pigment

Noun
  1. Dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) (synset 115014387)
    is a type of: color, coloring material, colour, colouring material - any material used for its color
    subtypes:
    • chlorophyl, chlorophyll - any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms
    • bacteriochlorophyll - a substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants
    • phycobilin - water-soluble proteinaceous pigments found in red algae and cyanobacteria
    • phycoerythrin - red pigment in red algae
    • phycocyanin - blue pigment in algae
    • titania, titanic oxide, titanium dioxide, titanium oxide - a white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability
    • cobalt blue, cobalt ultramarine - greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of cobalt oxide and alumina
    • earth color - a colored mineral used as a pigment
    • mosaic gold, stannic sulfide - a yellow pigment sometimes suspended in lacquer
    • carotenoid - any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals
    • animal pigment - pigment occurring in animals
    • cerulean blue - light greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of oxides of cobalt and tin
    • chrome green - any of a class of green pigments consisting of chrome yellow and iron blue
    • hooker's green - green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge
    • chrome yellow - any of several yellow pigments consisting of normal lead chromate and other lead compounds
    • bister, bistre - a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
    • flavonoid - any of a large class of plant pigments having a chemical structure based on or similar to flavone
    • indian red - a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
    • ivory black - a black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil
    • iron blue, prussian blue - any of various blue pigments
    • payne's gray, payne's grey - any pigment that produces a greyish to dark greyish blue
    • alizarin, alizarine - an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing
    • bole - a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
    • lake - any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
    • lake - a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
    • orange - any pigment producing the orange color
    • water-color, water-colour, watercolor, watercolour - water-soluble pigment
    • retinal, retinene - either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light
    • paris green - a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate
    • sepia - rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes
    • porphyrin - any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues
    • haem, haemitin, hematin, heme, protoheme - a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds
    • haemosiderin, hemosiderin - a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism
    • ultramarine, ultramarine blue - blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli
    • photopigment - a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina
    • cadmium yellow - pigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orange
    • cupric acetate, verdigris - a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment
    • ceruse, lead carbonate, white lead - a poisonous white pigment that contains lead
    • chinese white, zinc white - a white pigment used in house paints; consists of zinc oxide
    substance meronym: paint, 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
  2. Any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color (synset 115015290)
    is a type of: color, coloring material, colour, colouring material - any material used for its color
  3. 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 (synset 103880896)
    "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"
    is a type of:
    subtypes:
    • acrylic, acrylic paint - used especially by artists
    • antifouling paint - a paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces
    • coat of paint - a layer of paint covering something else
    • distemper - paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
    • enamel - a paint that dries to a hard glossy finish
    • encaustic - a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application
    • finger paint, fingerpaint - paint that has the consistency of jelly
    • house paint, housepaint - paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house
    • oil paint - paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle
    • semigloss - a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat
    • spray paint - paint applied with a spray gun
    • water-base paint - paint in which water is used as the vehicle
    substance holonym: pigment - dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
    same as: paint
Verb
  1. Acquire pigment;
    Become colored or imbued (synset 200288152)
    is a type of: hue - take on color or become colored
  2. Color or dye with a pigment (synset 200288018)
    "pigment a photograph"
    is a type of: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize - add color to

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