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# dapple

«dapple» in Mova's school dictionary: **A pattern of spots or patches of light and shade, as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dapples); adjective (dapple grey); verb (dapples, dappled, dappling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pattern of spots or patches of light and shade, as under trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dapple/#m1)

2) (of a horse) Grey with darker round spots, as in «dapple grey». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dapple/#m2)

3) To mark something with spots or patches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dapple/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

describes the light moving under green trees, or a horse's coat

### examples

- His eyes were skilled to observe the dusk and dapple of green woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dapple/#x1)
- He rode a dapple grey horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dapple/#x2)
- Sunlight dappled the forest floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dapple/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dapple» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dapple/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.