speck

Noun

• a slight but appreciable amount
  • this dish could use a touch of garlic
    

• (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

• a very small spot
  • the plane was just a speck in the sky
    

Verb

• produce specks in or on
  • speck the cloth
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  touch , hint , tinge , mite , pinch , jot , soupcon , atom , molecule , particle , corpuscle , mote , pinpoint