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verb
noun
- dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- 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
- any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
- (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells.
- A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
noun
- any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
- a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
- a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
- (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- A large amount of liquid.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
verb
noun
- any pigment producing the orange color
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
adj
verb
adj
- (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted
- (of a colour) Not chromatically pure; diluted.
- not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature
- used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond
- (chemistry) Of a compound containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond, especially of an organic compound having one or more double bonds or triple bonds between carbon atoms.
- (chemistry, of a solution) Not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.
noun
- Any substance used to give color.
- The appearance as to color.
- An act or process which applies color.
- (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
- A disguise or discoloration.
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- a digestible substance used to give color to food
- the act or process of changing the color of something
adj
verb
verb
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
noun
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
verb
noun
prefix
noun
- A white pigment.
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
adj
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
verb
noun
- a substance that colors or dyes
- (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
- an indication that something has been present
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
- (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- (by extension, humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
- (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- (chemistry) The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
verb
- stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color
- fill, as with a certain quality
- (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
- (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
- (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
verb
noun
adj
noun
verb
verb
- color with a liquid dye or tint
- color for microscopic study
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- produce or leave stains
- (transitive) To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
- To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
- To coat a surface with a stain
- (transitive, cytology, histology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
noun
- (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
- a soiled or discolored appearance
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- (heraldry) One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
noun
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- A brownish grey colour.
- An urgent request or demand of payment.
- A mound or small hill.
- (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).
adj
verb
- treat cruelly
- persistently ask for overdue payment
- make a dun color
- cure by salting
- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
- (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.
intj
noun
verb
- show submission or fear
- have fawns
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
- (literal, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
- (derogatory) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour. [with on or upon]
- To exhibit affection toward someone.
- To attempt to please someone.
adj
noun
- any of various blue pigments
- a dark greenish-blue color
- (inorganic chemistry) An insoluble dark, bright blue pigment, ferric ferrocyanide (equivalent to ferrous ferricyanide), used in painting and dyeing, and as an antidote for certain kinds of heavy metal poisoning.
- A moderate to rich blue colour, tinted with deep greenish blue.
adj
noun
- A primary colour.
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- The first year of grade school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- A primary school.
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
adj
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
verb
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
adj
- (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
- of comparatively little physical weight or density
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- of little intensity or power or force
- easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
- not great in degree or quantity or number
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
- designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
- (of sleep) easily disturbed
- silly or trivial
- having relatively few calories
- characterized by or emitting light
- demanding little effort; not burdensome
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- having little importance
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
- of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
- very thin and insubstantial
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- With low viscosity.
- (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not heavy; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- (cooking) Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- (military) Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive or consist of locomotives) Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Cheerful.
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- (nautical, of a ship) Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Fast; nimble.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
noun
- a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
- the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- a person regarded very fondly
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- an illuminated area
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience
- having abundant light or illumination
- a visual warning signal
- (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- any device serving as a source of illumination
- public awareness
- (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A traffic light, or (by extension) an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- (crosswording) The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- (by extension) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye or in nearby ranges (infrared or ultraviolet radiation).
- A lightbulb or similar light-emitting device, regardless of whether it is lit.
- (slang) A cigarette lighter.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- (military, historical) A member of the light cavalry.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- (figurative) Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- (by extension, less commonly) Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- (countable) A source of illumination.
- (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- (Australia, uncountable) A low-alcohol lager.
- The power of perception by vision: eyesight (sightedness; vision).
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
adv
verb
- begin to smoke
- introduce light into
- alight from (a horse)
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- to come to rest, settle
- (transitive) To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- (by extension) To leave; to depart.
- (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To find by chance.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- (transitive, pinball) To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
noun
verb
noun
- Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
- (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
noun
- The quality of being colored.
- (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
- Political tendency.
- (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
- (linguistics) This when a consonant bleeds one of the qualities to the next vowel before the consonant disappears. This can describe PIE Laryngeal Theory.
- The act or art of coloring.
