Definition of purple in English:

purple

noun ˈpəːp(ə)lˈpərpəl

mass noun

1A colour intermediate between red and blue.
紫色
the painting was mostly in shades of blue and purple
这幅画的主色调是蓝色和紫色。
Example sentencesExamples
- The colors are hypnotizing: the women are adorned with clothes of the deepest blues and purples and scorching reds and yellows.
- My vision swims, a collection of purples and blues collect in front of me, my head feeling filled with air and I stumble, reaching my arm out, grabbing onto the rail shifting my weight onto it.
- Being a purple foliage lover, I am also fascinated by the deep purples and purples with slate blue overtones that have been developed in the flower colors.
- The carpet was a mix of purples, blues greens and blacks.
- Her hair was in those thick braids again - this time twisted with ribbons in hundreds of shades greens and blues and purples.
- The sun had nearly finished setting, darker purples and blue were overtaking the sky.
- The emerging colour scheme in my garden is purples, silvers and blues.
- Suddenly, the doors opened not violently, and Landon walked in, fashioned in purples and blues.
- The flames ate hungrily, and erupted into strange hues of purples and blues.
- They come in all sorts of colors, blues and greens and purples.
- At the top of the stems there are tightly packed bracts of rich blues and purples surrounding clusters of purple-blue flowers in late spring and summer.
- This year we avoided the cheap boxes and instead went for new cultivars, all in blues and purples.
- Colors range from pinks, purples, lavenders, blues and whites to vivid scarlet and butter yellow.
- The sun was now slowly fading, the sky filled with blues purples and light pinks.
- Consider a combination of red, orange yellow and orange for a striking fall layout, or a combination of icy blues and purples for a frosty winter page.
- Beautiful oranges and yellows, with texture filled reds and purples, the blue starry sky blending through to the setting sun.
- The hazy, pastel colored memory faded and in bled blacks and reds and purples and blues.
- With each moment that passes, the sun's color shimmers and changes from startling purples and magentas to the soft hues of cornflower blue.
- Blues and purples also swept the sky, ending in a lush pink.
- The rainbows moved and danced along the rock, turning the ordinary gray colors into reds, yellows, greens, blues and purples.
1. 1.1 Purple clothing or material.
  紫色衣服（或料子）
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was, of course, wearing purple, a commemorative shirt from a Washington cultural fair or music festival or something.
  Maroon and purple were starred under wearable fur and leather coats.
  This person dressed always in blues and purples, softened by silvers.
  You'll find a full range of blues and purples, yellows, and snowy whites, plus exotic browns, red-browns, even off-blacks.
  I can wear any blue - like most people - and many greens and purples that tend to blue and not maroon.
  The whole show was black, black and black, with the occasional complimentary white, pink and purple.
  Only a handful of adventurous souls opt for bubblegum pink, orange and purple.
2A crimson dye obtained from some molluscs, formerly used for fabric worn by an emperor or senior magistrate in ancient Rome or Byzantium.
（从某些软体动物提取的）深红色染料（以前用来染制供古罗马或拜占庭的皇帝或高级官员穿的织物）
Example sentencesExamples
- The thing is, you must remember that both imperial purple and indigo are pigments, not dyes, a dye as to be soluble.
- The region around Tyre was well known in the ancient world for its purple dye (Tyrian purple) made from the murex grandaris mollusc.
1. 2.1the purple (in ancient Rome or Byzantium) clothing made from fabric dyed with Tyrian purple.
  （古罗马，拜占庭）紫色衣服
  Example sentencesExamples
  Still in ancient times, but in Rome, do you remember the imperial purple worn so proudly by the Roman toffs.
  Garments incorporating the imperial purple were particularly valued, and at all times their sale and export was fiercely supervised.
2. 2.2the purple (in ancient Rome) a position of rank, authority, or privilege.
  （古罗马）要职，高位，拥有特权的职位
  he was too young to assume the purple
  他太年轻，不宜身居要职。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Britain had long been a bolt-hole for pretenders to the imperial purple, and in times of crisis it had a history of seceding from the empire and looking after its own affairs.
3. 2.3the purple The scarlet official dress of a cardinal.
  （红衣主教的）大红袍

