What is "pigment" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does pigment mean in English? Meaning of pigment definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "pigment" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "pigment": dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)

Noun

  • Meaning: dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
  • Synonyms: pigment
  • Hyponyms: alizarin alizarine animal pigment bacteriochlorophyll bister bistre bole cadmium yellow carotenoid cerulean blue ceruse chinese white chlorophyl chlorophyll chrome green chrome yellow cobalt blue cobalt ultramarine cupric acetate earth color flavonoid haem haemitin haemosiderin hematin heme hemosiderin hooker's green indian red iron blue ivory black lake lead carbonate mosaic gold orange paris green payne's gray payne's grey photopigment phycobilin phycocyanin phycoerythrin porphyrin protoheme prussian blue retinal retinene sepia stannic sulfide titania titanic oxide titanium dioxide titanium oxide ultramarine ultramarine blue verdigris water-color water-colour watercolor watercolour white lead zinc white
  • Hypernyms: color coloring material colour colouring material
  • Hyphenation: pi‧gment

    Meaning of "pigment": acquire pigment; become colored or imbued

    Verb

  • Meaning: acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
  • Synonyms: pigment
  • Hypernyms: hue
  • Hyphenation: pi‧gment

    Meaning of "pigment": any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color

    Noun

  • Meaning: any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
  • Synonyms: pigment
  • Hypernyms: color coloring material colour colouring material
  • Hyphenation: pi‧gment

    Meaning of "pigment": color or dye with a pigment

    Verb

  • Meaning: color or dye with a pigment
  • Example: pigment a photograph
  • Synonyms: pigment
  • Hypernyms: color color in colorise colorize colour colour in colourise colourize
  • Hyphenation: pi‧gment

    Meaning of "pigment": a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating

    Noun

  • Meaning: a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
  • Example: artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably
  • Synonyms: paint pigment
  • Hyponyms: acrylic acrylic paint antifouling paint coat of paint distemper enamel encaustic finger paint fingerpaint house paint housepaint oil paint semigloss spray paint water-base paint
  • Hypernyms: coat coating color coloring material colour colouring material
  • Substance Holonyms: pigment
  • Hyphenation: pi‧gment

    Synonyms:

    dye, stain, tint, coloring, paint, oil, tincture, dyestuff, colorant, coloring matter,

    Antonyms:

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    pigment in English: pigment
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