cream vs purple

cream

adj
  • Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour. 

noun
  • Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. 

  • The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat. 

  • The best part of something. 

  • The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. 

  • The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream). 

  • A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer. 

  • A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment) 

  • A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream. 

  • Semen. 

verb
  • To furnish with, or as if with, cream. 

  • To gather or form cream. 

  • To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. 

  • To ejaculate (used of either gender). 

  • To obliterate, to defeat decisively. 

  • To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream. 

  • To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream. 

  • To take off the best or choicest part of. 

  • To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency. 

  • To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice). 

purple

adj
  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. 

  • Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session. 

  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. 

  • Mixed between social democrats and liberals. 

  • Imperial; regal. 

  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. 

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

noun
  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). 

  • Purpura. 

  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. 

  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. 

  • Earcockle, a disease of wheat. 

  • A cardinalate. 

  • A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. 

  • Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. 

  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. 

  • Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings. 

verb
  • To clothe in purple. 

  • To dye purple. 

  • To turn purple in colour. 

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