| 单词 | stipple |
| 释义 | stipple (once / 28828 pages) v If you stipple something, that means you add tiny dots of color or texture, such as using a special painting tool to stipple a plain wall with dots of a different color to make it look more interesting. The verb stipple came into English from the Dutch word stippelen, meaning "to spot or dot.” Artist stipple paint onto their canvases and from the distance, the dots look like a field of flowers. You can also stipple metal, by poking it with a tool that creates little circular dents — that look like dots — to give it an artistic look. WORD FAMILYstipple: stippled, stipples, stippling USAGE EXAMPLESFaces are no longer seamed, nor are raindrops stippled on the windowpane, cats high-tailed in a turf war, postage stamps vividly illustrative. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) You’ll notice it’s stippled with a dense thicket of small nodules—almost like the rows of pits covering a strawberry’s surface. Time(Jun 01, 2016) "The Holy Grail" with regard to Buchinger to which Jay devotes an entire chapter is a stipple engraving of the performer. Los Angeles Times(Mar 03, 2016) 1v engrave by means of dots and flicks Hyper engrave, etch carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block 2v apply (paint) in small dots or strokes Hyper paint make a painting 3v make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink Hyper paint make a painting 4v produce a mottled effect The sunlight stippled the trees Syn|Hyper speckle cloud, dapple, mottle colour with streaks or blotches of different shades |
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