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spotter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spotter has 4 senses
- spotter(n = noun.person) Array - a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots; Array is a kind of employee
- spotter(n = noun.person) Array - a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers); Array is a kind of employee
- spotter(n = noun.person) lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, watch - a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event; Array is a kind of security guard, watcher, watchman
- spotter(n = noun.person) discoverer, finder - someone who is the first to observe something; Array is a kind of beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient
Derived form verb spot6
Derived form verb spot1
has particulars: co-discoverer
Derived form verb spot1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spotter, n.
1 (often in comb.) a person who spots people or things (train-spotter).
2 an aviator or aircraft employed in locating enemy positions etc.
1 (often in comb.) a person who spots people or things (train-spotter).
2 an aviator or aircraft employed in locating enemy positions etc.
THESAURUS
spotter
Argus, CIA man, Charley, airplane spotter, beagle, cloak-and-dagger operative, counterintelligence agent, counterspy, dick, double agent, espionage agent, eye, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, flatfoot, forward observer, gumshoe, gumshoe man, hawkshaw, inside man, intelligence agent, lookout, lookout man, military-intelligence man, naval-intelligence man, night watchman, operative, patrol, patroller, patrolman, picket, private eye, reconnoiterer, roundsman, scout, secret agent, sentinel, sentry, skip tracer, sleuthhound, spy, spy-catcher, tec, undercover man, vedette, watch, watcher, watchkeeper, watchman
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