pigment
To add color or pigment to somethingTo add color or pigment to something.
» Make up has often used carmine as a pigment to achieve bright red shades.
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1 sensesTo add color or pigment to something.
pigmentieren
color or dye with a pigment
Examples
9 sentencesMake up has often used carmine as a pigment to achieve bright red shades.
Adrenochrome is a pigment.
This pigment is the best.
Plant pigments such as the carotenoids and chlorophylls will react similarly when exposed to light of high intensity.
The choroid is a highly vascularised, darkly pigmented layer found in between the retina and the sclera of the eye.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to painFrom Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
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Forms
pigments, pigmenting, pigmented, pigmentedWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle