respot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
verb
To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
noun
An operation in which commercial or military vehicles are respotted.
noun
The final welding on a manufactured item.
Example Sentences
- "Should a pin fall in removing the dead wood it must be respotted, and pins knocked over by pin or pins rebounding from any other alley must be respotted."
- "The pins are respotted and the player bowls again."
- "This method insures that the stopping of cars will not gradually fall out of tolerance with a consequent loss of time to respot."
- "Cars with individual loading hatches have to be respotted several times, depending on length, and have their loading spout relocated."
- "Sanding should be performed in conjunction with fueling to avoid respotting locomotives."
- "The Sara frantically respotted fighters for launch, even while Fletcher and Kinkaid warily tracked the suspected enemy group circling to the southwest."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English spot English respot From re- + spot.