pearl vs purple

pearl

noun
  • A light-colored tern. 

  • Something precious. 

  • A fish allied to the turbot; the brill. 

  • A whitish speck or film on the eye. 

  • A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application. 

  • Nacre, or mother-of-pearl. 

  • One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler. 

  • A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery. 

  • A fringe or border. 

  • A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making. 

  • The clitoris. 

verb
  • To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains. 

  • To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence. 

  • To resemble pearl or pearls. 

  • To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff. 

  • To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. 

  • Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner. 

  • To hunt for pearls 

purple

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • 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. 

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

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

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