What's the difference between mauve and purple?

Mauve


Definition:

  • (n.) A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
  • (2) I pull out a grape-flavoured one in bright mauve and eye Clapper’s Advanced Vaping System enviously.
  • (3) I feel a little bit cool until an elderly woman on a mobility scooter laughs in my face, reminding me I’m a 40-year-old man sucking on a sparkly mauve pretend cigarette.
  • (4) We can help by looking for this blue-with-a-hint-of-mauve butterfly (the female is more brown than blue and harder to identify) during the last weekend of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count .
  • (5) Baghdadi wonders whether to start wearing a big turban, maybe mauve or even pistachio with a silver pin.
  • (6) Gili said this was mostly surprising because the mauve stingers were close to beaches.
  • (7) It wasn't long ago we were watching Milan Jovanavic and Paul Konchesky..." 5.01pm GMT "Jacob isn't it nice to see a referee in a nice sensible old-school black strip, instead of dressing up like an attention-getting circus clown in mauve or a wretched shade of yellow?"
  • (8) There was an Iranian woman in a wheelchair, she was about 80, wearing a little mauve cardigan, and they were yelling at her – “Arabic?
  • (9) The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca , along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
  • (10) Galbraith drew attention to the paradox of private affluence amid public squalor, citing the family that takes its mauve and cerise, air-conditioned, power-steered and power-braked car out for a drive, passes through cities that are badly paved and made hideous by litter and blighted buildings, and then picnics on exquisitely packaged food by a polluted stream.
  • (11) Her make-up tends to the mauve but otherwise she is all in black and white, in contrast to her life.
  • (12) His eyes were level with the mauve bougainvillea draped over the countertop.
  • (13) I was preemptively disappointed, setting out on the tandem for the mauve shadow of the hills, to know that I would in all likelihood see no newborn calves, that our adventure would have a different character to the adventure undertaken by my brother and my father.
  • (14) In The Spell, Alex – who has "contracted the occasional ailment of the late developer, an aversion to his own past" – recalls his horror of the country town in which he'd grown up, with its "old outfitters selling brown and mauve clothes [and] photos of fetes and beauty contests and British Legion dinners in the window of the newspaper office, which might almost have been the window of a museum".
  • (15) Think how good that shows our Lord to be, because what if the trees had been mauve, or electric blue?
  • (16) So many greys: opalescent, dove, lead, battleship, cadet, charcoal, glaucous, that greyish mauve called Mountbatten pink, medium grey, dark medium grey, Gainsborough grey, and more besides.
  • (17) The children's bedrooms feature retro movie posters and plain mauve bedspreads, and the grinning, tousle-haired kids are pictured playing with bespoke wooden train sets that their fathers have carved out of an oak branch taken from the back garden.
  • (18) 5-Hydroxyhaemopyrrole lactam, the 'mauve factor' reported in the urine of schizophrenics and porphyrics was found to inhibit electrically-stimulated contractions of guinea-pig ileum only at high concentrations (ID50 = 8.5 mM).
  • (19) While attempting synthesis, the young chemist, William H. Perkin, stumbled on mauve purple, the first aniline dye.

Purple


Definition:

  • (n.) A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.
  • (n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.
  • (n.) Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.
  • (n.) A cardinalate. See Cardinal.
  • (n.) Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.
  • (n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.
  • (n.) See Purpura.
  • (n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
  • (a.) Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
  • (a.) Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
  • (a.) Blood-red; bloody.
  • (v. t.) To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also purple sulfur bacteria lowered BOD levels as demonstrated by the growth of T. floridana in sterilized sewage.
  • (2) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
  • (3) The cases found positive by IHC showed brownish nuclei of the epithelium and those positive in ISH showed purple to purplish-black nuclei.
  • (4) From green (low) to purple (high) Putin ordered Alexander Litvinenko murder, inquiry into death told Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Metropolitan Police’s 3D graphic showing polonium contamination of the table and chair
  • (5) One lattice was trigonal, as in purple membrane, and showed a high-resolution electron diffraction pattern from glucose-sustained patches.
  • (6) The effect of o-phenanthroline suggests that it interacts directly with the primary electron acceptor of Photosystem II in a manner similar to that reported previously for the primary electron acceptor in purple photosynthetic bacteria.
  • (7) 262 (1987) 2895-2899], a hydroxyneurosporene methyltransferase, which is involved in carotenoid biosynthesis in the purple nonsulfur bacterium, Rhodobacter capsulatus [Armstrong et al., Mol.
  • (8) A difference density map obtained from data on purple membrane films at 15% relative humidity in 2H2O, and the same sample after complete drying in vacuum, revealed that about eight of these protons belong to four water molecules.
  • (9) Two reagents, starch-iodine complex (SIC) and a mixed pH indicator, containing bromocresol purple and BTB (2:1) used earlier for the PNC-based ELISA, were compared with BTB for utilization in the PNC-based ELISA.
  • (10) Approximately 30% of the C. neoformans strains produced large amounts of the pink (purple after 6 days) pigment in the absence of light whereas 70% of the Cryptococcus neoformans strains, as well as C. laurentii, C. albidus, C. diffluens, and C. albicans also produced the pink pigment with light being required for significant early production (2--6 days).
  • (11) Southampton are in their not-particularly-popular all-red number, while Liverpool sport their not-particularly-popular purple-white-and-black quilted shirt.
  • (12) These graphics were colour-coded green, yellow, red and purple; purple represented the highest level of contamination, showing levels of 10,000 radiation counts per second and above.
  • (13) The kinetics of purple membrane dark adaptation were studied at pH 5 and 7, in the presence and absence of the nonionic detergent Triton X-100.
  • (14) We have tested the ligands bromcresol purple and picrate and used ligand-ion selective electrodes to monitor free ligand concentration in a homogeneous solution.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prince celebrating his birthday and the release of Purple Rain in Minneapolis in 1984.
  • (16) On exposure of this material to the radiation from a medium-pressure mercury lamp, the fluorescence gradually disappeared, and a red-purple product was formed.
  • (17) In contrast, the thickness of the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium with its densely packed less-corrugated structure exhibits very little variation in thickness in coated preparations and the values obtained are in good agreement with x-ray data.
  • (18) Attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing this week, Barack Obama wore, along with other participants, a bright purple silky Chinese-style shirt .
  • (19) Modification of more than 3-4 tyrosine residues per bacteriorhodopsin monomer caused a decrease in the light-induced proton-pumping ability of purple membrane in synthetic lipid vesicles, loss of the sharp X-ray-diffraction patterns characteristic of the crystal lattice, loss of the absorbance maximum at 560 nm, and change in the buoyant density of the membrane.
  • (20) We found that bromocresol purple is not a specific reagent for albumin, but that serum proteins in the alpha-, beta-, and gamma-globulin fractions also react with this dye.

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