on-the-spot
Use On-the-spot in a sentence
ðəˌspɒt, ˈɔn- adjective
done or occurring at the time or place in question: an on-the-spot recording.
Origin:
1885–90
1885–90
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| on-the-spot | |
adjective | |
| at the scene of action; "an on-the-spot reporter"; "on-the-spot inspections"; "an on-the scene newscast" |
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On-the-spot
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
He is also an on-the-spot advisor and trouble-shooter.
Models are instead used to examine the operational nature of a system, not provide on-the-spot predictions of numerical values.
As with all mosaic shirts, this also serves as a great on-the-spot geek quiz.
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