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bald spot en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An area on the head which, due to hair loss, has little or no hair.
2. An area where a covering layer is absent; for example, a place where there is a break in the forest covering an area, or where snow has melted.
   • He joins Fagre and Erich at the edge of the rock rib where it meets the ice and snow. They uncoil the rope and tie bowlines to clip into their harnesses. The two men look to Fagre for instructions. Dan Fagre just points, unusual for a loquacious man. Ahead, about two hundred yards into the glacier, toward the headwall, is a bald spot. The snow has melted away or been scoured by the wind to reveal a stretch of disturbed ice and crevasses about the size of a football field. 2013, Christopher White, The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers, →ISBN:
   • from the forest, there lay before him, over an enormous extent of space, an even, velvety cover of green, without a single bald spot or washout, only here and there, in the swales, spotted with remnants of melting snow. He was not angered by the sight of a peasant horse and yearling colt, which were trampling his sprouting fields (he ordered a peasant whom he met to drive them off), [...] 1904, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Leo Wiener, The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Anna Karénin, page 244:

Forms

Synonyms

bald patch

Translations (29)

ru лы́сина (area on the head which has little or no hair) · sv kal fläck (area on the head which has little or no hair) · da måne (area on the head which has little or no hair) · sv måne (area on the head which has little or no hair) · ko 볼드스팟 (area on the head which has little or no hair) · ru о́зеро (area on the head which has little or no hair) · mk ќелавица (area on the head which has little or no hair) · pt área calva (area on the head which has little or no hair) · nb måne (area on the head which has little or no hair) · fi pälvi (area on the head which has little or no hair) · gl calva (area on the head which has little or no hair) · es calva (area on the head which has little or no hair) · ru пле́шь (area on the head which has little or no hair) · mi tiwha (area on the head which has little or no hair) · nl kale plek (area on the head which has little or no hair) · fi kalju (area on the head which has little or no hair) · ru пропле́шина (area on the head which has little or no hair) · uk голомо́зина (area on the head which has little or no hair) · pl łysina (area on the head which has little or no hair) · cmn 秃了一块 (area on the head which has little or no hair) · fi kalju kohta (area on the head which has little or no hair) · fr calvitie (area on the head which has little or no hair) · cmn 地中海 (area on the head which has little or no hair) · pt careca (area on the head which has little or no hair) · ru пле́шина (area on the head which has little or no hair) · cmn 禿斑 /秃斑 (area on the head which has little or no hair) · de Kahlstelle (area on the head which has little or no hair) · nn måne (area on the head which has little or no hair) · uk ли́сина (area on the head which has little or no hair)