adjective ˈpəːp(ə)lˈpərpəl

Of a colour intermediate between red and blue.
紫色
a faded purple T-shirt
一件褪了色的紫色T恤衫。
Example sentencesExamples
- The variety ‘William III’ has double, rich purple flowers and chocolate hips and rarely tops 1m tall.
- She went back, and found another skirt, with a blue and purple flower imprint.
- They objected to the purple colour scheme, the spiky typeface and the use of stars, and asked for a prominent disclaimer making it clear the book was not officially endorsed.
- The broccoli now has a tiny purple flower head, so hopefully that will grow nicely and I can have some home grown!
- The purple flowers have a golden centre and their silky-hairy texture adds an extra dimension to their appeal.
- I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours.
- Apart from the low ratio of glass to metal and the extremely tight overhang, the purple colour of the car was also added to make it more appealing to the youth.
- Here is an abundance of wild flowers: the orchids are especially prevalent, and produce small pink / purple carpets of colour.
- We pass through pretty forests of birch and pine trees, moss covered rocks and a haze of blue and purple flowers.
- He also came across the purple flower, right, named Bougainvillea, that thrives in the hot climate.
- I called one our maids, Andrea, to go and put the blue and purple flowers in the drawing room.
- Yellow, white and purple flowers ringed a stage in front of a jagged mountain of dark wreckage.
- It makes the most delicious jam because of the richness of the purple colour and fruity taste.
- Greens and reds are typically caused by oxygen, while purple and blue colours are caused by nitrogen.
- The first thing I noticed in the area around me were tiny, white, yellow and purple flowers.
- Bring the pan of water back to the boil and cook the linguini for three minutes - it will take on the purple colour.
- It was draped in black and topped with red, white and purple flowers.
- This is a wonderful plant, very strong growing and with lovely dark purple flowers in July and August.
- The moors are a huge open, treeless upland area covered in heather whose purple flowers can be seen from space when they bloom in late August.
- It opens with a borsch soup, a smooth and tangy beet broth served with a side of sour cream that melts into the bowl, marbling the intense purple colour.
Synonyms
ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread

verb ˈpəːp(ə)lˈpərpəl

Make or become purple in colour.
（使）成紫色，（使）发紫
no object Edmund's cheeks purpled
埃德蒙的双颊发紫。
with object the neon was purpling the horizon above the highway
霓虹灯映红了公路前方的地平线。
Example sentencesExamples
- The hollyhocks are gone now, and the concrete is purpled by mulberries instead.
- His face had purpled to roughly the same shade as a ripe eggplant and he banged vigorously on his desk with a gavel.
- The sun, rising fat and slow made the darkened hat shop appear strange and purpled.
- The corners of her mouth were white with froth, and her tongue was purpling from the poison.
- In addition, his right shoulder was still purpled and swollen, making Annabelle worry if it were more than dislocated.
- Joe has clearly taken a beating, his eyes are purpled and swollen and there is blood running down his neck and back, yet it is he who is astride Colin, pounding his face in with blow after blow.
- Take their powdery beaks to the lilies, petals pursed, purpled and molded before they opened.
- Four to six leaf corn has been found with four to six leaves infested and the plants showing obvious leaf yellowing and purpling and some leaf dieback.
- Heading back, we come upon a group of kids walking with buckets full of berries, their lips and a wide ring beyond purpled with berry juice, their teeth appearing unnaturally white as they smile and wave.
- The skin that showed above her forearm archer's guards was already purpling.
- Her nose was all pink and purpled like marble, and her shirt still had blood o n it.
- There, drawn in ink that had purpled in antiquity like a bruise, was the Headless symbol.
- The other men start to tire of this sport, their shouting lowering in volume and finally stopping, but the first man continues, kicking and punching, your pale white stomach purpled with bruises.
- The red scratches combined with the egg-sized bump already purpling with the future bruise told her why.

Phrases

born in (or to) the purple

Born into a reigning family or privileged class.
出身王室（或特权阶级）
the hero, Simba, is born to the purple
Example sentencesExamples
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanov was the only child ‘born to the purple’, and she was a welcome change from the horror of the previous 18 months.
- He was one of twin sons born to Marcus Aurelius and Annia Galeria Faustina in August 161, the first emperor ‘born in the purple’.
- Somehow, I find that frank ‘I was born to the purple’ sort of elitism easier to stomach than their attitude.
- It is worth noting that he was clearly not born to the purple.

Derivatives

purpleness

noun

The gray faces lit up, effectively dulling the purpleness of the purple coat.
Example sentencesExamples
- As quickly as it came, all of the purpleness suddenly went away.
- I thought I needed a break from all the purpleness.
- ‘The purpleness is a form of branding,’ Denney says.
- The purple varieties can be quite beautiful, but they are far less vigorous growers and there has been a noticeable falloff in the purpleness of both the above varieties since their introduction.

purplish

adjective ˈpəːp(ə)lɪʃ

At his nether lip begins a dark purplish bruise that spreads to a little lower down almost reaching his chin.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a really attractive plant with dark purplish, green, crinkled leaves and sweet smelling lilac purple flowers, it is well worth growing.
- My room has dark green walls and a bluish brownish purplish carpet.
- Pretty clouds are being bruised purplish over mountains by the gathering rush of night.
- Nori, dark green to purplish black, doesn't only come in sheets for sushi.

purply

adjective ˈpəːp(ə)liˈpərp(ə)li

Having a purple tinge or colour.
a large purply bruise
Example sentencesExamples
- purply blue petals
- At the back of this planting, facing south, on either a wall or trellis plant the vine Vitis ‘Purpurea’, which in October is a wonderful rich purply red with bunches of tiny black grapes.
- Angelou's anger would have greater resonance if more pithily and less purply expressed.
- It brings me out in a rash of purply, clichéd prose, like part of the sky.

