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STUDDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does studded mean?
• STUDDED (adjective)
The adjective STUDDED has 1 sense:
1. dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination
Familiarity information: STUDDED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination
Context example:
diamond-studded belt
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Context examples
The table had in the meanwhile been cleared, and was now studded with bottles and glasses, while long clay pipes and tobacco-boxes were handed round.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The transiting moon will also be in Pisces, making this day a star-studded standout.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The walls of bare unpainted planks were studded here and there with great wooden pins, placed at irregular intervals and heights, from which hung over-tunics, wallets, whips, bridles, and saddles.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When we had crossed the second ridge we saw before us an irregular, palm-studded plain, and then the line of high red cliffs which I have seen in the picture.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The region is studded with flat-topped mountains.
(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)
The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Then he took out my traps, and placed them on the ground beside me as I stood close to a great door, old and studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of massive stone.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was impossible to mistake the scene of the young lady’s adventure, for the road runs between the open heath on one side and an old yew hedge upon the other, surrounding a park which is studded with magnificent trees.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The endoplasmic reticulum is a network of tubular membranes within the cytoplasm of the cell, occurring either with a smooth surface (smooth endoplasmic reticulum) or studded with ribosomes (rough endoplasmic reticulum), involved in the transport of materials.
(Endoplasmic Reticulum, NCI Thesaurus)
They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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