Stipple

Definition: Stipple

Stipple

Verb

1. Engrave by means of dots and flicks.

2. Make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink.

3. Apply in small touches, of paint.

4. Produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Food & Agriculture

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

Synonym: Stipple

Engraving

Verb: engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph; Noun: print.

Noun: engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph.

Painting

Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent).

Crosswords: Stipple

Books

• Stipple Wink and Gusset (reference)

• Decorating With Paint: How to Create Decorative Surfaces With Trompe L'Oeil, Stencil, Spatter, Marble, Lacquer, Stipple and Sponge Techniques (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Stipple engraving by D. Edwin, 1817. Dale, who served in the Continental Navy and the United States Navy, commanded a squadron in the Mediterranean during 1801-1802. Credit: NAVY.

Nineteenth Century stipple engraving, depicting Dale later in life. During his service in the Continental and United States Navies, he reached the rank of Captain and, in 1801-1802, commanded the U.S. squadron in the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: NAVY.

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Albanian

punim me pika, pikëzim. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقط (dapple, dot, fleck, mottle, pit, point, punctuate, speck, speckle, sprinkle, trickle), ‏نقش بالنقط, ‏رقط (fleck), ‏رسم بالنقط. (various references)

Bulgarian 

точица (tittle), гравиране с пунктир, гравирам с пунктир. (various references)

Chinese 

点刻法. (various references)

Czech

teèkovat. (various references)

Danish

plet (blot, spot), papel (papule). (various references)

Dutch

tamponneren (stippling, to dab, to stipple). (various references)

Finnish

voimakas mattasyövytys (obscure stipple embossed), töpätä (pat out, tap-out, to dab, to stipple). (various references)

French

pointiller. (various references)

German

tüpfeln (dapple, Dot, spot, to stipple). (various references)

Greek 

σχεδιάζω με κουκίδεσ, ζωγραφίζω με στιγμέσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל� מר (diversify, mottle, spot, variegate). (various references)

Hungarian

pontozva rajzol, pontozófestés. (various references)

Italian

punteggiare (Dot, point, punctuate, spot). (various references)

Manx

mynvreckey. (various references)

Pig Latin

ipplestay

Portuguese

granido. (various references)

Russian 

точечный пунктир, штриховые элементы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slikati tačkama, slikanje tačkama, tačkati (dot), istačkati. (various references)

Spanish

puntear (Dot, fleck, flecker, pick, plonk, pluck, twang). (various references)

Swedish

punktering (flat, puncture), punktera (Dot, punctuate, puncture). (various references)

Turkish

noktalarla yapmak, noktalarla yapılan resim, noktalarla resim yapmak, noktalarla resim yapma. (various references)

Ukrainian

крапковий пунктир, зображувати пунктиром. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuật vẽ bằng chấm bản vẽ bằng chấm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stipple": stippled, stippler, stipplers, stipples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stipple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estopple, stapple, steple, Steppler, stimple, stippen, Stopsley, stripple, stuple. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tipples.

-1 letter: pipets, sippet, stipel, tipple.

-2 letters: islet, istle, pelts, piles, pipes, pipet, piste, plies, slept, slipe, slipt, speil, spelt, spiel, spile, spilt, spite, split, stile, stipe, tiles.

-3 letters: isle, leis, lept, lest, lets, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, list, lite, lits, pelt, peps, pest, pets, pies, pile, pipe, pips, pits, plie, sept, silt, sipe, site.

+1 letter: flippest, lippiest, loppiest, presplit, pulpiest, ripplets, stippled, stippler, stipples, tipplers.

+2 letters: flappiest, floppiest, oppilates, periplast, pieplants, pimpliest, rippliest, slippiest, sloppiest, stipplers, tailpipes.

+3 letters: appositely, epileptics, leptospire, oppositely, palimpsest, palpitates, papillotes, periplasts, pitchpoles, psilophyte, septupling, strippable, suppletion, suppletive, supplicate.

+4 letters: apostleship, leptospiral, leptospires, palimpsests, participles, pentaploids, phlogopites, psilophytes, slipperiest, superpolite, suppletions, supplicated, supplicates.

+5 letters: antiepilepsy, apophyllites, apostleships, appellations, appellatives, appositively, hyperplastic, inappositely, lipoproteins, multipurpose, perplexities, perspectival, pleiotropies, polypeptides, popularities, postimperial, psephologist, slaphappiest, superplastic, tribespeople, whippletrees.