- SPoT Coffee, a coffee chain
- Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), Swedish media company
Finance
- Spot, American slang for a bill of currency, e.g., a "Ten spot" is $10
- Spot, old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars
- Spot date, a financial term
- Spot market, a financial market in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery
- Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today
Technology
- SPOT (satellite), Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre, Earth-observing satellite family
- Single Point of Truth or SPOT, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering
- Smart Personal Objects Technology or SPOT, a Microsoft initiative
- SPOT Satellite Messenger
- Spotlight, called spot for short
- Spot, a four-legged canine-inspired robot made by Boston Dynamics
- Spot, a 3D test model of a cow
Other meanings
- Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves
- SPOT (TSA program), or "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques", an airport security technique
- Spot, American slang for a music venue or club
- Spots (cannabis), a method of smoking cannabis, often called hotknifing in the United States
- USS Spot, an American submarine launched in 1944 and sold to Chile and renamed in 1962
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.