Origin

Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura 'purple', from Greek porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this.

Just as crimson is named after an insect, so purple is named after a shellfish, and at one time these two words described the same colour. The first thing to be described as purple was a crimson dye obtained from some molluscs, called porphyra in Greek, the source also of the name of the purple stone called porphyry (Late Middle English). The dye was rare and expensive and was used for colouring the robes of Roman emperors and magistrates. The actual colour of the dye varied widely, and over time the word came to mean the colour between red and blue that we now call purple. From the late 16th century purple has been used to mean ‘striking’ or ‘ornate’ in phrases such as purple prose or a purple patch. The latter term, describing an over-elaborate passage in a literary composition, is a translation of Latin purpureus pannus and comes from the Roman poet Horace's Ars Poetica: ‘Works of serious purpose and grand promise often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide’.

Definition of purple in US English:

purple

nounˈpərpəlˈpərpəl

1A color intermediate between red and blue.
紫色
the painting was mostly in shades of blue and purple
这幅画的主色调是蓝色和紫色。
Example sentencesExamples
- My vision swims, a collection of purples and blues collect in front of me, my head feeling filled with air and I stumble, reaching my arm out, grabbing onto the rail shifting my weight onto it.
- The sun had nearly finished setting, darker purples and blue were overtaking the sky.
- The hazy, pastel colored memory faded and in bled blacks and reds and purples and blues.
- The flames ate hungrily, and erupted into strange hues of purples and blues.
- The emerging colour scheme in my garden is purples, silvers and blues.
- The colors are hypnotizing: the women are adorned with clothes of the deepest blues and purples and scorching reds and yellows.
- Consider a combination of red, orange yellow and orange for a striking fall layout, or a combination of icy blues and purples for a frosty winter page.
- This year we avoided the cheap boxes and instead went for new cultivars, all in blues and purples.
- Her hair was in those thick braids again - this time twisted with ribbons in hundreds of shades greens and blues and purples.
- With each moment that passes, the sun's color shimmers and changes from startling purples and magentas to the soft hues of cornflower blue.
- Blues and purples also swept the sky, ending in a lush pink.
- Suddenly, the doors opened not violently, and Landon walked in, fashioned in purples and blues.
- Being a purple foliage lover, I am also fascinated by the deep purples and purples with slate blue overtones that have been developed in the flower colors.
- Beautiful oranges and yellows, with texture filled reds and purples, the blue starry sky blending through to the setting sun.
- Colors range from pinks, purples, lavenders, blues and whites to vivid scarlet and butter yellow.
- At the top of the stems there are tightly packed bracts of rich blues and purples surrounding clusters of purple-blue flowers in late spring and summer.
- The rainbows moved and danced along the rock, turning the ordinary gray colors into reds, yellows, greens, blues and purples.
- They come in all sorts of colors, blues and greens and purples.
- The carpet was a mix of purples, blues greens and blacks.
- The sun was now slowly fading, the sky filled with blues purples and light pinks.
1. 1.1 Purple clothing or material.
  紫色衣服（或料子）
  Example sentencesExamples
  This person dressed always in blues and purples, softened by silvers.
  I was, of course, wearing purple, a commemorative shirt from a Washington cultural fair or music festival or something.
  The whole show was black, black and black, with the occasional complimentary white, pink and purple.
  Only a handful of adventurous souls opt for bubblegum pink, orange and purple.
  You'll find a full range of blues and purples, yellows, and snowy whites, plus exotic browns, red-browns, even off-blacks.
  Maroon and purple were starred under wearable fur and leather coats.
  I can wear any blue - like most people - and many greens and purples that tend to blue and not maroon.
2. 1.2 A crimson dye obtained from some mollusks, formerly used for fabric worn by an emperor or senior magistrate in ancient Rome or Byzantium.
  （从某些软体动物提取的）深红色染料（以前用来染制供古罗马或拜占庭的皇帝或高级官员穿的织物）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The thing is, you must remember that both imperial purple and indigo are pigments, not dyes, a dye as to be soluble.
  The region around Tyre was well known in the ancient world for its purple dye (Tyrian purple) made from the murex grandaris mollusc.
3. 1.3the purple (in ancient Rome or Byzantium) clothing made from fabric dyed with Tyrian purple.
  （古罗马，拜占庭）紫色衣服
  Example sentencesExamples
  Still in ancient times, but in Rome, do you remember the imperial purple worn so proudly by the Roman toffs.
  Garments incorporating the imperial purple were particularly valued, and at all times their sale and export was fiercely supervised.
4. 1.4the purple (in ancient Rome) a position of rank, authority, or privilege.
  （古罗马）要职，高位，拥有特权的职位
  he was too young to assume the purple
  他太年轻，不宜身居要职。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Britain had long been a bolt-hole for pretenders to the imperial purple, and in times of crisis it had a history of seceding from the empire and looking after its own affairs.
5. 1.5the purple The scarlet official dress of a cardinal.
  （红衣主教的）大红袍

