Spot

Spot can refer to:

• any small area, like the spots on a deer, the famous spots praised by the surfers, or the area illuminated by a spotlight
• an advertisement (i.e. a "radio spot" or "TV spot" )
• another word for a pimple
• a common name for pets, most typically dogs:
  • Spot Fetcher, George W. Bush's dog.
  • Spot the dog, an animated series of children's books.
  • Not Spot but Socks Bill Clinton's cat.
• a small game fish common in US Atlantic coastal waters, Leiostomus xanthurus.
• in fiction:
  • Spot (Star Trek) -- the pet cat of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • Spot, the pet dragon of The Munsters TV Sitcom.
  • The name of the dog of the 'Dick and Jane' readers, popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
  • Spot, a Spider-Man villain.
• in music:
  • the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies.
  • SPOT, a Danish music festival in Århus.
  • the album by the synthpop band And One.

• short for spot price of commodities.
• In the financial markets, if you are spot trading or trading spot you are buying/selling for immediate delivery rather than for future delivery; for example, see foreign exchange spot trading.

• the Great red spot on Jupiter, a very large and persistent storm.
• SPOT (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre), a series of French, commercial earth observation satellites

• Skatepark of Tampa (SPoT), a world-famous Tampa, Florida skatepark.
• Spot, a pre-planned set of moves in a professional wrestling match.

• the acronym for Smart Personal Objects Technology.

• Spot was a mascot for 7 Up in the 1990s.

• Spotlight