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Meanings of stipple in English

Produce a mottled effect.

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        Examples for "speckle"
        Examples for "speckle"
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        We validate our method using synthetic speckle images and real ultrasonic images.
        Pubmed
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        We evaluated LV function in patients with acute perimyocarditis with speckle tracking.
        Pubmed
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        A CCD camera captured the speckle pattern from a laser-illuminated tissue phantom.
        Pubmed
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        This new image illustrates the similarity between the speckle patterns around each point.
        Pubmed
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        Steam them until they are beginning to change colour and speckle with red.
        The Guardian
        Usage of stipple in English
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        Blood soaked the walls and had sprayed up to stipple the ceiling.
        Caliban's War
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        She wanted to know the difference between a mezzotint and a stipple print.
        One Man in His Time
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        The wet clay ricocheted around the room, showering everyone with a gooey stipple.
        The Irish Times
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        The lush stipple of explosions melded into a single radiative discharge of stellar intensity.
        The Naked God
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        The stripes carmine, shaded with the same; indigo in the darkest parts, or stipple with it.
        Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
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        Natalie was so strong, so stipple, that he handled her roughly without fear of hurting her.
        Through stained glass / A Novel
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        The glassy stipple of a partial arrowhead, a jar of pennies, green and scuzzy as sunken treasure.
        The Girls
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        During the following decades numerous technical variations were developed, the most popular being the pastel manner, the stipple, and the aquatint.
        John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
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        Even something as simple as a pinhole camera gets hi-res fast if you stipple a bunch of them across thirty million square kilometers.
        Year's best sf 15
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        Manley Hopkins must, I think, have had in mind the gillaroo when he wrote: "Rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim."
        The Irish Times
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        A dry duster is now used to stipple with, which, if properly done, will distribute the color evenly; it is now ready for combing.
        Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 / A ...
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        She believes Fletcher has given her a death sentence after workers dry-scraped six stipple ceilings containing asbestos that wasn't even in the scope of work.
        Radio NZ
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        He catalogued its volutes, its stipples, the frisks and curlings of its pattern.
        There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
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        Already, the wind had changed direction, stippling the surface of the river with grey goose-pimples.
        The water room
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        There is this substance called Stipple and you just put it around your eyes and certain areas.
        Reuters
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        Jack swayed just a little, sweat beading in the hollow of his neck and stippling the collar of his shirt.
        Street magic
        Stipple through the time