What's the difference between dapple and mottle?

Dapple


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.
  • (a.) Alt. of Dappled
  • (v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
  • (2) In addition, all affected members show a characteristic pattern of cutaneous hyperpigmentation, which resembles macular amyloidosis around the neck and waist, but which confers a dappled appearance to the axillae, popliteal fossae, thighs, buttocks, and lower aspect of the abdomen.
  • (3) Drinking water in dappled forest shade, Boban points to wild asparagus growing by the roadside.
  • (4) Unfortunately this data is about as much use in predicting the future course of the property market as sun-dappled photos of the summer of 1914.
  • (5) From the drifts of waxy, geometric paper leaves on the floor, to the dappled lighting; from the wonky litter bin, to the library table as the room's centrepiece; Boyce's room is both impressive and affecting.
  • (6) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
  • (7) After creating the Reading striker’s opener, Carney headed England’s late second in front of a capacity 13,000-plus crowd at a sun-dappled Moncton Stadium.
  • (8) It's 6.30pm and I'm on the sofa, watching an overgrown blue woolly person with a red security blanket and a bell in his foot, who is squeaking and jingling through a sun-dappled wood in the company of a large, excitable dolly - her hair stands on end when she's especially thrilled - who says, 'Ooh!
  • (9) As for Serena’s great rival, Sharapova, she was seen off by Kerber in a rollicking fourth-round match on a sun-dappled, cabriolet Centre Court: 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.
  • (10) The perfect summer lunch, for me at least, will involve a table outdoors, but in dappled shade, a group of people who enjoy eating and drinking, and some seasonal food.
  • (11) Taiyo, but also to dapple fruit symptoms on peach cv.
  • (12) Leave time for a meal in the grounds at the idyllic Lodi restaurant, where you can loll in a private gypsy wagon overlooking a sun-dappled courtyard, sip cocktails and work your way through the delicious Mediterranean menu.
  • (13) Probe HSV-1 detected all the members of HSV group, such as HSV-hop, HSV-grapevine, HSV-cucumber, HSV-citrus and a viroid-like RNA isolated from plum trees affected by plum dapple fruit disease.
  • (14) Her opening week at the helm ended with a rousing welcome from the party faithful at the nationalists' spring conference on a sun-dappled racecourse in west Wales.
  • (15) On a computer screen, a bald, muddy seam on the woodland floor is being sown over with green, and the sunny dapple is being added (filming was completed in October 2006, after six months of lightning strikes, flash floods and oak blight).
  • (16) Chord lengths of air spaces from cranial and caudal lobes of lungs were acquired using a Dapple Systems image analyzer, and a two-population frequency distribution was generated for analysis with an IBM PC.
  • (17) Dappled apple trees and "perfect" lives riddled with curtain-twitching darknesses, great social humour, heartache, industrial-strength bitchiness and, at their best, plotlines that somehow managed to marry Twin Peaks to The Simpsons , and Marcia Cross as the ever-magnificent Bree.
  • (18) We have studied the detection of apple scar skin, dapple apple, and pear rusty skin viroids in nucleic acid extracts of infected pome fruit tissues by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with viroid cDNA-specific primers.
  • (19) Trees (in fact, the pillars that support the gallery ceiling) loom, their geometric aluminium leaves dappling the light that is cast over the space.
  • (20) Even the actress Carol White's hair seems to mirror her character's inexorable pitch into poverty, first a gleaming golden halo as she promenades with her fiance Reg in a dappled park, then the neat bob of a housewife and mother, initially flourishing in a posh maisonette with double glazing, then struggling with vermin and bailiffs in a series of increasingly overcrowded and dingy abodes following her husband's sudden unemployment.

Mottle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
  • (n.) A mottled appearance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correction of structure mottle helps enhance the image clarity.
  • (2) Middle component particles of bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) containing small protein subunits with a cleaved C terminus were used to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs).
  • (3) From the children examined (n = 83; 49 boys and 34 girls; mean age, 13 years and 5 months), 74% exhibited mottled enamel in a slight to moderate degree.
  • (4) It is known that the copper concentration and copper-containing enzyme activity are low in cerebrum of mottled mice as well as of patients with Menkes' disease.
  • (5) A 2-year-old boy had intermittent pain and mottling of the left thigh.
  • (6) The remaining white patterning factor, mottled white (Mo), is sex linked and is assumed to be genetically unrelated to pinto.
  • (7) The other patient showed patchy choroidal ischemia with subsequent development of wedge-shaped areas of pigmentary atrophy and mottling in the midperiphery.
  • (8) A family is reported in which 11 members presented epidermolysis bullosa simplex with some unusual features, and 10 of whom had congenital mottled hyper- and hypopigmentation of the skin.
  • (9) It usually presents as a destructive lesion with diffuse mottled calcification.
  • (10) The outer wall layer showed a mottled appearance between two electron-dense boundaries of different thickness.
  • (11) New information is presented on the analysis of bean yellow mosaic virus amino terminal epitopes as well as on the identification of amino terminal antigenic determinants shared between strains of bean yellow mosaic virus and pepper mottle virus.
  • (12) The brindled mottled mutant mouse, a model of Menkes' disease, has alterations in copper homeostasis which cause, among other sequelae, neuronal degeneration in selected areas of brain.
  • (13) The chest X-ray film of a girl with cystic fibrosis (CF) showed slowly increasing mottled densities during the 6th and 7th year of her life.
  • (14) The fried and cooked meat of the most culinary portions of the Tagil variety undergo a more complete hydrolysis by comparison with black-mottled cattle meat.
  • (15) In hormone-free cells the receptor distributes in a mottled pattern throughout all planes of the nucleus.
  • (16) These included retrograde hepatic venous opacification on the early bolus scans and a diffusely mottled pattern of hepatic enhancement seen only during the vascular phase of contrast administration.
  • (17) An inflammatory blush, slow emptying of vessels and a mottled nephrogram with loss of cortical definition are highly suggestive signs of renal inflammation.
  • (18) The entire fundus showed a mottled appearance characterized by mixture of fine granular pigmentation and depigmentation associated with patchy depigmentation in the periphery.
  • (19) Disseminated, non homogenous bronchial lines and mottled shadows often with swollen hilar lymphnodes in 46% of all patients.--2.
  • (20) Another possibility is that the fibrotic matrix in which the surviving cells in the mottled infarct are distributed may contribute to an increase in extracellular resistance as compared to normal myocardium.

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