What's the difference between mauve and violet?

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.

Violet


Definition:

  • (n.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
  • (n.) The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
  • (n.) In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
  • (n.) Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
  • (2) Transition of the dye into the carbinol form is in water extremely slow, but is greatly accelerated in the presence of an organic phase, at least for malachite green and brilliant green, but not for crystal violet and pararosaniline.
  • (3) The spectra were obtained with a variety of excitation wavelengths, spanning the UV, violet, and yellow-green regions of the absorption spectrum, and at temperatures of 30 and 200 K. The RR data indicate that the structures of the bacteriochlorin pigments in RCs from Rb.
  • (4) Polarization microscopic studies proved that Levafix Red Violet E-2BL is bound to well-oriented fibrous proteins in glia fibers.
  • (5) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
  • (6) The persistency of elution over long time after subsequent transfer to fresh water was calculated at 210 nm absorbance with ultra violet spectrometer.
  • (7) Eliminating the lymphocytes from ultra-violet radiated blood specimens, we observed a decreased effect by this retransfused blood on the whole blood viscosity after 9 radiations to 18%.
  • (8) After 3 days, marked lesions were noted in SNPR and GP as seen with cresyl violet staining.
  • (9) For quantitative measurement of Coli and Coliform microorganisms five different culture media were used (Endoagar, Hexachlorophene Endoagar, Desoxycholatcitrat Agar, Violet Red Bile Agar and Brilliant Green Broth).
  • (10) A complex of diagnostic and therapeutic measures, including the establishment of indications for operative treatment, development of tactics, use of ++physico-technical methods (ultrasound study, rheography, electrocardiography, ++roentgeno-contrast angiography, ultra-violet blood irradiation, electromyostimulation) was developed.
  • (11) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
  • (12) In addition, a number of antiparasitic agents have been shown to exert their actions through a free radical metabolism: nitro compounds used against trypanosomatids, anaerobic protozoa and helminths; crystal violet used in blood banks to prevent blood transmission of Chagas' disease; the antimalarial primaquine, chloroquinine, and quinhasou; and quinones active in vitro and in vivo against different parasites.
  • (13) Ultra-violet and infra-red rays are inactive on the autonomic retina and on the hypothalamus.
  • (14) Studies in this country more than 20 years ago implicating ultra-violet light as a factor in the aetiology of malignant melanoma are being ratified by epidemiologic studies in the United States.
  • (15) One of these receptor pigments is a blue-light receptor with positive action; the other is a violet-red-light receptor which can operate far below the photosynthetic threshold and exerts a negative regulation.
  • (16) These organisms tolerated concentrations of crystal violet and ethyl violet about 100-fold higher at pH 5.0 than at pH 9.0.
  • (17) After incubation, the surviving cells were fixed with methanol and stained with crystal violet.
  • (18) Cellular proliferation on the crystal violet staining.
  • (19) Mutant W 1421 mostly studied shows the following phenotypic properties not found in the wild-type: (1) The growth is hypersensitive to various antibiotics, detergents and dyes which differ remarkably in their chemical structure and antibacterial action-mechanism, (2) the cells can be easily solubilized by 0;05% Sodium-dodecyl-sulfate, (3) the cells allow the adsorption of the rough-mutant specific Salmonella phage 6SR; (4) strong cellular binding of crystal violet, (5) agglutination of the cells in 0.3% auramin solution and (6) reduced formation of red pigment.
  • (20) On the other hand, the CRU emails hardly suggest that the scientists are shrinking violets.

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