adjectiveˈpərpəlˈpərpəl

Of a color intermediate between red and blue.
紫色
a faded purple T-shirt
一件褪了色的紫色T恤衫。
Example sentencesExamples
- The variety ‘William III’ has double, rich purple flowers and chocolate hips and rarely tops 1m tall.
- Apart from the low ratio of glass to metal and the extremely tight overhang, the purple colour of the car was also added to make it more appealing to the youth.
- It was draped in black and topped with red, white and purple flowers.
- It opens with a borsch soup, a smooth and tangy beet broth served with a side of sour cream that melts into the bowl, marbling the intense purple colour.
- I called one our maids, Andrea, to go and put the blue and purple flowers in the drawing room.
- He also came across the purple flower, right, named Bougainvillea, that thrives in the hot climate.
- This is a wonderful plant, very strong growing and with lovely dark purple flowers in July and August.
- They objected to the purple colour scheme, the spiky typeface and the use of stars, and asked for a prominent disclaimer making it clear the book was not officially endorsed.
- The broccoli now has a tiny purple flower head, so hopefully that will grow nicely and I can have some home grown!
- Here is an abundance of wild flowers: the orchids are especially prevalent, and produce small pink / purple carpets of colour.
- I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours.
- Yellow, white and purple flowers ringed a stage in front of a jagged mountain of dark wreckage.
- The first thing I noticed in the area around me were tiny, white, yellow and purple flowers.
- She went back, and found another skirt, with a blue and purple flower imprint.
- We pass through pretty forests of birch and pine trees, moss covered rocks and a haze of blue and purple flowers.
- The moors are a huge open, treeless upland area covered in heather whose purple flowers can be seen from space when they bloom in late August.
- Greens and reds are typically caused by oxygen, while purple and blue colours are caused by nitrogen.
- Bring the pan of water back to the boil and cook the linguini for three minutes - it will take on the purple colour.
- The purple flowers have a golden centre and their silky-hairy texture adds an extra dimension to their appeal.
- It makes the most delicious jam because of the richness of the purple colour and fruity taste.
Synonyms
ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread

verbˈpərpəlˈpərpəl

Become or make purple in color.
（使）成紫色，（使）发紫
no object Ed's cheeks purpled
埃德蒙的双颊发紫。
with object the neon was purpling the horizon above the highway
霓虹灯映红了公路前方的地平线。
Example sentencesExamples
- Four to six leaf corn has been found with four to six leaves infested and the plants showing obvious leaf yellowing and purpling and some leaf dieback.
- Joe has clearly taken a beating, his eyes are purpled and swollen and there is blood running down his neck and back, yet it is he who is astride Colin, pounding his face in with blow after blow.
- In addition, his right shoulder was still purpled and swollen, making Annabelle worry if it were more than dislocated.
- Her nose was all pink and purpled like marble, and her shirt still had blood o n it.
- The corners of her mouth were white with froth, and her tongue was purpling from the poison.
- The other men start to tire of this sport, their shouting lowering in volume and finally stopping, but the first man continues, kicking and punching, your pale white stomach purpled with bruises.
- Take their powdery beaks to the lilies, petals pursed, purpled and molded before they opened.
- Heading back, we come upon a group of kids walking with buckets full of berries, their lips and a wide ring beyond purpled with berry juice, their teeth appearing unnaturally white as they smile and wave.
- The skin that showed above her forearm archer's guards was already purpling.
- The hollyhocks are gone now, and the concrete is purpled by mulberries instead.
- The sun, rising fat and slow made the darkened hat shop appear strange and purpled.
- His face had purpled to roughly the same shade as a ripe eggplant and he banged vigorously on his desk with a gavel.
- The red scratches combined with the egg-sized bump already purpling with the future bruise told her why.
- There, drawn in ink that had purpled in antiquity like a bruise, was the Headless symbol.

