STIPPLING

Definition: STIPPLING

STIPPLING

Noun

1. A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.

2. A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Stipple

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STIPPLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

Health

Medicine

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Crosswords: STIPPLING

Books

• Trapunto and Stippling (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Plasmodium vivax ring form trophozoite in erythrocyte that shows basophilic stippling. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

Blood smear showing Babesia rings in erythrocytes. Some basophilic stippling is present. Protozoon, parasite. Credit: CDC.

Here we see two infected red blood cells, (RBC), during erythrocytic schizogony. One erythrocyte containing four rings (right), and another RBC (trophozoite) also infected with maturing P. vivax, and revealing basophilic stippling (left). Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Chinese 

点刻 (stippled). (various references)

Danish

stipling (dipping), granulering (graded size, graininess, granulate, granulation, pelletizing, shotting), duppet (mottled, stippled), duppe (dabbing, to dab, to stipple), diamantgravering med prikker, dekoreret med svamp. (various references)

Dutch

stippelen (punctuate), stipgraveren, tint (complexion, dye, hue), tamponneren (to dab, to stipple), grisé, gesponsd. (various references)

Finnish

täplitys, pisteitys, pisteittäminen, pilkutus. (various references)

French

pointillage. (various references)

German

tüpfelnd (dotting). (various references)

Greek 

σκάλισμα με ποντάρισμα, σκίαση (overshadowing, shading), μπατιτούρα, πατιτούρα, διάστιξη, διακόσμηση με σφουγγάρι. (various references)

Hungarian

pontozás (dotting, evaluation by points, judging by points, pointing, punctuation, score, scoring, stipple engraving). (various references)

Italian

punteggiatura (punctuation), picchettatura, incisione a punto battuto, incisione a punteggio, decorato alla spugna, battitura (beating, breaking, driving, hammering, hulling, scutching, thrashing, threshing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

点�"� (the strokes of a character). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

て�"が (classic, elegance, grace, refined, shop policy, the Milky Way). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipplingstay

Portuguese

pontilhagem, pontilhado, grisé, gravação por percussão, depuração por esponja. (various references)

Russian 

изображать пунктиром.....изображение пунктиром/. (various references)

Spanish

sombreado (shading, shadow, shadowy, shady, umbrageous), punteado (dotted, Dotty, stipple, twang), graneteado, grabado por percusión, decorar con esponja, batido (beat, beaten, hit, shake, slap, slat, slug, sock, strike, whipped). (various references)

Swedish

punktgravyr. (various references)

Misspellings

"STIPPLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Shimpling, steepling, stipling, stipplings. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lippings, slipping, tippling.

-2 letters: lipping, lisping, listing, pilings, pipings, silting, sipping, sliping, spiling, spiting, tilings, tipping.

-3 letters: glints, instil, isling, lipins, piling, piping, pipits, pistil, siping, siting, splint, tiling.

-4 letters: gilts, glint, intis, lings, lints, lipin, piing, pilis, pings, pints, pipit, sigil, sling, slipt, spilt, split, sting, tings, tipis.

-5 letters: gilt, gins, gips, gist, gits.

+3 letters: supplicating.

+5 letters: fieldstripping.