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How to pronounce stipple in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms speckle
Type of cloud, mottle, dapple


The sunlight stippled the trees.
Type Words
Type of paint
Derivation stippler
Type Words
Type of etch, engrave
Type Words
Type of paint
Derivation stippler

Examples of stipple

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Stipple offers free tools to easily label the content of pictures online.
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Stipple allows publishers to label and share people, places, and things in their images.
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The final group of prints are almost entirely in stipple, except for the main outlines.
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It is this group that he is most famous for, and that also introduce his stipple technique.
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It is fascinating to learn that he used near-black and black-centered flowers as a stipple effect.
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He uses an old-fashioned stipple-dot effect, similar to illustrations in the Wall Street Journal.
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Stipple has 9 of these photo agencies currently signed up.
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His caricatures are almost all in etching, some also with aquatint, and a few using stipple technique.
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From a distance these plants can resemble the work of an impressionistic artist or a stipple-paint home decorating job.
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More examples
  • Engrave by means of dots and flicks
  • Make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
  • Apply (paint) in small dots or strokes
  • Produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"
  • (stippled) dotted: having a pattern of dots
  • Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists.
  • The gingiva often possess a textured surface that is referred to as being stippled (engraved points). Stippling only presents on the attached gingiva bound to underlying alveolar bone, not the freely moveable alveolar mucosa...
  • The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used; to use small dots to give the appearance of shading
  • (Stippled) A term used to describe a surface that is dimpled or covered with small indentations or bumps.