Phrases

born in (or to) the purple

Born into a reigning family or privileged class.
出身王室（或特权阶级）
Example sentencesExamples
- It is worth noting that he was clearly not born to the purple.
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanov was the only child ‘born to the purple’, and she was a welcome change from the horror of the previous 18 months.
- Somehow, I find that frank ‘I was born to the purple’ sort of elitism easier to stomach than their attitude.
- He was one of twin sons born to Marcus Aurelius and Annia Galeria Faustina in August 161, the first emperor ‘born in the purple’.

Origin

Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura ‘purple’, from Greek porphura, denoting mollusks that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this.

词汇	purple
释义	Definition of purple in English: purple noun ˈpəːp(ə)lˈpərpəl mass noun 1A colour intermediate between red and blue. 紫色 the painting was mostly in shades of blue and purple 这幅画的主色调是蓝色和紫色。 Example sentencesExamples The colors are hypnotizing: the women are adorned with clothes of the deepest blues and purples and scorching reds and yellows. My vision swims, a collection of purples and blues collect in front of me, my head feeling filled with air and I stumble, reaching my arm out, grabbing onto the rail shifting my weight onto it. Being a purple foliage lover, I am also fascinated by the deep purples and purples with slate blue overtones that have been developed in the flower colors. The carpet was a mix of purples, blues greens and blacks. Her hair was in those thick braids again - this time twisted with ribbons in hundreds of shades greens and blues and purples. The sun had nearly finished setting, darker purples and blue were overtaking the sky. The emerging colour scheme in my garden is purples, silvers and blues. Suddenly, the doors opened not violently, and Landon walked in, fashioned in purples and blues. The flames ate hungrily, and erupted into strange hues of purples and blues. They come in all sorts of colors, blues and greens and purples. At the top of the stems there are tightly packed bracts of rich blues and purples surrounding clusters of purple-blue flowers in late spring and summer. This year we avoided the cheap boxes and instead went for new cultivars, all in blues and purples. Colors range from pinks, purples, lavenders, blues and whites to vivid scarlet and butter yellow. The sun was now slowly fading, the sky filled with blues purples and light pinks. Consider a combination of red, orange yellow and orange for a striking fall layout, or a combination of icy blues and purples for a frosty winter page. Beautiful oranges and yellows, with texture filled reds and purples, the blue starry sky blending through to the setting sun. The hazy, pastel colored memory faded and in bled blacks and reds and purples and blues. With each moment that passes, the sun's color shimmers and changes from startling purples and magentas to the soft hues of cornflower blue. Blues and purples also swept the sky, ending in a lush pink. The rainbows moved and danced along the rock, turning the ordinary gray colors into reds, yellows, greens, blues and purples. 1.1 Purple clothing or material. 紫色衣服（或料子） Example sentencesExamples I was, of course, wearing purple, a commemorative shirt from a Washington cultural fair or music festival or something. Maroon and purple were starred under wearable fur and leather coats. This person dressed always in blues and purples, softened by silvers. You'll find a full range of blues and purples, yellows, and snowy whites, plus exotic browns, red-browns, even off-blacks. I can wear any blue - like most people - and many greens and purples that tend to blue and not maroon. The whole show was black, black and black, with the occasional complimentary white, pink and purple. Only a handful of adventurous souls opt for bubblegum pink, orange and purple. 2A crimson dye obtained from some molluscs, formerly used for fabric worn by an emperor or senior magistrate in ancient Rome or Byzantium. （从某些软体动物提取的）深红色染料（以前用来染制供古罗马或拜占庭的皇帝或高级官员穿的织物） Example sentencesExamples The thing is, you must remember that both imperial purple and indigo are pigments, not dyes, a dye as to be soluble. The region around Tyre was well known in the ancient world for its purple dye (Tyrian purple) made from the murex grandaris mollusc. 2.1the purple (in ancient Rome or Byzantium) clothing made from fabric dyed with Tyrian purple. （古罗马，拜占庭）紫色衣服 Example sentencesExamples Still in ancient times, but in Rome, do you remember the imperial purple worn so proudly by the Roman toffs. Garments incorporating the imperial purple were particularly valued, and at all times their sale and export was fiercely supervised. 2.2the purple (in ancient Rome) a position of rank, authority, or privilege. （古罗马）要职，高位，拥有特权的职位 he was too young to assume the purple 他太年轻，不宜身居要职。 Example sentencesExamples Britain had long been a bolt-hole for pretenders to the imperial purple, and in times of crisis it had a history of seceding from the empire and looking after its own affairs. 2.3the purple The scarlet official dress of a cardinal. （红衣主教的）大红袍 adjective ˈpəːp(ə)lˈpərpəl Of a colour intermediate between red and blue. 紫色 a faded purple T-shirt 一件褪了色的紫色T恤衫。 