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PRONUNCIATION OF FLYSPECK

flyspeck  [ˈflaɪˌspɛk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLYSPECK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flyspeck is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flyspeck in English.

WHAT DOES FLYSPECK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of flyspeck in the English dictionary

The first definition of flyspeck in the dictionary is the small speck of the excrement of a fly. Other definition of flyspeck is a small spot or speck. Flyspeck is also to mark with flyspecks.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLYSPECK

PRESENT

Present
I flyspeck
you flyspeck
he/she/it flyspecks
we flyspeck
you flyspeck
they flyspeck
Present continuous
I am flyspecking
you are flyspecking
he/she/it is flyspecking
we are flyspecking
you are flyspecking
they are flyspecking
Present perfect
I have flyspecked
you have flyspecked
he/she/it has flyspecked
we have flyspecked
you have flyspecked
they have flyspecked
Present perfect continuous
I have been flyspecking
you have been flyspecking
he/she/it has been flyspecking
we have been flyspecking
you have been flyspecking
they have been flyspecking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I flyspecked
you flyspecked
he/she/it flyspecked
we flyspecked
you flyspecked
they flyspecked
Past continuous
I was flyspecking
you were flyspecking
he/she/it was flyspecking
we were flyspecking
you were flyspecking
they were flyspecking
Past perfect
I had flyspecked
you had flyspecked
he/she/it had flyspecked
we had flyspecked
you had flyspecked
they had flyspecked
Past perfect continuous
I had been flyspecking
you had been flyspecking
he/she/it had been flyspecking
we had been flyspecking
you had been flyspecking
they had been flyspecking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will flyspeck
you will flyspeck
he/she/it will flyspeck
we will flyspeck
you will flyspeck
they will flyspeck
Future continuous
I will be flyspecking
you will be flyspecking
he/she/it will be flyspecking
we will be flyspecking
you will be flyspecking
they will be flyspecking
Future perfect
I will have flyspecked
you will have flyspecked
he/she/it will have flyspecked
we will have flyspecked
you will have flyspecked
they will have flyspecked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been flyspecking
you will have been flyspecking
he/she/it will have been flyspecking
we will have been flyspecking
you will have been flyspecking
they will have been flyspecking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would flyspeck
you would flyspeck
he/she/it would flyspeck
we would flyspeck
you would flyspeck
they would flyspeck
Conditional continuous
I would be flyspecking
you would be flyspecking
he/she/it would be flyspecking
we would be flyspecking
you would be flyspecking
they would be flyspecking
Conditional perfect
I would have flyspeck
you would have flyspeck
he/she/it would have flyspeck
we would have flyspeck
you would have flyspeck
they would have flyspeck
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been flyspecking
you would have been flyspecking
he/she/it would have been flyspecking
we would have been flyspecking
you would have been flyspecking
they would have been flyspecking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you flyspeck
we let´s flyspeck
you flyspeck
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to flyspeck
Past participle
flyspecked
Present Participle
flyspecking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLYSPECK


APEC
ˈeɪpɛk
copeck
ˈkəʊpɛk
henpeck
ˈhɛnˌpɛk
kopeck
ˈkəʊpɛk
kopek
ˈkəʊpɛk
OAPEC
əʊˈeɪpɛk
OPEC
ˈəʊˌpɛk
pec
pɛk
peck
pɛk
pecke
pɛk
Pishpek
pɪʃˈpɛk
ryepeck
ˈraɪˌpɛk
spec
spɛk
speck
spɛk
Tehuantepec
təˈwɑːntəˌpɛk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLYSPECK

flyman
flymen
Flynn
flyoff
flyover
flypaper
flype
flypitch
flypitcher
flyposter
flyposting
flyrodder
Flysch
flyscreen
flystrike
flyte
flytier
flytrap
flyweight
flywheel

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLYSPECK

background check
beck
bottleneck
by the neck
check
credit check
deck
double-check
fleck
get it in the neck
heck
in check
kenspeck
neck
redneck
train wreck
uncheck
V neck
V-neck
wreck

Synonyms and antonyms of flyspeck in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «flyspeck» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLYSPECK

Find out the translation of flyspeck to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flyspeck from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flyspeck» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蝇粪病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

flyspeck
570 millions of speakers

English

flyspeck
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

flyspeck
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

flyspeck
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

flyspeck
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

flyspeck
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

flyspeck
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moucheture
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Flyspeck
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

flyspeck
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

flyspeck
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

점으로 만 찍혀있을 뿐이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Flyspeck
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

flyspeck
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

flyspeck
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लास्पेक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

flyspeck
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flyspeck
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

flyspeck
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

flyspeck
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

flyspeck
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

flyspeck
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

flyspeck
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flyspeck
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flyspeck
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flyspeck

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLYSPECK»

The term «flyspeck» is normally little used and occupies the 129.680 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLYSPECK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flyspeck

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLYSPECK»

