magenta
IPA: mʌdʒˈɛntʌ
noun
- 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.
- A town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.
adjective
- having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
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Examples of "magenta" in Sentences
- In the glass, it's a bright ruby red with a thin magenta rim.
- I wrote my first story at age 3 in magenta crayon on green-bar computer paper!
- Two dress up in magenta dresses and gold-trimmed aprons with heavy pots strapped to their backs.
- If that's too severe and you are looking for simplicity with a hit of color, try the square-necked, front-pleated Gali wool dress with silk-blend trim in magenta (£ 1,250).
- Rooms fill with light and glow in magenta, green, and endless shades of white with subtle changes in variations as one moves from source to the margins of the enclosing space.
- -- creating normalized set, copy values from settable create table normalset (id int not null default 0, val char (8), key (id)); insert into normalset SELECT id, 'cyan' FROM settable WHERE s like '% cyan%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'yellow' FROM settable WHERE s like '% yellow%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'magenta' FROM settable WHERE s like '% magenta%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'black' FROM settable WHERE s like '% black%';
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