Pigment can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| pigment - acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | ||
| pigment - color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph" | ||
Noun |
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| pigment - dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | ||
| pigment - any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | ||
| 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; "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably" |
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| 1. | noun | Artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably. | |
| 2. | noun | It is said that Lycopene, a pigment found in tomatoes, makes your skin beautiful and helps you lose weight. | |
| 3. | noun | Scientists have discovered that an ancient pigment, called Egyptian blue, can be used as dusting powder to detect fingerprints. | |
| 4. | noun | It's unusual, but there are critters that bleed different colors of the rainbow besides red. The New Guinea lizards' blood — along with their tongues, muscles and bones — appear green because of incredibly large doses of a green bile pigment. | |
| 5. | noun | Some hippie writers invented the idea of a drug called "adrenochrome" which does not actually exist, but is homonymous with a non-psychoactive pigment. | |
| 6. | verb | Pigment a photograph. |
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| noun | |
| Artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably. |
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| It is said that Lycopene, a pigment found in tomatoes, makes your skin beautiful and helps you lose weight. | |
| Scientists have discovered that an ancient pigment, called Egyptian blue, can be used as dusting powder to detect fingerprints. | |
| It's unusual, but there are critters that bleed different colors of the rainbow besides red. The New Guinea lizards' blood — along with their tongues, muscles and bones — appear green because of incredibly large doses of a green bile pigment. | |
| Some hippie writers invented the idea of a drug called "adrenochrome" which does not actually exist, but is homonymous with a non-psychoactive pigment. | |
| verb | |
| Pigment a photograph. |
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