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Definition: Dapple |
DappleNoun1. A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice": "a fleck of red". Verb1. Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dapple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dapple The name of Sancho Panza's donkey in Cervantes' romance of Don Quixote. Bailey derives dapple from the Teutonic dapper (streaked or spotted like a pippin). A dapple-grey horse is one of a light grey shaded with a deeper hue; a dapple-bay is a light bay spotted with bay of a deeper colour. (Icelandic, depill, a spot.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DAV | English | Dapple Apple Virus | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DappleSynonyms: fleck (n), maculation (n), patch (n), speckle (n), spot (n), cloud (v), mottle (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dapple |
| English words defined with "dapple": Dappling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dapple": Sancho Panza. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dapple" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Dapple" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dapple": dapple grey. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dapple": dapple-bay, dapple-bay horse, dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dapple-grey horse. | |
Ending with "dapple": lichen-dapple. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dapple"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pikoj (blob, distil, distill, dribble, drip, drizzle, drop, leak, ooze, trickle), pikohem, laros. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقط (dot, fleck, mottle, pit, point, punctuate, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple, trickle), لون (color, colour, paint, shade, stain, suffuse, tinge, tint, variegate), حصان أرقش, ترقش. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | на петна (blotchy, mottled, piebald, punctate, skewbald, speckled, splotchy, spotted, spotty), пъстър (chequered, fancy, freckled, medley, motley, mottled, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, roan, skewbald, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), изпъстрям се, изпъстрям (freak, lace, mottle, pepper, sprinkle). (various references) | |
Czech | poskvrnit (befoul, dishonor, dishonour, pollute, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish). (various references) | |
Danish | sortbroget (dapple black), smerte ved blænding (blinding pain, pain due to dapple), rødbroget (dapple red), blaaskimmel (blue mould, dapple-gray horse, dapple-grey horse, downy mildew), blændingsfølsomhed (blinding sensitiveness, sensitivity to dapple). (various references) | |
Dutch | zwartbont (dapple black), roodbont (dapple red), appelschimmel (dapple-gray horse, dapple-grey horse). (various references) | |
Finnish | punaisenkirjava karja (dapple red), papumus (dapple-gray horse, dapple-grey horse), mustankirjava karja (dapple black). (various references) | |
French | tacheter. (various references) | |
German | sprenkeln (Dot, flecker, speckle, sprinkle). (various references) | |
Greek | παρδαλόσ (brindled, dappled, motley, piebald, pied, roan), διαστίζω (prickle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pettyez (fleck, to dapple, to dot, to flake, to fleck, to freckle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | memerciki (bespatter, dabble, slop), banyak titik. (various references) | |
Italian | macchiarsi (blot, get marked, get stained, soil oneself, spot, stain, tarnish), macchiare (blot, blotch, dirty, Flavor, flavour, Mark, mottle, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, speckle, spot, stain, sully, tarnish). (various references) | |
Manx | breckey (bespeckle, brindle, chequer, chequering, dappled, embroider, freckle, jotting, mottle, pebble, rough, sharpen, spot, sprinkle, variegate, variegation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | appleday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salpicar (bedabble, bespatter, dabble, dash, dredge, flash, fleck, flecker, freak, pepper, speckle), salpicado (freaked, half-and-half), pintar (brush, coat, color, colour, depict, depicture, dope, fleck, limn, paint, picture, portray, represent), pinta (dot, flick, speck, speckle, spot), mesclado, manchado (blotchy, brindled, dappled, foxy, pied, smudgy, splotchy, spotted, stained), mancha (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brindle, cloud, defilement, flaw, fleck, guide-mark, marking, reproach, scar, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint, tarnish). (various references) | |
Romanian | se acoperi cu pete, se împestriţa, pestriţ (gay, harlequin, many-colored, many-coloured, medley, motley, mottled, particolored, particoloured, pied, speckled, spotted, variegated). (various references) | |
Russian | испещрять подпалина, испещрять (flecker, mottle, powder, specking, speckling, spot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | išarati (mottle, streak off, variegate). (various references) | |
Spanish | tordo (dapple grey, dappled, ousel, ouzel, thrush), tordillo (dapple grey, dappled), tener un animal picado, motear a colores, moteado (dappled, mottled, speckled, spotted), manchar (bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, daub, defile, dirty, foul, maculate, Mark, smear, smudge, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), animal picado. (various references) | |
Swedish | spräcklig (dappled, speckled, spreckled, tabby). (various references) | |
Turkish | puanlamak, beneklemek (Dot, fleck, flecker, mottle, speck, speckle, spot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сірий в яблуках кінь, строкатий фон, цяткувати (flecker, mottle), вкриватися плямами (patch), нерівномірне забарвлення, покривати плямами (bestain, blotch, splotch). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vết lốm đốm (speckle), đốm (mark, spot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dapple": dappled, dapples. (additional references) | |
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"Dapple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daple, Daplen, Daplyn, dapp, D'appel, depile, deple, diplo, Dippel, dipple, dopple, Papple. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lapped. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-p-p" | |
-1 letter: appel, apple, padle, paled, pedal, pepla, plead. | |
-2 letters: aped, dale, deal, lade, lead, leap, pale, palp, peal, plea, pled. | |
-3 letters: ale, alp, ape, dal, dap, del, eld, lad, lap, lea, led, pad, pal, pap, pea, ped, pep. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-p-p" | |
+1 letter: applied, clapped, dappled, dapples, flapped, slapped. | |
+2 letters: appalled, appealed, dapperly, dippable, grappled, lappered, lappeted, palpated, pedipalp, rappeled, upleaped. | |
+3 letters: appareled, applauded, applauder, appliqued, dewlapped, droppable, oppilated, panoplied, pedipalps, populated, preplaced, prolapsed, rappelled, reapplied. | |
+4 letters: apparelled, applauders, cephalopod, depopulate, diplophase, misapplied, overlapped, palpitated, pedophilia, pentaploid, preparedly, preplanned, supplanted. | |
+5 letters: applaudable, backslapped, blacktopped, cephalopods, depopulated, depopulates, diplophases, interlapped, lepidoptera, livetrapped, pedophiliac, pedophilias, pentaploids, pentaploidy, popularised, popularized, preprandial, pseudopodal, repopulated, supplicated, underlapped, wallpapered. | |
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