different between spotted vs dapple

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sp?t?d/
• (General American) enPR: sp?t??d, IPA^(key): /?sp?t??d/, [?sp????d]
• Rhymes: -?t?d
• Hyphenation: spot?ted

Adjective

spotted (comparative more spotted, superlative most spotted)

1. Discoloured by spots; stained.
2. (no comparative or superlative) Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).

   the spotted hyena

Synonyms

• (discoloured by spots): blotched, blotchy, stained, spotty

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Verb

spotted

1. simple past tense and past participle of spot

Derived terms

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?dæp??]
• Rhymes: -æp?l

Noun

dapple (plural dapples)

1. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
2. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
   • 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, [1] 2004

     “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.

   • 2004, D Caroline Coile, [3]

     Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.

Translations

Adjective

dapple (comparative more dapple, superlative most dapple)

1. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.

   a dapple horse

Translations

Verb

dapple (third-person singular simple present dapples, present participle dappling, simple past and past participle dappled)

1. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

Translations

Anagrams

• appled, lapped, palped