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Related topics: Painting and drawingstip·ple /ˈstɪpəl/ verb [transitive] AVPPAINTto draw or paint a picture or pattern using short strokes or spots instead of lines 点画，点彩画出 —stippled adjective —stippling noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusstipple• The result is an earthy look, which can be colour-rubbed, antiqued, stippled, crackle glazed or dragged.• His face smashed a pane low down in the french window and went through, stippling Goldman's shoes with blood.• The sphere was finely stippled, pocked here and there with hatches or spiked with communication towers.• We made the non-slip surfaces by stippling the tops with a bass broom - a fairly new one works best.• The walls were stippled with some kind of wartime stucco that had the texture of dried oatmeal.• The dunes were stippled with the white heads and sore-burnt faces of the children.Origin stipple (1700-1800) Dutch stippelenstip·ple verbChineseSyllable picture or draw or paint to Corpus a |