Magenta vs. Pink

See fuchsin.

Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.

A purplish red, one of the subtractive primary colors.

Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as sweet William, often cultivated for their showy, fragrant, usually pink, red, or white flowers. Also called dianthus.

A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.

Any of several other plants in the pink family, such as the wild pink.

Having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

A flower of any of these plants.

An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; - so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

The highest or best degree

The purplish-red color of magenta.

Light-colored trousers formerly worn as part of the winter semidress uniform by US Army officers.

A dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta

The scarlet coat worn by fox hunters.

A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

(Slang)A pinko.

Deep purplish red

A small sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed stern and an overhanging transom.

Of the color pink.

(Slang)Having moderately leftist political opinions.

To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick.

To decorate with a perforated pattern.

To cut with pinking shears.

(regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.

(regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.

A narrow boat.

(obsolete) A small hole made by puncturing something, as with a rapier, dagger, or pinking iron.

(obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.

(obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.

Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

(dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.

(color) The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.

Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.

(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.

(slang) The vagina or vulva.

(historical) Any of various lake#Etymology 4 pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.

To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.

To prick with a sword.

To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

(intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.

(transitive) To turn (something) pink.

(transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).

Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.

(obsolete) To wink; to blink.

Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

Having conjunctivitis.

(obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.

(informal) Relating to women or girls.

(informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.

(obsolete) Half-shut; winking.

A vessel with a very narrow stern; - called also pinky.

A stab.

A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; - so called from the common color of the flower.

Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

The European minnow; - so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

To wink; to blink.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

To choose; to cull; to pick out.

Half-shut; winking.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

A light shade of red

Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early;

Cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing

Of a light shade of red