Stipple
['stɪp(ə)l] or ['stɪpl]
Definition
(verb.) produce a mottled effect; 'The sunlight stippled the trees'.
(verb.) apply (paint) in small dots or strokes.
(verb.) make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink.
(verb.) engrave by means of dots and flicks.
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Definition
(v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
(v. t.) To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
(n.) Alt. of Stippling
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Engrave (by dots, instead of lines).
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Definition
v.t. to engrave or form by means of dots or small points as distinguished from line-engraving:—pr.p. stipp′ling; pa.p. stipp′led.—n. a mode of execution in engraving and miniature-painting in which the effect is produced by dots instead of lines: in colour-decoration a gradation or combination of tones or tints serving as a transition between decided colours.—adj. Stipp′led.—ns. Stipp′ler one who stipples: a coarse brush for stippling; Stipp′ling stippled work of any kind.
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Examples
- The dots are of various sizes, ranging from a minute stipple to a solid black, and they present to the eye the same effect as the unbroken tones of a photograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was a gray stubble of beard stippled over Primitivo's jaws, his lip and his neck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The printing on the sensitized copper face through the stippled or half-tone negative is then effected either by daylight or by the electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The whites are opaque, the solid blacks are clear glass, the intermediate tones showing the same values in stipples of various sizes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Benday process, so called, is the use of mechanical appliances for adding lines or stipples to either drawings or plates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So fine are these stipples, however, that the picture is to the eye perfectly reproduced. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To illustrate this, the 150-line screen has 22,500 stipples to the square inch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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