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Synonyms for pigment

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for pigment

something that imparts color

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Synonyms for pigment

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Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the mightiest ale, the richest morat, the most sparkling cider, the most odoriferous pigments, upon the board; fill the largest horns* Templars and Abbots
"I wouldn't lay fingers on your dirty pigments. Succeed beyond your most sanguine expectations, yet you will always fetch up against the shadow.
His experiments covered all sorts Of pigments, such as lamp-blacks, tars, carbonized vegetable matters, soots of oils and fats, and the various carbonized animal substances.
Different shades of black pigments were brushed on it.
His eyes were yellow and muddy, as though Nature had run short on pigments and squeezed together the dregs of all her tubes.
To which Sancho made answer, "By the living God, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, I cannot endure or bear with patience some of the things that your worship says; and from them I begin to suspect that all you tell me about chivalry, and winning kingdoms and empires, and giving islands, and bestowing other rewards and dignities after the custom of knights-errant, must be all made up of wind and lies, and all pigments or figments, or whatever we may call them; for what would anyone think that heard your worship calling a barber's basin Mambrino's helmet without ever seeing the mistake all this time, but that one who says and maintains such things must have his brains addled?
Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig.
The Karawang Plant's key advantage is its integrated production capabilities, which encompass everything from phthalocyanine crude (pigment intermediates) for its own use to pigments for sale to customers.
Paint and coatings manufacturers are big users of pigments. Even though inorganic pigments are known to exhibit elastic properties and have uses in applications that require metallic finishes, pigment makers are beginning to reduce the use of lead compounds in specialized industrial paints, according to Technavio.
The exercises outline step-by-step procedures designed to explore color theory, pigments and pigment loadings, techniques for matching existing colors and creating new ones, variables that can affect the final color of a concrete product, and the various types of pigment metering systems available in the marketplace.
Other inorganic and organic pigments only account for a small share on total global pigment market, registering an amount of 1 million tonnes.
Yet the technology behind colorants does much more than deliver color: pigment contributes to a coating's durability, lightfastness, and opacity.