Example sentencesExamples The variety ‘William III’ has double, rich purple flowers and chocolate hips and rarely tops 1m tall. She went back, and found another skirt, with a blue and purple flower imprint. They objected to the purple colour scheme, the spiky typeface and the use of stars, and asked for a prominent disclaimer making it clear the book was not officially endorsed. The broccoli now has a tiny purple flower head, so hopefully that will grow nicely and I can have some home grown! The purple flowers have a golden centre and their silky-hairy texture adds an extra dimension to their appeal. I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours. Apart from the low ratio of glass to metal and the extremely tight overhang, the purple colour of the car was also added to make it more appealing to the youth. Here is an abundance of wild flowers: the orchids are especially prevalent, and produce small pink / purple carpets of colour. We pass through pretty forests of birch and pine trees, moss covered rocks and a haze of blue and purple flowers. He also came across the purple flower, right, named Bougainvillea, that thrives in the hot climate. I called one our maids, Andrea, to go and put the blue and purple flowers in the drawing room. Yellow, white and purple flowers ringed a stage in front of a jagged mountain of dark wreckage. It makes the most delicious jam because of the richness of the purple colour and fruity taste. Greens and reds are typically caused by oxygen, while purple and blue colours are caused by nitrogen. The first thing I noticed in the area around me were tiny, white, yellow and purple flowers. Bring the pan of water back to the boil and cook the linguini for three minutes - it will take on the purple colour. It was draped in black and topped with red, white and purple flowers. This is a wonderful plant, very strong growing and with lovely dark purple flowers in July and August. The moors are a huge open, treeless upland area covered in heather whose purple flowers can be seen from space when they bloom in late August. It opens with a borsch soup, a smooth and tangy beet broth served with a side of sour cream that melts into the bowl, marbling the intense purple colour. Synonyms ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread verb ˈpəːp(ə)lˈpərpəl Make or become purple in colour. （使）成紫色，（使）发紫 no object Edmund's cheeks purpled 埃德蒙的双颊发紫。 with object the neon was purpling the horizon above the highway 霓虹灯映红了公路前方的地平线。 Example sentencesExamples The hollyhocks are gone now, and the concrete is purpled by mulberries instead. His face had purpled to roughly the same shade as a ripe eggplant and he banged vigorously on his desk with a gavel. The sun, rising fat and slow made the darkened hat shop appear strange and purpled. The corners of her mouth were white with froth, and her tongue was purpling from the poison. In addition, his right shoulder was still purpled and swollen, making Annabelle worry if it were more than dislocated. Joe has clearly taken a beating, his eyes are purpled and swollen and there is blood running down his neck and back, yet it is he who is astride Colin, pounding his face in with blow after blow. Take their powdery beaks to the lilies, petals pursed, purpled and molded before they opened. Four to six leaf corn has been found with four to six leaves infested and the plants showing obvious leaf yellowing and purpling and some leaf dieback. Heading back, we come upon a group of kids walking with buckets full of berries, their lips and a wide ring beyond purpled with berry juice, their teeth appearing unnaturally white as they smile and wave. The skin that showed above her forearm archer's guards was already purpling. Her nose was all pink and purpled like marble, and her shirt still had blood o n it. There, drawn in ink that had purpled in antiquity like a bruise, was the Headless symbol. The other men start to tire of this sport, their shouting lowering in volume and finally stopping, but the first man continues, kicking and punching, your pale white stomach purpled with bruises. The red scratches combined with the egg-sized bump already purpling with the future bruise told her why. Phrases born in (or to) the purple Born into a reigning family or privileged class. 出身王室（或特权阶级） the hero, Simba, is born to the purple Example sentencesExamples Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanov was the only child ‘born to the purple’, and she was a welcome change from the horror of the previous 18 months. He was one of twin sons born to Marcus Aurelius and Annia Galeria Faustina in August 161, the first emperor ‘born in the purple’. Somehow, I find that frank ‘I was born to the purple’ sort of elitism easier to stomach than their attitude. It is worth noting that he was clearly not born to the purple. Derivatives purpleness noun The gray faces lit up, effectively dulling the purpleness of the purple coat. Example sentencesExamples As quickly as it came, all of the purpleness suddenly went away. I thought I needed a break from all the purpleness. ‘The purpleness is a form of branding,’ Denney says. The purple varieties can be quite beautiful, but they are far less vigorous growers and there has been a noticeable falloff in the purpleness of both the above varieties since their introduction. purplish adjective ˈpəːp(ə)lɪʃ At his nether lip begins a dark purplish bruise that spreads to a little lower down almost reaching his chin. Example sentencesExamples This is a really attractive plant with dark purplish, green, crinkled leaves and sweet smelling lilac purple flowers, it is well worth growing. My room has dark green walls and a bluish brownish purplish carpet. Pretty clouds are being bruised purplish over mountains by the gathering rush of night. Nori, dark green to purplish black, doesn't only come in sheets for