Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ophthalmol., an appearance of the retina as if thickly dotted with light and dark points.
- noun In the fine arts, dotted work of any kind, whether executed with the brush-point, the pencil, or the stipple-graver.
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- verb Present participle of
stipple . - noun A stippled pattern.
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Examples
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In the preliminary hearing for Cara Cottle, 31, evidence from Smiler's autopsy revealed that one of his hands had gunpowder residue and "stippling," indicating that his hand was near the muzzle of the rifle that killed him.
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In the preliminary hearing for Cara Cottle, 31, evidence from Smiler's autopsy revealed that one of his hands had gunpowder residue and "stippling," indicating that his hand was near the muzzle of the rifle that killed him.
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Antonio was the inventor of the method of "stippling," as the finishing with minute points of colour is technically called, which was brought to such perfection by Clovio and his scholars and imitators.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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Magoch's autopsy report listed possible "stippling," or gunshot residue, on the skin beneath Magoch's left sideburn where the bullet entered.
azcentral.com | news 2010
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Obviously meant to look like a real magazine's cover photo, the Flash portrait was created using a very methodical technique called "stippling", which uses thousands of ink dots to simulate a face's subtle contours and shadowing.
Comic Coverage Mark Engblom 2009
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"stippling" lightly the remainder of the rock with the same.
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We can add it to the Official Glossary of Procedural Terms containing all the words crime and medical shows have taught us: exsanguination, defenestration, contusion, hematoma, mass spectrometer, stippling, Sarcoidosis ….
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Greenspun said gunshot residue tests showed stippling, from the gas and gunpowder of a gun barrel, on Smiler's right hand.
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Greenspun said gunshot residue tests showed stippling, from the gas and gunpowder of a gun barrel, on Smiler's right hand.
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The other surface reveals a smooth five-pointed star, its branches separated by the fine stippling of hundreds of tiny nodules.
MaryW commented on the word stippling
Judy Melinek, M.D. & T.J. Mitchell, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (New York: Scribner: 2014), p. 117 (emphasis added).March 8, 2016