Dapple - English meaning

verb

Mark or cover with a large number of small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

The designer whose trademark is to bespeckle his dresses with diamonds

verb

Cover with blotches.

Usage examples:

Her face was blotched and swollen with crying

noun

A large irregular patch or unsightly mark on the skin or another surface.

Usage examples:

Red blotches on her face

adjective

Covered with blotches; patchy.

Usage examples:

Discoloration or blotchy skin on the legs

adjective

If someone's skin is blotchy, it is covered in marks, usually temporary ones, that are not regular in shape

Usage examples:

He'd been crying and his face was all blotchy., she has wispy red hair and blotchy skin.

noun

A small round mark or spot.

Usage examples:

A symbol depicted in coloured dots

verb

Mark with a small spot or spots.

Usage examples:

Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt

noun

A dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband.

adjective

Marked with or in the form of dots.

Usage examples:

A dotted background

verb

Mark with a small spot or spots.

Usage examples:

Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt

Past simple and past participle of dot

noun

A very small patch of colour or light.

Usage examples:

His blue eyes had grey flecks in them

verb

Mark or dot with small patches of colour or particles of something.

Usage examples:

The minarets are flecked with gold leaf

noun

A small mark, esp. of a different color

Usage examples:

I got a few flecks of paint on the window when i was painting the frames., her hair is flecked with…

verb

Mark or dot with small patches of colour or particles of something.

Usage examples:

The minarets are flecked with gold leaf

noun

A very small patch of colour or light.

Usage examples:

His blue eyes had grey flecks in them

adjective

Having small marks or spots

Usage examples:

Flecked with it's a dark grey material but it's flecked with white.

adjective

Covered with freckles.

Usage examples:

A freckled face

verb

Cover or become covered with freckles.

Usage examples:

Skin which freckles easily

adjective

Having small, pale brown spots on the skin, usually on the face

Usage examples:

A freckled complexion, he’s a red-haired, freckled 34-year-old., i'm really freckly.

noun

A hard crystalline metamorphic form of limestone, typically white with coloured mottlings or streaks, which may be polished and is used in sculpture and architecture.

Usage examples:

The spotless white marble of the taj mahal

verb

Stain or streak (something) so that it looks like marble.

Usage examples:

The stone walls were marbled with moss and lichen

noun

A type of hard stone, often with a pattern of irregular lines going through it, that is used as a building material and in statues

Usage examples:

Polished marble floors

adjective

(especially of paper) having a streaked and patterned appearance like that of variegated marble.

Usage examples:

Attractively marbled cloth or paper

verb

Stain or streak (something) so that it looks like marble.

Usage examples:

The stone walls were marbled with moss and lichen

adjective

Decorated with a delicate pattern consisting of lines and areas of colour

Usage examples:

The church has an ornate black and white marbled interior., the plant has green leaves marbled with…

noun

A small area on a surface having a different colour from its surroundings, typically one caused by damage or dirt.

Usage examples:

The blow left a red mark down one side of her face

verb

Make a visible impression or stain on.

Usage examples:

He fingered the photograph gently, careful not to mark it

noun

(until the introduction of the euro in 2002) the basic monetary unit of germany, equal to 100 pfennig; a deutschmark.

Usage examples:

Germany spent billions of marks to save the french franc from speculators

verb

Mark with spots or smears of colour.

Usage examples:

Green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon

noun

An irregular arrangement of spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

The ship was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive green

adjective

Marked with spots or smears of colour.

Usage examples:

A bird with mottled brown plumage

verb

Mark with spots or smears of colour.

Usage examples:

Green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon

adjective

Marked with areas of different colors in an irregular pattern

Usage examples:

Mottled skin

adjective

(of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white.

Usage examples:

The resting caravan, surrounded by happy tousled children, mongrel dogs and piebald ponies grazing …

noun

A piebald horse.

Usage examples:

Sturdy ponies that pulled family traps to mass and churns of milk to the creamery, plough horses th…

adjective

(mainly of an animal) having a pattern of two different colours of hair, especially black and white

Usage examples:

Piebald ponies, the llama and alpaca are of many colours, often white, brown, or piebald., the beat…

noun

A tiny spot.

Usage examples:

The figure in the distance had become a mere speck

verb

Mark with small spots.

Usage examples:

Their skin was specked with goose pimples

noun

A smoked ham of a type produced in north-eastern italy.

Usage examples:

Add the radicchio, thyme, speck, prosciutto, and chicken stock and cook for another eight to ten mi…

noun

A small spot or patch of colour.

Usage examples:

It has white speckles on its forewing

verb

Mark with a large number of small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

Gulls whirled round the masts, speckling the docks with guano

noun

A very small mark of a different colour from the area around it, usually found with a large number of other marks of the same type

Usage examples:

A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it., a few drops of blood speckled his face., blac…

adjective

Covered or marked with a large number of small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

A large speckled brown egg

verb

Mark with a large number of small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

Gulls whirled round the masts, speckling the docks with guano

adjective

Having very small marks of a different color from the surface on which they are found

Usage examples:

We saw some speckled goose eggs.

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region

adjective

Marked or decorated with spots.

Usage examples:

A red spotted handkerchief

verb

See, notice, or recognize (someone or something) that is difficult to detect or that one is searching for.

Usage examples:

Andrew spotted the advert in the paper

adjective

Marked with spots.

Usage examples:

A spotty purple flower

verb

(in drawing, painting, and engraving) mark (a surface) with numerous small dots or specks.

Usage examples:

To finish, stipple the picture with the original base colour

noun

The process or technique of stippling a surface, or the effect so created.

Usage examples:

These pictures combine his favourite techniques—wash, line, and stipple

verb

To draw or paint something using small spots or marks

Usage examples:

She tried to create the impression of strong sunlight by stippling the canvas in yellow and white.,…

verb

(in drawing, painting, and engraving) mark (a surface) with numerous small dots or specks.

Usage examples:

To finish, stipple the picture with the original base colour

noun

The process or technique of stippling a surface, or the effect so created.

Usage examples:

These pictures combine his favourite techniques—wash, line, and stipple

adjective

Drawn, painted, or coloured using small spots or marks

Usage examples:

The divers saw tropical fish stippled in gold and black.

noun

A long, thin line or mark of a different substance or colour from its surroundings.

Usage examples:

A streak of oil

verb

Cover (a surface) with streaks.

Usage examples:

Tears streaking her face, cynthia looked up

noun

A mark of a color that is different from what surrounds it, or a thin strip of light

Usage examples:

Streaks of gray and black colored the marble., the comet appeared as a dazzling streak in the sky.,…

verb

Cover (a surface) with streaks.

Usage examples:

Tears streaking her face, cynthia looked up

noun

A long, thin line or mark of a different substance or colour from its surroundings.

Usage examples:

A streak of oil

noun

An element of a specified kind in someone's character.

Usage examples:

There's a streak of insanity in the family

adjective

Having streaks of different colours or textures.

Usage examples:

Streaky blond hair