sushi. purply adjective ˈpəːp(ə)liˈpərp(ə)li Having a purple tinge or colour. a large purply bruise Example sentencesExamples purply blue petals At the back of this planting, facing south, on either a wall or trellis plant the vine Vitis ‘Purpurea’, which in October is a wonderful rich purply red with bunches of tiny black grapes. Angelou's anger would have greater resonance if more pithily and less purply expressed. It brings me out in a rash of purply, clichéd prose, like part of the sky. Origin Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura 'purple', from Greek porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this. Just as crimson is named after an insect, so purple is named after a shellfish, and at one time these two words described the same colour. The first thing to be described as purple was a crimson dye obtained from some molluscs, called porphyra in Greek, the source also of the name of the purple stone called porphyry (Late Middle English). The dye was rare and expensive and was used for colouring the robes of Roman emperors and magistrates. The actual colour of the dye varied widely, and over time the word came to mean the colour between red and blue that we now call purple. From the late 16th century purple has been used to mean ‘striking’ or ‘ornate’ in phrases such as purple prose or a purple patch. The latter term, describing an over-elaborate passage in a literary composition, is a translation of Latin purpureus pannus and comes from the Roman poet Horace's Ars Poetica: ‘Works of serious purpose and grand promise often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide’. noun.1 phr. Definition of purple in US English: purple nounˈpərpəlˈpərpəl 1A color intermediate between red and blue. 紫色 the painting was mostly in shades of blue and purple 这幅画的主色调是蓝色和紫色。 Example sentencesExamples My vision swims, a collection of purples and blues collect in front of me, my head feeling filled with air and I stumble, reaching my arm out, grabbing onto the rail shifting my weight onto it. The sun had nearly finished setting, darker purples and blue were overtaking the sky. The hazy, pastel colored memory faded and in bled blacks and reds and purples and blues. The flames ate hungrily, and erupted into strange hues of purples and blues. The emerging colour scheme in my garden is purples, silvers and blues. The colors are hypnotizing: the women are adorned with clothes of the deepest blues and purples and scorching reds and yellows. Consider a combination of red, orange yellow and orange for a striking fall layout, or a combination of icy blues and purples for a frosty winter page. This year we avoided the cheap boxes and instead went for new cultivars, all in blues and purples. Her hair was in those thick braids again - this time twisted with ribbons in hundreds of shades greens and blues and purples. With each moment that passes, the sun's color shimmers and changes from startling purples and magentas to the soft hues of cornflower blue. Blues and purples also swept the sky, ending in a lush pink. Suddenly, the doors opened not violently, and Landon walked in, fashioned in purples and blues. Being a purple foliage lover, I am also fascinated by the deep purples and purples with slate blue overtones that have been developed in the flower colors. Beautiful oranges and yellows, with texture filled reds and purples, the blue starry sky blending through to the setting sun. Colors range from pinks, purples, lavenders, blues and whites to vivid scarlet and butter yellow. At the top of the stems there are tightly packed bracts of rich blues and purples surrounding clusters of purple-blue flowers in late spring and summer. The rainbows moved and danced along the rock, turning the ordinary gray colors into reds, yellows, greens, blues and purples. They come in all sorts of colors, blues and greens and purples. The carpet was a mix of purples, blues greens and blacks. The sun was now slowly fading, the sky filled with blues purples and light pinks. 1.1 Purple clothing or material. 紫色衣服（或料子） Example sentencesExamples This person dressed always in blues and purples, softened by silvers. I was, of course, wearing purple, a commemorative shirt from a Washington cultural fair or music festival or something. The whole show was black, black and black, with the occasional complimentary white, pink and purple. Only a handful of adventurous souls opt for bubblegum pink, orange and purple. You'll find a full range of blues and purples, yellows, and snowy whites, plus exotic browns, red-browns, even off-blacks. Maroon and purple were starred under wearable fur and leather coats. I can wear any blue - like most people - and many greens and purples that tend to blue and not maroon. 1.2 A crimson dye obtained from some mollusks, formerly used for fabric worn by an emperor or senior magistrate in ancient Rome or Byzantium. （从某些软体动物提取的）深红色染料（以前用来染制供古罗马或拜占庭的皇帝或高级官员穿的织物） Example sentencesExamples The thing is, you must remember that both imperial purple and indigo are pigments, not dyes, a dye as to be soluble. The region around Tyre was well known in the ancient world for its purple dye (Tyrian purple) made from the murex grandaris mollusc. 1.3the purple (in ancient Rome or Byzantium) clothing made from fabric dyed with Tyrian purple. （古罗马，拜占庭）紫色衣服 Example sentencesExamples Still in ancient times, but in Rome, do you remember the imperial purple worn so proudly by the Roman toffs. Garments incorporating the imperial purple were particularly valued, and at all times their sale and export was fiercely supervised. 