cyan

«cyan» in Mova's school dictionary: a bright greenish-blue colour, like a clear tropical sea — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cyan, uncountable); adjective (cyan)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cyan is a bright greenish-blue colour, like a clear tropical sea. tree →

2) (science, printing) Cyan is one of the main colours of printer ink, together with magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons cyan appears in colour mixing: in light, green + blue light make cyan; in printing, cyan ink absorbs red light. Printers often need a new cyan cartridge. It tells the reader an exact shade of blue-green. Related colours: turquoise, aqua, teal.

examples

• The printer has run out of cyan ink. tree →
• Cyan is a mix of blue and green light. tree →
• She painted the sky cyan in her picture. tree →
• The swimming pool water looked cyan in the sun. tree →
• CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. tree →
• On the screen, cyan and red together make white light. tree →
• The cyan text was hard to read on the white page. tree →

note

Pronounced «SY-an». Uncountable when it is a colour name. Cyan is very close to «aqua» and «turquoise»; in screen colours, cyan and aqua are the same. In printing, CMY are the subtractive primary colours; in light, RGB (red, green, blue) are the additive primary colours, and cyan is the opposite of red.

In the corpora

• Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cyan» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.