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incipient \in-SIP-ee-uhnt\ , adjective

beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage: an incipient cold.

Beginning,nascent,developing,inchoate
developed, grown, mature

Language: Latin Origin: present participle of incipere; INCEPTION

(stem of incipins, present participle of incipere to take in hand , begin),equivalent to in- in-2 + -cipi- (combining form of capitake) + -ent- -ent
Notes(Usage , Derived words etc..) Incipience,Incipiency,Incipiently(adv) Can be confused: incipient, insipid, insipient (archaic-lack ofwisdom , foolishness under word insipience). Incipient civil disorder ,incipient tumor. .
Also, improved diagnostic techniques can alert individuals to incipient illnesses. -- James Flanigan, "Patients' Rights and Health-Care Costs Are Expanding Together", Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1999 Shiv gradually became aware that he was onto something big, bigger than anything he had ever done before. He was nudged by an incipient awareness that perhaps it was even too big for him. -- Ken Kalfus, Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies She sighed for him; so young, and yet so pass, and with an incipient beer belly. -- Shena MacKay, The Artist's Widow Sir George devoted much of his energies to worrying about money and was preoccupied by thoughts of his incipient pauperdom. -- Philip Ziegler, Osbert Sitwell

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He has dark eyes, incipient jowls, and a mannerthat can change in a moment from expansivelygenial to theatrically menacing. It seems a world away from the incipient revolution proclaimed on the n ightly news. In the kernel of an idea lies that idea's incipient obsolescence. The symptom in the true neuroses is frequentlythe nucleus and incipie nt stage of developmentof the psychoneurotic symptom.
Additional training requirements for employeesexpected to fight incipient stage fires. Cell phones are a surrogate telecominfrastructure for the nation's incipient economy.

The result could be a sharp rise in bond yields,threatening any incipient recovery. These extra calories can make all the differenceto an incipient fire ant colony. From a detail of political etiquette, he could inferthe incipient mentality of the totalitari an. It was the direct result of not having enoughtroops on the ground to suppress any inci pient resistance movements.

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dapple \DAP-uhl\ , noun: 1. A small contrasting spot or blotch (of something). 2. A mottled appearance, especially of the coat of an animal (as a horse).

transitive verb:
1. To mark with patches of a color or shade; to spot.

intransitive verb:
1. To become dappled.

adjective:
Noun-1.a spot or mottled marking, usually occurring in clusters.

2. an animal with a mottled skin or coat.

adjective

3. dappled; spotted: a dapple horse. verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 4. to mark or become marked with spots.

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Marking,Spot Facula,Fret,Macula,Macule,Mocksun,nebula,parhelion,pinpoint,plaque,speck,splash, Harlequin,Stipple Cloud,mottle,fleck,maculation,patch,speckle,spot probably back formation from dappled

1. Marked with contrasting patches or spots; dappled. Look at . . . his cows with their comic camouflage dapples . . . . -- Arthur C. Danto, "Sometimes Red", ArtForum, January 2002 70 diamond- and hexagonal-shaped holes, 35 between the North End ramp and the northbound lanes, and 35 between the northbound and southbound lanes, allow light to filter through and dapple the river below. -- Raphael Lewis, "A walk into the future", Boston Globe, May 9, 2002 Gentle shafts of sunlight . . . dapple the grass. -- Gail Sheehy, Hillary's Choice

The mozzarella-andsauce landscape is createdby fountains of scorchinghot sulfur and itscompounds, which dapple the surface. Patterns of shade and sun dapple thesurrounding landscape. Beech and oak trees dapple shade over rareorchids, buttercups and oth er wildflowers of thewoodlands

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