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purple

/pur-puhl/US // ˈpɜr pəl //UK // (ˈpɜːpəl) //

紫色,紫色的,紫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
    • : cloth or clothing of this hue, especially as formerly worn distinctively by persons of imperial, royal, or other high rank.
    • : the rank or office of a cardinal.
    • : the office of a bishop.
    • : imperial, regal, or princely rank or position.
    • : deep red; crimson.
    • : any of several nymphalid butterflies, as Basilarchia astyanax, having blackish wings spotted with red, or Basilarchia arthemis, having brown wings banded with white.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    pur·pler, pur·plest.

    • : of the color purple.
    • : imperial, regal, or princely.
    • : brilliant or showy.
    • : full of exaggerated literary devices and effects; marked by excessively ornate rhetoric: a purple passage in a novel.
    • : profane or shocking, as language.
    • : relating to or noting political or ideological diversity: purple politics; ideologically purple areas of the country.
  1. 1

    pur·pled, pur·pling.

    • : to make or become purple.

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Examples

  • However, the observations in purple exceeded four inches and launched into our boom scenario.

  • Schools that opened while they were in the red tier can actually open in the purple tier.

  • Schools that had not offered on-campus schooling for at least one entire grade level at least part of the week during the red tier cannot expand reopenings while in the purple tier – which San Diego County is in now.

  • On the ceiling of a small chamber in another Sulawesi cave, the researchers found a large pig painting — like the others, executed in red or dark red and purple mineral pigments — that dates to between 32,000 and 73,400 years ago.

  • Spearheaded by Stacey Abrams and her organization Fair Fight, together with many activist and grassroots organizations, Georgia turned a brilliant deep shade of blue, very close to purple, but blue nonetheless.

  • Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.

  • She says that every film she makes, she has to hit someone—The Color Purple, The Butler, and Selma.

  • Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah will never come anywhere close to being purple.

  • Here and there, sparingly, one of the dolls might be purple or green: “Rainbow Piets,” they call them.

  • Worse, when Richman woke up the next morning, her entire ear was purple.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • Its pages are filled with the purple gowns of kings and the scarlet trappings of the warrior.

  • She was in a soiled dressing gown of purple flannel, with several of the buttons off.

  • Wright's stain gives the nucleus a deep purple color and the cytoplasm a pale robin's-egg blue in typical cells.

  • Malarial parasites stain characteristically: the cytoplasm, sky-blue; the chromatin, reddish-purple.