specs

/spɛks/

US pronunciation

American sound/spɛks/

specs

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> specs

Myanmar meaning

မျက်မှန်။

Full entry

specs /speks/ n [pl] (infml )

= GLASSES: has anyone seen my specs?

More examples

‘You have now turned 40, and even reading this article will probably require that you wear your specs.’
‘He wears no shoes, has designer specs, and when he speaks it's a shock to hear the accent of the west coast of America.’
‘Put on a pair of specs that put everything out of focus.’
‘I've tried letting the mirror steam up, or leaving off my specs, to shave.’
‘A slip of a girl in studious tortoiseshell specs, she doesn't strike one as an obvious sadist.’
‘I am using the specs but when I close the left eye, I still cannot see clearly with the right.’
‘The room was almost completely dark, and the criminal hadn't worn his infrared specs.’
‘It was difficult not to imagine that at any moment the famous grin, specs and laugh would emerge from a corner where he had been holding court.’
‘The specs gave her that cool, sophisticated look many girls strive for.’
‘He gestures with his thumb towards the biker with the specs.’
‘If they stay with the specs they may not like them but they come to terms with this addition to the facial furniture.’
‘As if reading her mind, the young woman opened an eye and peered over her sky-colored specs.’
‘Then a tall middle-aged man with short blonde hair and ice blue eyes hidden behind a pair of specs came in.’
‘Sick of being miserable, she signs up for computer courses downtown, loses the specs and gets a whole new wardrobe.’
‘Of course, many patients lost or broke their new specs, leaving them worse off than before.’
‘Perhaps it's better to leave the memories untouched, keep wearing the rose-tinted specs.’
‘Well, Kim had a pair of very groovy blue specs on.’
‘And so the splenetic young rebel became a middle-aged man with studious specs and a shock of silver hair.’
‘But since this event is the moon's doing, we are all going to have to stand outside with plastic specs on looking at it.’
‘So why don't you root out those unwanted specs and let some less fortunate benefit from them.’

Synonyms

spectacles, glasses, goggles, eyeglasses, action, advance, adventure, advice, advisement, ante, asset, assignment, attempt, baby, backing, bail, bet, bifocals, blinkers, blueprint, briefing, chance, cheaters, condition, contact lenses, contacts, contribution, dare, deal, designation, detail, directive, endeavor, endowment, enterprise, essay, expenditure, expense, experiment, exploit, feat, finance, financing, flier, fling, flutter, four eyes, frames, gamble, gambling, game, grant, guidance, guidelines, hazard, header, hedge, hunch, hustle, indication, inside, instructions, interests, investing, investment, item, jeopardy, lay, lay a wager, leap, loan, long shot, lorgnette, lottery, lowdown, make book, margin up, money, monocle, notification, outside chance, pair of glasses, parlay, particular, particularization, peril, pet project, piece, pince-nez, plan, play, play the market, pledge, plunge, pour money into, prescription, project, property, proposition, purchase, pursuit, put on, put on the line, put up, qualification, raffle, reading glasses, recommendation, regulation, requirement, right money, rims, risk, risky business, risky venture, sealed order, set, setup, shades, shoot, shoot the works, shot, shot in the dark, smart money, something given, spec, specification, speculate, speculation, speculative enterprise, stab, stake, steer, stick neck out, stipulation, summons, sunglasses, take a chance, take a flier, take a fling, take action, term, test, thing, throw of the dice, tip, toss up, transaction, trial, trifocals, uncertainty, undertaking, venture, vested interests, wager, wildcat, word

Antonyms