Stippling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A stippled pattern.

    "There is a rich celebration of city-tough plants deliberately carried over from the days when the abandoned High Line bloomed untended with wild stipplings of red sumac, smoke bush, milkweed, echinacea and other self-seeding invaders."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of stipple form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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blotchburrchiselingcoatingcoveringcross hatching

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"Stippling, hatching, and cross-hatching are all techniques used to shade drawings."

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