to stipple
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7.9
- verb
- /ˈstɪpəl/
- Specialized
:
puntear
- To create a textured effect, she carefully stippled small dots of paint onto the canvas.
- stippled areas
Like I dig this and you can just stipple the brush all over your face.
- Like I dig this and you can just stipple the brush all over your face.
- You're bringing the dark down, just stipple it up.
- So this is the side where we just stippled with the foundation.
- I'm just going to stipple, which just means pat all over the place.
Examples
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Her clothes were stippled with wood dust, more grayish-brown than black.
Fiction book (1997) -
I have found that stippling the product on works the best.
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And we're just going to stipple that on.
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So I just stipple it on and it seems to go on Florida State.
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And then sometimes I like to stipple all over to get the texture as well.
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Like I dig this and you can just stipple the brush all over your face.
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And again, I take that Morphe brush and stipple it onto my face.
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And then I'm just going to basically stipple this over the top part of my cheekbone.
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I'm just taking a tiny bit of that foundation on the brush and stippling it all in.
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The back and shoulders of his coat are scattered with stippled dots of confetti.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
To put a small round mark on something
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3.9
To cover something with many small spots of a different color
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5.6
To mark something with small spots
Antonyms
How Dotted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stipple comes from a Dutch word stip meaning 'dot' or 'spot'. Imagine an artist making many tiny dots to build a picture or pattern; that's why to stipple is to create an image or surface by using lots of small dots or short strokes.