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Definition of Pigment
1. Verb. Acquire pigment; become colored or imbued.
2. Noun. Dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.).
Substance meronyms: Paint
Generic synonyms: Color, Coloring Material, Colour, Colouring Material
3. Verb. Color or dye with a pigment. "Pigment a photograph"
4. Noun. Any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color.
5. Noun. 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. "Artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"
Specialized synonyms: 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
Generic synonyms: Coat, Coating, Color, Coloring Material, Colour, Colouring Material
Derivative terms: Paint, Paint, Paint, Paint
Definition of Pigment
1. 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.
Definition of Pigment
1. Noun. (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells ¹
2. Noun. A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To add color or pigment to something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pigment
1. to add a coloring matter to [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Pigment
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1. Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified colouring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigment
Literary usage of Pigment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"ASCOLI (Policlinico, 1910) says that the pigment found in the spleens of individuals
... The pigment gives the spectrum and chemical reactions of hematin, ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"In various parts of the body pigment is found ; most frequently in epithelial
cells and in the cells of connective tissue. ..."
3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1890)
"Dr. BLASCHKO (Berlin), said it is not true that the pigment remains fixed in the
... As to the absence of pigment in the horny layer, the pigment is readily ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In most animals the coloration is due to pigment-cells (see CHROMATOPHORES),
which are more or less ramified, and which, under the stimulus of the ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"If each patch or center were to be slightly reduced, a series of five pigment
spots on each side, and one on the crown would result, bounded by white ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"(a) There is more variety in the degree of development of the pigment epithelium
than ... An increase of pigment is an incident to the gradual diminution in ..."
7. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"It is difficult to suppose that the sole function of this pigment is to absorb the
... And indeed it has been shewn that the pigment is sensitive to light ..."
8. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"The Production of pigment.—Host bacterial cells do not contain pigment, ...
Great variation may occur in the amount and character of the pigment produced by ..."
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