Purple vs English - What's the difference?
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A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
* Milton
Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
* Bible, Exodus xxvi. 1
(by extension) Imperial power, (because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings).
* Gibbon
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
* 2005 , Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller ,
* 2010 , Mark Arax, West of the West ,
* 2011 , Danielle Santiago, Allure of the Game ,
(medicine) purpura
earcockle, a disease of wheat.
Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia'' (formerly ''Limenitis ).
A cardinalate.
Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state'', ''purple city .
*2010 , Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada , University of Nevada Press, ISBN 978-0-87417-826-5,
*:In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple' state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a ' purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.
(label) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
Imperial; regal.
*(Percy Bysshe Shelley) (1792–1882)
*:Hide in the dust thy purple pride.
Blood-red; bloody.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:May such purple tears be alway shed.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:I view a field of blood, / And Tiber rolling with a purple blood.
Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
To turn purple in colour.
* 1999 , David Edelstein, (In Nomine): Corporeal Player's Guide , Steve Jackson Games, ISBN 1-55634-389-2, page 8:
Of or pertaining to England or its people.
English-language; of or pertaining to the English language.
Of or pertaining to an Englishman or Englishwoman.
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Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
(Amish) Non-Amish.
(collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
(Amish, collective plural) The non-Amish.
(surname)
One's ability to employ the English language correctly.
The English-language term or expression for something.
Specific language or wording; a text or statements in speech, whether a translation or otherwise.
(countable) A regional type of spoken and or written English; a dialect.
(printing, dated) A kind of type, in size between pica and great primer.
(North American) Spin or side given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
(archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.
*, page 214 (2001 reprint):
*:severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
As a proper noun purple
is (rare).As a noun english is
(us) spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.purple
English
(wikipedia purple)Noun
(en noun)- Arraying with reflected purple and gold / The clouds that on his western throne attend.
- to put on the imperial purple
- Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple , and scarlet.
- He was born in the purple .
- The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple .
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- "Sure, some purple Owlsley."
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- “Purple' smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real '''purple'''. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some ' purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
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- She preferred to smoke some good purple , but getting high wasn't an option.
- the banded purple
Adjective
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Antonyms
* (having purple as its colour) nonpurpleVerb
- The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.
Derived terms
* bepurple * born in the purple * purpureal * French purple * purple bird * purple copper ore * purple finch * purple gallinule * purple grackle * Purple Heart * purple loosestrife * purple martin * purple of Cassius * purple of mollusca * purple passage * purple patch * purple prose * purple sandpiper * purple shell * purple state * purpleheart * royal purple * Tyrian purple * visual purpleSee also
* purpure * rhodopsin * secondary color * English reduplicationsenglish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict.
- English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
Usage notes
* The name of the language, English , when it means "the English language", does not assume an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!" * The people as a collective noun require the definite article "the" or a demonstrative adjective. Hence: "The English are coming!" or "Oh, those English, always drinking their tea..."Noun
(en-noun)- My coworker has pretty good English for a non-native speaker.
- How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English ?
- The technical details are correct, but the English is not very clear.
- Put more English on the ball.