pixilated
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səˌleɪ adjective
1.
slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
2.
amusingly whimsical, prankish, silly, or the like.
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verb (used with object)
1.
2.
to blur (parts of a digital image) by creating unclear, pixel-like patches, for purposes of censorship or to maintain the anonymity of the subject: Police have asked the media to pixelate the faces of the men who were taken into custody.
verb (used without object)
3.
(of a computer graphic or other digital image) to break up into visible pixels: We tried to watch the old, scratched DVD, but the image pixelated before our eyes.
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World English Dictionary
pixilated or pixillated (ˈpɪksɪˌleɪtɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | eccentric or whimsical |
| 2. | slang drunk |
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| pixillated or pixillated | |
| —adj | |
| [C20: from | |
| pixi'lation or pixillated | |
| —n | |
| pixil'lation or pixillated | |
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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | pixilated2 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | See pixelated |
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Word Origin & History
pixilated
"mildly insane, bewildered, tipsy," 1848, from pixie (q.v.) + -lated, as in titillated, etc., perhaps influenced by or a variant of pixie-led. A New England dialect word popularized by 1936 by movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town."
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Slang Dictionary
pixilated definitionand pixolated
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Digital images that are grainy or pixilated will not be considered.
Furthermore, objects in the image may become pixilated, causing artifacts to be interpreted as part of the original observation.
These survivors offer newly minted bloggers a pixilated blueprint for how to rise above the chaos of the blogosphere.
Digitized photographs will not be accepted if visible dots distort the image making it look grainy or pixilated.
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