Discover the use of flyspeck in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flyspeck and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables: Diagnosis and Management
2.3.3 Disease management Management of sooty blotch and flyspeck truly requires an integrated approach. Perhaps the single most important practice to reducing the damage caused by these diseases, outside of the use of fungicides, is to ...
Naqvi, S.A.M.H. Naqvi, 2004
2
Sooty Blotch and Flyspeck: Evaluation of Remotely Estimated ...
Disease-warning systems are management tools that use information about the pathogen, host and/or environment to advise growers when to efficiently take management actions, such as fungicide sprays.
Nenad Tatalovic, 2009
3
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education in the Field: ...
TABLE 10-1 Chlorine Removal of Sooty Blotch and Flyspeck from Apples with a 5Minute Postharvest Chlorine Dip Chlorine (ppm) Percentage Posttreatment Sooty Blotch Flyspeck 0 100a 100a 100 97a 96a 300 16b 70b 500 6b 56c NOTE:  ...
Board on Agriculture, National Research Council, 1991
4
The Pursuit of Perfect Packing, Second Edition
4.6 The Flyspeck Project In the meantime, the approach of Hales would appear to be "the only game in town." Rather than pine for the old days, might we just try to do a more fully convincing job of Hales' proof, given its importance? This is the ...
Denis Weaire, Tomaso Aste, 2008
5
Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control and Beneficial ...
Hartman (1996b) and Smigell and Hartman (1998a,b) used also their version of the flyspeck and sooty blotch model to time the placement of multilayer fruit bags (used to modify fruit colour for specialty markets) on developing fruit. Gleason et ...
Eric Lichtfouse, 2009
6
The Apple Grower: Guide for the Organic Orchardist, 2nd Edition
Photo by K. D. Hickey, NRAES less sooty blotch and flyspeck, as do early-season apples that are harvested before enough wetting has accumulated. One conventional recommendation is to be very aggressive about summer diseases by ...
Michael Phillips, 2005
7
The Kepler Conjecture: The Hales-Ferguson Proof
Ann. Math. 162, 1065–1185 (2005) Hales, T.C.: Introduction to the Flyspeck project. In: Coquand, T., Lombardi, H., Roy, M.-F. (eds.) Mathematics, Algorithms, Proofs, number 05021 in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2006.
Jeffrey C. Lagarias, 2011
8
Automated Reasoning: Third International Joint Conference, ...
Flyspeck. I: Tame. Graphs. Tobias Nipkow, Gertrud Bauer, and Paula Schultz† Institut f ̈ur Informatik, TU M ̈unchen Abstract. We present a verified enumeration of tame graphs as defined in Hales' proof of the Kepler Conjecture and confirm ...
Ulrich Furbach, Natarajan Shankar, 2006
9
Dense Sphere Packings: A Blueprint for Formal Proofs
Many have worked tirelessly to make the Flyspeck formalization project a reality. I wish to thank Dang Tat Dat, Hoang Le Truong, Nguyen Duc Thinh, Nguyen Duc Tam, Nguyen Tat Thang, Nguyen Quang Truong, Ta Thi Hoai An, Tran Nam ...
Thomas Hales, Thomas Callister Hales, 2012
10
Intelligent Computer Mathematics: 18th Symposium, Calculemus ...
We successfully solved both problems and our tool is able to verify relatively large Flyspeck linear programs in about 5 seconds. The Flyspeck project is carried out in the HOL Light proof assistant [5]. HOL Light is written in the Objective CAML ...
James H. Davenport, William M. Farmer, Florian Rabe, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLYSPECK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flyspeck is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Iron Ore Got You Down? Try Nuclear Waste
As a decade of soaring commodity prices ends, what was a thorny political issue has become a possible savior for flyspeck outback towns such ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Southwest Michigan fruit regional report – July 7, 2015
Growers need to include fungicides in their next cover sprays to control sooty blotch and flyspeck. Growers should reapply fungicides whenever ... «Michigan State University Extension, Jul 15»
3
Josh Freed: The forecast calls for more forecasts of everything
This offers weekly biting forecasts for bug activity in every flyspeck village in Quebec. There's a moderate 1-mosquito warning in the lower ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
4
What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired "To Kill …
... the tiny flyspeck settlements of wooden shotgun shacks and old house trailers and the white-planked churches; past the roadside clusters of foot-high ant hills, ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
5
Contagion from Greek exit likely to be limited
Greece is a relative flyspeck in the global economy. It represents about 2% of Europe's economy, or roughly the gross domestic product of ... «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
6
The Short List: Greece still isn't paying; NY prison officials put on …
USA TODAY's Paul Davidson offers this perspective: Greece is a relative flyspeck in the global economy. It represents about 2% of Europe's ... «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
7
Southwest Michigan fruit regional report – June 30, 2015
Growers need to include fungicides to control sooty blotch and flyspeck and calcium for bitter pit in their cover sprays. We have received 200 to ... «Michigan State University Extension, Jun 15»
8
Gross Gets Personal: 'I Just Wanted To Run Money And Be Famous'
Nowadays, Gross's flyspeck empire pales next to the $1.6 trillion Pimco. He manages $1.5 billion—less than 1 percent of what he used to—and ... «Financial Advisor Magazine, Jun 15»
9
The Religion of Peace Spreads Its Good News
All of this is a flyspeck, of course, which shouldn't detract from the big news about gay marriage. The problem for us, however, is what to call it. «American Spectator, Jun 15»
10
Annie Barrows takes readers to Depression-era West Virginia in …
... I find most insulting is your assumption that the flyspeck of charm expended in your letter would be adequate to achieve that end," she writes. «Knoxville News Sentinel, Jun 15»

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