Pigment
['pɪgm(ə)nt] or ['pɪgmənt]
Definition
(noun.) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.).
(noun.) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color.
(verb.) color or dye with a pigment; 'pigment a photograph'.
(verb.) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued.
Typed by Bartholdi--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
(n.) Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.
(n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.
Typed by Barnaby
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Paint, color, coloring matter.
Editor: Randolph
Definition
n. paint: any substance used for colouring: that which gives colour to animal and vegetable tissues.—adjs. Pigment′al Pig′mentary.—n. Pig′ment-cell a cell which secrets pigment.
Inputed by Jon
Examples
- They were the only parts of his face that showed any life or expression, the pigment upon it was so thick. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- When nature paints she does so with the brush of beauty, dipped in the pigment of truth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Stained-glass windows owe their charm and beauty to the presence in the glass of various dyes and pigments which absorb in different amounts some colors from white light and transmit others. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For the sake of ornamentation, various colored pigments are added to the paint and give variety of effect. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Typist: Shirley