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How to pronounce speckle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot
Type of marking
Has types facula, fret, macula, macule, mock sun, nebula, parhelion, pinpoint, plaque, solar facula, speck, splash, sundog, sunspot, worn spot
Type Words
Synonyms stipple
Type of dapple, cloud, mottle
Type Words
Synonyms bespeckle
Type of fleck, blot, spot, blob


speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots.

Examples of speckle

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Sculptures speckle the grounds portraying humans in the midst of fantastic feats.
From the london2012.blogs.nytimes.com
By analysing this speckle, it is possible to chart the texture of the surface.
From the economist.com
Speckle also occurs if multiple parts of a coherent wave scatter from different centers.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Bright timber buildings crowd its quaysides and speckle its fields.
From the smh.com.au
By detecting the change in this speckle, it is possible to chart the texture of the surface.
From the economist.com
Ball marks speckle every green except those on 200-yard par-3 holes.
From the charlotteobserver.com
As for Nikolas, he's hoping to speckle the upper Midwest with automated convenience stores.
From the jsonline.com
You keep on catching them because yor Daddy and Momma like them redfish and speckle trouts.
From the denverpost.com
The colors are bright and vibrant, the image stable and speckle-free.
From the nytimes.com
More examples
  • Spot: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
  • Stipple: produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
  • Mark with small spots; "speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots"
  • (speckled) dotted: having a pattern of dots
  • A speckle pattern is a random intensity pattern produced by the mutual interference of a set of wavefronts. ...
  • (Speckles) Pillow Pals were a line of plush toys made by Ty, Inc. during the 1990s. The toys were given their name because they were soft like pillow, and were made with children in mind. ...
  • A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage; The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface; To mark with speckles
  • (SPECKLED) small spotted irregular coloring.
  • Spotted; speckled over with another tincture.