- appearance with regard to color
- choice and use of colors (as by an artist)
- the timbre of a musical sound
noun
- any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
- a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
- a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
- (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- A large amount of liquid.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
verb
noun
- any pigment producing the orange color
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
adj
verb
noun
- Any substance used to give color.
- The appearance as to color.
- An act or process which applies color.
- (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
- A disguise or discoloration.
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- a digestible substance used to give color to food
- the act or process of changing the color of something
adj
verb
noun
- A white pigment.
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
adj
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
verb
noun
- a substance that colors or dyes
- (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
- an indication that something has been present
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
- (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- (by extension, humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
- (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- (chemistry) The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
verb
- stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color
- fill, as with a certain quality
- (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
- (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
- (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
noun
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- A brownish grey colour.
- An urgent request or demand of payment.
- A mound or small hill.
- (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).
adj
verb
- treat cruelly
- persistently ask for overdue payment
- make a dun color
- cure by salting
- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
- (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.
intj
noun
verb
- show submission or fear
- have fawns
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
- (literal, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
- (derogatory) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour. [with on or upon]
- To exhibit affection toward someone.
- To attempt to please someone.
adj
noun
- any of various blue pigments
- a dark greenish-blue color
- (inorganic chemistry) An insoluble dark, bright blue pigment, ferric ferrocyanide (equivalent to ferrous ferricyanide), used in painting and dyeing, and as an antidote for certain kinds of heavy metal poisoning.
- A moderate to rich blue colour, tinted with deep greenish blue.
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noun
- A primary colour.
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- The first year of grade school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- A primary school.
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
adj
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
verb
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
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- Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
- (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
noun
- The quality of being colored.
- (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
- Political tendency.
- (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
- (linguistics) This when a consonant bleeds one of the qualities to the next vowel before the consonant disappears. This can describe PIE Laryngeal Theory.
- The act or art of coloring.
- appearance with regard to color
- choice and use of colors (as by an artist)
- the timbre of a musical sound
verb
noun
- dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- 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
- any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
- (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells.
- A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
verb
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
noun
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
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verb
noun
verb
- color with a liquid dye or tint
- color for microscopic study
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- produce or leave stains
- (transitive) To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
- To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
- To coat a surface with a stain
- (transitive, cytology, histology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
noun
- (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
- a soiled or discolored appearance
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- (heraldry) One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
adj
- (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted
- (of a colour) Not chromatically pure; diluted.
- not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature
- used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond
- (chemistry) Of a compound containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond, especially of an organic compound having one or more double bonds or triple bonds between carbon atoms.
- (chemistry, of a solution) Not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.
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adj
- (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
- of comparatively little physical weight or density
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- of little intensity or power or force
- easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
- not great in degree or quantity or number
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
- designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- weak and likely to lose consciousness
- (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
- (of sleep) easily disturbed
- silly or trivial
- having relatively few calories
- characterized by or emitting light
- demanding little effort; not burdensome
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- having little importance
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
- of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
- very thin and insubstantial
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- With low viscosity.
- (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not heavy; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- (cooking) Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- (military) Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive or consist of locomotives) Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Cheerful.
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- (nautical, of a ship) Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Fast; nimble.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
noun
- a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
- the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- a person regarded very fondly
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- an illuminated area
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience
- having abundant light or illumination
- a visual warning signal
- (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- any device serving as a source of illumination
- public awareness
- (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A traffic light, or (by extension) an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- (crosswording) The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- (by extension) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye or in nearby ranges (infrared or ultraviolet radiation).
- A lightbulb or similar light-emitting device, regardless of whether it is lit.
- (slang) A cigarette lighter.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- (military, historical) A member of the light cavalry.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- (figurative) Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- (by extension, less commonly) Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- (countable) A source of illumination.
- (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- (Australia, uncountable) A low-alcohol lager.
- The power of perception by vision: eyesight (sightedness; vision).
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
adv
verb
- begin to smoke
- introduce light into
- alight from (a horse)
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- to come to rest, settle
- (transitive) To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- (by extension) To leave; to depart.
- (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To find by chance.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- (transitive, pinball) To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.