purple
part of speech
adjective (purple, purpler, purplest); noun (purple)
meaning for a pupil
1) Purple is a colour you get by mixing red and blue, like grapes, plums or violets. tree →
2) Purple was once a colour worn by kings and queens, because the dye was very costly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a colour that sorts things into groups to count or compare; parts add up to the whole. In art: mix red and blue paint to make purple. In science: some vegetables like red cabbage and beetroot are purple. Phrases: dark purple, light purple, purple with rage, go purple in the face.
examples
- There are 6 purple and 9 yellow balloons. tree →
- How many more red beads than purple beads? tree →
- She has 14 crayons; 3 are purple. tree →
- Each purple box holds 8 pens. tree →
- Mix red and blue paint to make purple. tree →
- Grapes can be green or purple. tree →
- Her favourite colour is purple. tree →
- Violets are small purple flowers. tree →
note
Colour words are adjectives (a purple hat) and nouns (purple is my favourite). Light purple is also called violet or lilac. A colour that makes groups; parts add up to the whole. No clue by itself.
In the corpora
- Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering at people for it is unkind.
- They came from the cold Andes mountains of South America, where thousands of purple, red and knobbly kinds still grow.
- Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice.
- Universal indicator mixes several dyes, so each pH gets its own colour, a whole rainbow from red to purple.
- Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «purple» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.