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stipple

verb

1 stipple

Engrave by means of dots and flicks.

Roget 558: engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph etc. n.; print.   

Roget 556: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, ... show more

2 stipple

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

3 stipple

Apply (paint) in small dots or strokes.

4 stipple

Produce a mottled effect:
— The sunlight stippled the trees.

synonym: speckle.

Roget 440: be variegated etc. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: apply paint, autolithograph, band, bar, be a printmaker, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blotch, brush on paint, burr, calcimine, carve, character, check, checker ... show more.

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