English > pigment: 5 senses > noun 1, substance| Meaning | dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid / liquid to produce paint, etc.). |
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| Narrower | Hooker's green | green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge |
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| Indian red | A red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics |
| Paris green | A toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate |
| Payne's grey, Payne's gray | Any pigment that produces a greyish to dark greyish blue |
| alizarin, alizarine | An orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing |
| animal pigment | Pigment occurring in animals |
| bacteriochlorophyll | A substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants |
| bister, bistre | A water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot |
| bole | A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) |
| cadmium yellow | pigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orange |
| carotenoid | Any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals |
| cerulean blue | light greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of oxides of cobalt and tin |
| chlorophyll, chlorophyl | Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms |
| chrome green | Any of a class of green pigments consisting of chrome yellow and iron blue |
| chrome yellow | Any of several yellow pigments consisting of normal lead chromate and other lead compounds |
| cobalt blue, cobalt ultramarine | greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of cobalt oxide and alumina |
| earth color | A colored mineral used as a pigment |
| flavonoid | Any of a large class of plant pigments having a chemical structure based on or similar to flavone |
| heme, haem, hematin, haemitin, protoheme | A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds |
| hemosiderin, haemosiderin | A granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide |
| iron blue, Prussian blue | Any of various blue pigments |
| ivory black | A black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil |
| lake | Any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments |
| lake | A purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal |
| mosaic gold, stannic sulfide | A yellow pigment sometimes suspended in lacquer |
| orange | Any pigment producing the orange color |
| photopigment | A special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina |
| phycobilin | water-soluble proteinaceous pigments found in red algae and cyanobacteria |
| phycocyanin | blue pigment in algae |
| phycoerythrin | Red pigment in red algae |
| porphyrin | Any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues |
| retinene, retinal | Either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light |
| sepia | Rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes |
| titanium dioxide, titanium oxide, titanic oxide, titania | A white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability |
| ultramarine, ultramarine blue | blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli |
| verdigris, cupric acetate | A blue or green powder used as a paint pigment |
| watercolor, water-color, watercolour, water-colour | water-soluble pigment |
| white lead, ceruse, lead carbonate | A poisonous white pigment that contains lead |
| zinc white, Chinese white | A white pigment used in house paints |
| Broader | coloring material, colouring material, color, colour | Any material used for its color |
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| Substance of | paint, pigment | A substance used as a coating / coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid / liquid) |
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| Spanish | pigmento |
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| Catalan | pigment |
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| Verbs | pigment | color or dye with a pigment |
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| pigment | acquire pigment |
English > pigment: 5 senses > noun 3, artifact| Meaning | A substance used as a coating / coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid / liquid); dries to form a hard coating / coating. |
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| Example | "artists use 'paint' and 'pigment' interchangeably" |
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| Synonym | paint |
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| Narrower | acrylic, acrylic paint | Used especially by artists |
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| antifouling paint | A paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces |
| coat of paint | A layer of paint covering something else |
| distemper | paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder |
| enamel | A paint that dries to a hard glossy finish |
| encaustic | A paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax |
| finger paint, fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
| house paint, housepaint | paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house |
| oil paint | paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle |
| semigloss | A paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat |
| spray paint | paint applied with a spray gun |
| water-base paint | paint in which water is used as the vehicle |
| Broader | coating, coat | A thin layer covering something |
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| coloring material, colouring material, color, colour | Any material used for its color |
| Substances | pigment | dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid / liquid to produce paint, etc.) |
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| Spanish | pigmento, pintura |
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| Catalan | pigment, pintura |
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