Stipple Definition

stĭpəl
stippled, stipples, stippling
verb
stippled, stippling
To paint, draw, engrave, or apply in small points or dots rather than in lines or solid areas.
Webster's New World
To apply (paint, for example) in dots or short strokes.
American Heritage
To cover or mark with dots or quick dabs; fleck.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
stipples
The art or method of painting, drawing, or engraving in dots.
Webster's New World
The effect produced by this, or an effect, as in nature, resembling it.
Webster's New World
Stippled work.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

Origin of Stipple

  • Dutch stippelen frequentative of stippen to speckle from stip dot from Middle Dutch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stipple Sentence Examples

  • After application, you can then stipple the paint, which will even out the textures.

  • Boys will don skirts and stuff bras with Kleenex, girls will stipple pretend-whiskers and wear ridiculous baseball caps, and cavort and swagger down the halls.

  • Most of the villages in the area have strong connections to the days of lead and old mine chimneys still stipple the landscape.

  • The stipple specified by dashes resource can be turned on or off by activating this command.

  • A stipple engraving by William Dickinson duly circulated in very large numbers.

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ELEPLE

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