1.4the purple (in ancient Rome) a position of rank, authority, or privilege. （古罗马）要职，高位，拥有特权的职位 he was too young to assume the purple 他太年轻，不宜身居要职。 Example sentencesExamples Britain had long been a bolt-hole for pretenders to the imperial purple, and in times of crisis it had a history of seceding from the empire and looking after its own affairs. 1.5the purple The scarlet official dress of a cardinal. （红衣主教的）大红袍 adjectiveˈpərpəlˈpərpəl Of a color intermediate between red and blue. 紫色 a faded purple T-shirt 一件褪了色的紫色T恤衫。 Example sentencesExamples The variety ‘William III’ has double, rich purple flowers and chocolate hips and rarely tops 1m tall. Apart from the low ratio of glass to metal and the extremely tight overhang, the purple colour of the car was also added to make it more appealing to the youth. It was draped in black and topped with red, white and purple flowers. It opens with a borsch soup, a smooth and tangy beet broth served with a side of sour cream that melts into the bowl, marbling the intense purple colour. I called one our maids, Andrea, to go and put the blue and purple flowers in the drawing room. He also came across the purple flower, right, named Bougainvillea, that thrives in the hot climate. This is a wonderful plant, very strong growing and with lovely dark purple flowers in July and August. They objected to the purple colour scheme, the spiky typeface and the use of stars, and asked for a prominent disclaimer making it clear the book was not officially endorsed. The broccoli now has a tiny purple flower head, so hopefully that will grow nicely and I can have some home grown! Here is an abundance of wild flowers: the orchids are especially prevalent, and produce small pink / purple carpets of colour. I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours. Yellow, white and purple flowers ringed a stage in front of a jagged mountain of dark wreckage. The first thing I noticed in the area around me were tiny, white, yellow and purple flowers. She went back, and found another skirt, with a blue and purple flower imprint. We pass through pretty forests of birch and pine trees, moss covered rocks and a haze of blue and purple flowers. The moors are a huge open, treeless upland area covered in heather whose purple flowers can be seen from space when they bloom in late August. Greens and reds are typically caused by oxygen, while purple and blue colours are caused by nitrogen. Bring the pan of water back to the boil and cook the linguini for three minutes - it will take on the purple colour. The purple flowers have a golden centre and their silky-hairy texture adds an extra dimension to their appeal. It makes the most delicious jam because of the richness of the purple colour and fruity taste. Synonyms ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread verbˈpərpəlˈpərpəl Become or make purple in color. （使）成紫色，（使）发紫 no object Ed's cheeks purpled 埃德蒙的双颊发紫。 with object the neon was purpling the horizon above the highway 霓虹灯映红了公路前方的地平线。 Example sentencesExamples Four to six leaf corn has been found with four to six leaves infested and the plants showing obvious leaf yellowing and purpling and some leaf dieback. Joe has clearly taken a beating, his eyes are purpled and swollen and there is blood running down his neck and back, yet it is he who is astride Colin, pounding his face in with blow after blow. In addition, his right shoulder was still purpled and swollen, making Annabelle worry if it were more than dislocated. Her nose was all pink and purpled like marble, and her shirt still had blood o n it. The corners of her mouth were white with froth, and her tongue was purpling from the poison. The other men start to tire of this sport, their shouting lowering in volume and finally stopping, but the first man continues, kicking and punching, your pale white stomach purpled with bruises. Take their powdery beaks to the lilies, petals pursed, purpled and molded before they opened. Heading back, we come upon a group of kids walking with buckets full of berries, their lips and a wide ring beyond purpled with berry juice, their teeth appearing unnaturally white as they smile and wave. The skin that showed above her forearm archer's guards was already purpling. The hollyhocks are gone now, and the concrete is purpled by mulberries instead. The sun, rising fat and slow made the darkened hat shop appear strange and purpled. His face had purpled to roughly the same shade as a ripe eggplant and he banged vigorously on his desk with a gavel. The red scratches combined with the egg-sized bump already purpling with the future bruise told her why. There, drawn in ink that had purpled in antiquity like a bruise, was the Headless symbol. Phrases born in (or to) the purple Born into a reigning family or privileged class. 出身王室（或特权阶级） Example sentencesExamples It is worth noting that he was clearly not born to the purple. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanov was the only child ‘born to the purple’, and she was a welcome change from the horror of the previous 18 months. Somehow, I find that frank ‘I was born to the purple’ sort of elitism easier to stomach than their attitude. He was one of twin sons born to Marcus Aurelius and Annia Galeria Faustina in August 161, the first emperor ‘born in the purple’. Origin Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura ‘purple’, from Greek porphura, denoting mollusks that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this. noun.1 phr.
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