(n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
(n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of volatile oils of lavender, monarda, and basil on the course of experimental atherosclerosis was studied in rabbit experiments.
(2) People often come to Provence just to see the lavender."
(3) The sedative properties of the essential oil of Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Miller) and of its main constituents--linalool and linalyl acetate--were investigated in mice followed up in a series of experimental procedures.
(4) Perhaps they'll have to CGI old footage of Lavender into the scenes with Jones and Nighy.
(5) It looked like a banana split to me,” Lavender told the Birmingham Mail .
(6) I’m just working through my hobbies.” In the meantime, he’s just finished filming a one-off drama about the making of Dad’s Army , in which he plays Ian (Private Pike) Lavender.
(7) The culprit is a mini cicada called a cicadelle which French lavender producers believe has proliferated because of hotter, drier summers, blamed on global warming.
(8) I sat quietly wearing it and nobody really noticed.” Lavender, one of the few surviving cast members from the original series, has a small role as Brigadier Pritchard in the film , which stars Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson.
(9) Examinations of the basic material for removable dentures, coated with rose, lavender, sage wax evidence that such coating essentially reduces residual methylmetacrylate migration and its side effect on the denture bed tissues, and improves the hygienic characteristics of dentures.
(10) On set to shoot a cameo in the movie, Lavender, 68, was struck by lemon additions on the scarf worn by Blake Harrison, who plays Pike.
(11) Lavender was 22 in 1968, when he got the part of Pike, joining a cast of already venerable and respected thesps – including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and John Laurie – in his first substantial professional role.
(12) Some of them may now house galleries and ice-cream parlours that sell strawberry and lavender sorbet, but family businesses such as Schicketanz butchers and Seidel’s bakery will keep the area grounded.
(13) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(14) There are around 30 types of lavender, producing flowers of varying colours including purple, pink and white.
(15) Scientists are now looking for lavender varieties resistant to the micro-bacterium.
(16) A succession of winners made amusing and self-deprecating speeches – Lord Falconer (Oldie slimmer of the year) , Ian Lavender (Stupid Oldie Boy of the year) – though the warmest applause was for Bridget Riley (Stripe Artist of the year) who won everyone’s heart by her touching sincerity.
(17) France has 1,700 lavender producers working 16,000 hectares of lavandin, along with another 4,000 hectares of strictly controlled "pure" lavender.
(18) Returning to the world of Harry Potter, the character of Lavender Brown was recast from a black actor in the first films to a white actor just in time for her to become a romantic prospect for Ron Weasley.
(19) This mummy's boy, along with a bunch of doddery gents, may have constituted Blighty's laughable last line of defence against Nazi invasion, but there is nothing wimpish about Lavender's handshake.
(20) After playing Herbert Pocket, in Lean's Great Expectations (1946), and Fagin, in Oliver Twist (1948), Guinness went on to a series of glorious Ealing comedies - perhaps most memorably as the bankteller-turned-robber Henry Holland in Charles Crichton's The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he was nominated for an Oscar, and as the criminal Professor Marcus, in Alexander Mackendrick's The Ladykillers (1955).
Magenta
Definition:
(n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rf values of the analogs were for pararosaniline, 0.54; rosaniline, 0.41; magenta II, 0.31; new fuchsin, 0.19.
(2) Red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, and white were presented on the CRT.
(3) PAS adds to the cytoplasm a diffuse magenta coloration; and because it is diastase-resistant, less brilliant than that of mucus but more so than bronchiolar cell secretions, and finer textured than lysosomal staining of other cells present, the effect is to highlight small-granule cells whether solitary or in clusters.
(4) Monochromatic targets presented at 30 degrees excentricity on orange, magenta and blue backgrouds are used.
(5) Groups of Syrian golden hamsters were treated with magenta, paramagenta, or phenyl-beta-napthylamine intragastrically, twice weekly for life at maximum tolerated doses.
(6) A magenta-green nulling procedure was used to assess the aftereffect.
(7) Within half an hour there was a huge piece of artwork, in glowing cyan and magenta, on the wall of a former police station.
(8) Smoking habits of 882 employees of Magenta general hospital (province of Milan) (135 doctors, 594 nurses and 153 technicians and clerical staff) were investigated in May 1986, by means of a self-administered questionnaire (response rate 84%).
(9) We prise them away from painting their toes with Midnight Magenta.
(10) It is distinguished by small, sausage-shaped gametocytes (x 10.4 by 4.6 mu), growing schizonts that often contain a noticeable digestive vacuole with the contents partially visible, and striking spherical or bouquet-shaped segmenters whose precise merozoite numbers are difficult to discern (about 22-32) because of an intensely staining magenta or rose-colored substance in the matrix of the surrounding vacuole.
(11) Subgross stereomicroscopic examination of alcian blue and hematoxylin-stained gastric mucosae allowed clear distinction of complete and incomplete intestinal metaplasia types as white (with or without purple hue) and purple foci, respectively, against the background magenta areas of non-intestinalized mucosa.
(12) Magenta II and New Fuchsin) usually found in Basic Fuchsin have been applied as chemically pure dyes to the Feulgen-technique.
(13) In Liverpool, one housing provider, Magenta Living, has admitted that "with changes to welfare benefits there is very little prospect of letting upper three-bedroom maisonettes in the current climate".
(14) For large increments, thresholds on photopic yellow and magenta backgrounds indicated the additive influence of 'blue' and 'green' cones.
(15) However, in the presence of silver nitrate, only homocystine reacts to produce a magenta color.
(16) In evaluating LV ejection fraction, the correlation coefficients between B-color images and angiography (temperature r = 0.93, magenta r = 0.93, rainbow r = 0.92) were slightly higher than that between the gray-scale image and angiography (r = 0.85) (p less than 0.05).
(17) Deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, several synthetic polynucleotides and polyvinylsulfate all convert buffered solutions of basic fuchsin and formaldehyde from a magenta to a purple color at ambient temperature.
(18) It will attract attention and will be different from the normal thing of people shouting down the megaphone … Is it not magenta?
(19) A small monochromatic light, 476 nm on orange, 551 nm on magenta and 621 nm on blue, is flashed at 3 cps-1 on the centre of the targets.
(20) Cyanophils stain either magenta red (gonadotropes) or blue (thyrotropes).