单词 | colour-mixer |
释义 | > as lemmascolour-mixer colour-mixer n. (a) a trough or churn used for mixing dyes or pigments (now rare); (b) a person who mixes pigments or paints to obtain particular shades of colour; (c) a colour top or colour wheel (colour wheel n. (b)) used esp. for studying a person's colour vision; cf. mixoscope n. ΚΠ 1774 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 12 Jan. With the lease will be sold..a colour-mixer, two colour-mills. 1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. I. 388/1 The proportions of each vary much according..to the fancy of the colour-mixer. 1872 All Year Round 16 Mar. 381/2 The great artist, Mr. Lascelles, to whom Harry had been colour-mixer, pupil, assistant, almost son. 1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. vii. 139 Mixoscope (colour-mixer). 1907 Pop. Mech. June 639 (caption) White lead and color mixers. 1969 Brit. Jrnl. Med. 26 281/1 Those subjects who had the best matches on the anomaloscope also had the best discrimination on the colour mixer. 2010 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 23 Jan. (Review section) 12 He was supporting himself working as a colour mixer for the Dulux paint company. < as lemmas |
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