magenta

«magenta» in Mova's school dictionary: a bright purplish-red or pinkish-purple colour — 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 (magenta, uncountable); adjective (magenta)

meaning for a pupil

1) Magenta is a bright purplish-red or pinkish-purple colour. tree →

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

sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons it is used in colour mixing: in light, red + blue light make magenta; in printing, magenta ink is a primary colour. It is named after the town of Magenta in Italy, where a battle took place in 1859, the year the dye was discovered. Phrases: «magenta ink», «bright magenta».

examples

• She painted the flowers bright magenta. tree →
• The printer needs a new magenta cartridge. tree →
• Red and blue light together make magenta. tree →
• My new scarf is magenta. tree →
• Mixing magenta and yellow ink makes red. tree →
• The sunset sky was streaked with magenta. tree →

note

Uncountable when it is the colour name. Pronounced «muh-JEN-tuh». Interesting fact: there is no single wavelength of light for magenta; our brains make it when we see red and blue light together. Similar: fuchsia, pink, purple.

In the corpora

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

Trees and pragmatics

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