stippling

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
We love these coasters not just because they're an affordable option to add a little pattern and color to your table, nor that the stippling is so artistically rendered across the fabric

View all »
Definitions (2)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

  1. In the fine arts, dotted work of any kind, whether executed with the brush-point, the pencil, or the stipple-graver.
  2. In ophthalmol., an appearance of the retina as if thickly dotted with light and dark points. The general appearance of this eye-ground presents to the examiner's eye a peculiar appearance, as of a very small irregularly figured carpet, somewhat like a mosaic of small light and dark spots; this is called the stippling of the retina. Med. Record, July 11, 1903, p. 49.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • From the stippling, she thinks the perp was less than four feet away Did you have a chance to talk to ballistics From the pattern, they think it might be one of the older models, maybe a Remington, maybe a Winchester, maybe old enough to be one of the discontinued models That might help. —  A Grave Denied
  • If you see leaves turning slightly yellow with a stippling pattern, you may have these invaders. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
  • I like the black-maroon-white stippling of this railing, a railing that looks frozen in mid-step. —  Paula's House of Toast
  • On certain tracks the music seems to have been atomised into thousands of tiny stippling sounds with extreme stereo panning splitting the music into two parallel event sequences. —  Touch News
  • Crime scene photos presented by the prosecution show that this victim's arms were crossed over his chest in an almost funeral manner, but Bollinger stated that stippling from shotgun debris found on the inside of his right arm did not indicate one way or the other if he had been moved postmortem. —  Morning Times Homepage RSS
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 55 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

extricate · divides · detector · iron · sticking

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

ultimatum · pew · deadpool · sad panda · nom nom nom