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Stipple Common

Stipple has 6 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.

Verb
1

engrave by means of dots and flicks

2

make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink

3

apply (paint) in small dots or strokes

4

produce a mottled effect

"The sunlight stippled the trees"

5

To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.

See Also
contone stipplest stippling shading stippled stipples mattoir dot
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
engrave paint mottle
Rhyming Words
ple caple tiple ample duple tuple diple apple maple kipple people ripple temple marple hopple meeple semple popple topple sipple
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