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DAPPLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A small contrasting part of something

Example:

a fleck of red

Synonyms:

dapple; fleck; maculation; patch; speckle; spot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("dapple" is a kind of...):

marking (a pattern of marks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dapple"):

pinpoint; speck (a very small spot)

nebula ((pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea)

splash (a patch of bright color)

fret; worn spot (a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion)

plaque ((pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body)

macula; macule (a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases)

mock sun; parhelion; sundog (a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals)

macula; sunspot (a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field)

facula; solar facula (a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots)

facula (a bright spot on a planet)

Derivation:

dapple (colour with streaks or blotches of different shades)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

Synonyms:

cloud; dapple; mottle

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dapple" is one way to...):

spot (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dapple"):

harlequin (variegate with spots or marks)

speckle; stipple (produce a mottled effect)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

dapple (a small contrasting part of something)

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