Found 3 items, similar to pink.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pink
pink
adj : of a light shade of red [syn:
pinkish]
pink
n 1: a light shade of red
2: any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus
cultivated for their fragrant flowers [syn:
garden pink]
pink
v 1: make light, repeated taps on a surface;
“he was tapping his
fingers on the table impatiently” [syn:
tap,
rap,
knock]
2: sound like a car engine that is firing too early;
“the car
pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline”;
“The car pinked
when the ignition was too far retarded” [syn:
ping,
knock]
3: cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pink
Pink
\Pink\, n. [D. pink.] (Naut.)
A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also
pinky.
--Sir W. Scott.
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Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern.
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Pink
\Pink\, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with
the eyes.]
To wink; to blink. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
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Pink
\Pink\, a.
Half-shut; winking. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Pink
\Pink\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Pinked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pinking.] [OE. pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form
of pick.]
1. To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth
or paper, in small scallops or angles.
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2. To stab; to pierce as with a sword. --Addison.
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3. To choose; to cull; to pick out. [Obs.] --Herbert.
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Pink
\Pink\, n.
A stab. --Grose.
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Pink
\Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the
petals were picked out. Cf.
Pink, v. t.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
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2. 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. --Dryden.
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3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection
of something.
“The very pink of courtesy.” --Shak.
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4. (Zo["o]l.) The European minnow; -- so called from the
color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.]
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Bunch pink is
Dianthus barbatus.
China pink, or
Indian pink. See under
China.
Clove pink is
Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which
carnations are derived.
Garden pink. See
Pheasant's eye.
Meadow pink is applied to
Dianthus deltoides; also, to
the ragged robin.
Maiden pink,
Dianthus deltoides.
Moss pink. See under
Moss.
Pink needle, the pin grass; -- so called from the long,
tapering points of the carpels. See
Alfilaria.
Sea pink. See
Thrift.
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Pink
\Pink\, a.
Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink
(see 6th
Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
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Pink eye (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of
ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of
the eyeball.
Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of
(stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a
mordant for madder and cochineal.
Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is
covered with a pink pigment.
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