Speckle - English meaning

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.

adjective

Marked with spots or rounded patches.

Usage examples:

The horse's dappled flank

verb

Mark with spots or rounded patches.

Usage examples:

The floor was dappled with pale moonlight

adjective

Covered with spots of colour that are lighter or darker than the main colour, or covered with areas of light and darkness

Usage examples:

A dappled pony, the dappled sunlight fell across her face as she lay beneath the tree.

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

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.

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.

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

verb

Mark with small spots.

Usage examples:

Their skin was specked with goose pimples

noun

A tiny spot.

Usage examples:

The figure in the distance had become a mere speck

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…

adjective

Covered or marked with small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

The eggs are large and brown and speckly

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

Cover (an object or surface) with small drops or particles of a substance.

Usage examples:

I sprinkled the floor with water

noun

A small quantity or amount of something scattered over an object or surface.

Usage examples:

a generous sprinkle of pepper

noun

A light rain.

Usage examples:

The rain grew from a mere sprinkle to a respectable drizzle

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.