Word Study
mottle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mottle has 1 sense
- mottle(n = noun.attribute) Array - an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" is a kind of color, coloring, colour, colouring
Verb mottle has 2 senses
- mottle(v = verb.creation) blotch, streak - mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained; Array is one way to color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize
- mottle(v = verb.change) cloud, dapple - colour with streaks or blotches of different shades; Array is one way to spot
Derived form noun mottling1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun mottling1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
mottle, v. t. [From Mottled.].
To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. [1913 Webster]
mottle, n.
A mottled appearance. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mottle, v. & n.
--v.tr. (esp. as mottled adj.) mark with spots or smears of colour.
--n.
1 an irregular arrangement of spots or patches of colour.
2 any of these spots or patches.
--v.tr. (esp. as mottled adj.) mark with spots or smears of colour.
--n.
1 an irregular arrangement of spots or patches of colour.
2 any of these spots or patches.
Etymology
prob. back-form. f. MOTLEY
THESAURUS
mottle
band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, cut, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, dot, dottedness, earmark, engrave, engraving, flake, fleck, flick, freckle, freckliness, gash, graving, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress, imprint, iris, jot, lentigo, line, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mole, motley, mottledness, nevus, nick, notch, patch, pencil, pepper, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, spangle, speck, speckle, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tattoo mark, tessellate, tick, tick off, tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark
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