What's the difference between purple and violet?

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.

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.