| 单词 | primary colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprimary colour 4. Esp. in primary colour. Designating each of the colours from which all other colours can be derived by combining them in different proportions. Also: designating each of the seven colours of the spectrum (now historical).In terms of light the colours are now recognized as red, green, and blue; in terms of pigment, as red, yellow, and blue (black and white were formerly also included). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] i-liteda1225 coloureda1325 colorate?a1425 tinct1579 primary colour1612 tincted1626 tinctured1626 tinto1686 tinted1756 unpaleda1820 pigmented1822 toned1864 hued1876 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise i. xxiii. 79 Blacke, white, and yealow according to Aristotle are the foure [sic] primary or principall colours. 1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours iii. xii. 219 There are but few Simple and Primary Colours (if I may so call them) from whose Various Compositions all the rest do as it were result... I have not yet found, that to exhibit this strange Variety they [sc. Printers] need imploy any more than White, and Black, and Red, and Blew, and Yellow. 1672 I. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5095 That Colour is Primary or Original, which cannot by any Art be changed, and whose Rays are alike refrangible. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §2. 75 White is vulgarly thought to be the most uncompounded of all Colours, while yet it really arises from a certain Proportion of the Seven primary Colours. 1848 R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting vi. 211 Although there are but three primitive colours, painters have nine. These are—Yellow, Red, Blue, which are primary; Orange, Purple, Green, which are secondary, being compounds of the primaries [etc.]. 1876 J. Bernstein Five Senses 109 These three colours, red, green, and violet, are now received as primary colours, because they are the only three pure colours in the spectrum which, when combined, produce a nearly perfect white. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 286/2 He [sc. Kant] attaches ideals of modesty, frankness, courage, &c., to the seven primary colours of Newton's system. 1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 10 The simplest form of colour wheel is one containing the three primary colours. 1996 She Apr. 150/1 In this light and airy house, the owners began with a blank canvas—white walls, tiles and ceilings—to which they have added splashes of primary colour. < as lemmas |
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