purple

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɜː.pl̩/    美 /ˈpɜː.pl̩/|/ˈpɝ.pl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta. countable,uncountable
    — Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold / The Clouds that on his Weſtern Throne attend.
  2. Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. countable,uncountable
  3. 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. countable,uncountable
    — to put on the imperial purple
  4. Imperial power. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — 1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire He was born in the purple.
  5. Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. countable,uncountable
  6. The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. countable,uncountable
    — "Sure, some purple Owlsley."
  7. Purpura. countable,uncountable
  8. Earcockle, a disease of wheat. countable,uncountable
  9. Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). countable,uncountable
    — the banded purple
  10. A cardinalate. countable,uncountable
  11. Ellipsis of purple drank. US,abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis
    — Fishtailing out the parking lot leaving Magic / Sipping on the purple and the yellow, drinking magic
  12. Synonym of snakebite and black. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To turn purple in colour. intransitive
    — [T]he Capri cliffs, the tops of which were still pink against the purpling sky.
  2. To dye purple. transitive
    — Year after year unto her feet, / She lying on her couch alone, / Across the purpled coverlet, / The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]
  3. To clothe in purple. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a purple hue.
    — 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.
  2. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. US
    — purple state
  3. Mixed between social democrats and liberals. Belgium,Netherlands
  4. Imperial; regal.
    — Grovel on the earth: aye, hide / In the dust thy purple pride!
  5. Blood-red; bloody.
    — O may ſuch purple teares be alway ſhed
  6. Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
    — Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought
  7. Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.

词形变化

purples plural purpler comparative more purple comparative purplest superlative most purple superlative purples present,singular,third-person purpling participle,present purpled participle,past purpled past

词汇关系

反义词
nonpurple
衍生词
American purple gallinule aniline purple bee purple bepurple blurple born in the purple born to the purple bromcresol purple bromocresol purple Chinese purple common purple-glossed snake early-purple orchid empurple flying purple people eater flying purple people-eater French purple Han purple impurple line of purples liseran purple Okinawan purple potato once in a purple moon palatinate purple Perkin's purple purple airway purple-backed fairywren purple-backed sunbeam purple-backed thornbill purple bacteria purple-banded sunbird purple bar purple-bearded bee-eater Celebes bee-eater purple beech purple-bellied lory purple bird purple box purple-breasted cotinga purple-breasted sunbird purple-capped fruit dove purple cochoa purple copper ore purple coral purple-crested turaco purple-crowned fairy purple-crowned fairywren purple-crowned fairy-wren purple death purple dye murex purple emperor purple everlasting purple finch purple-fish purple gallinule purple-gaped honeyeater purple gas purple glory-of-the-sun purple-glossed snake purple glossy starling purple glove syndrome purple gold purple grackle purple guava purple hairstreak purple hat therapy Purple Hawke purple-headed starling purple-headed yogurt slinger Purple Heart purpleheart purple helmet purple heron purple honeycreeper purple indigobird purple ivory purple Jesus purple joe-pye weed purple judge purpleleaf purple lettuce purple loosestrife purplely Purpleman purple marshlocks purple martin purple meadowrue purple milkweed purple monkey dishwasher purple-naped lory purple-naped sunbird purple nasty purple needletail purpleness purple noise purple notice purple nurple purple ochre purple of Cassius purple of mollusca purple passage purple passion purple patch Purple Pedosaur purple pill purple pitcher plant purple plague purple prose purple quartz purple rice purple roller purple-rumped sunbird purple sandpiper purplescent purple shell purple shirt of sex purple sock purplespotted purple spurge purple squirrel purple starling purple state purple storm snail purple sulfur bacterium purple sunbird purple swamphen purple-tailed imperial pigeon purple team purple teamer purple three-awn grass purple-throated carib purple-throated cotinga purple-throated cuckooshrike purple-throated fruitcrow purple-throated mountaingem purple-throated sunangel purple-throated sunbird purple-throated woodstar purple toe syndrome purple tooth purple triangle purpletuft purple urine bag syndrome purple velvet plant purple vetch purplewash purplewashing purple-winged ground dove purple-winged roller purple wiregrass purplewood purplewort purple yam purple zone purplish purply purpureal raise to the purple Rebecca purple red-spotted purple regal purple retinal purple rise to the purple royal purple Schoenfeld's purple slate purple take the purple Tyrian purple unpurple velvet-purple coronet vision purple visual purple
相关词
porphyrogenite porphyrogeniture purpure rhodopsin secondary color

词源

词源 1
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
词源 2
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
词源 3
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
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