Palette : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Palette	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Palette
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
palette n the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art Synonym(s): palette, pallet board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used Synonym(s): palette, pallet one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor Synonym(s): pallette, palette
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Palette \Pal"ette\, n. [See {Pallet} a thin board.] 1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also {pallet}.] 2. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. --Fairholt. 3. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill. {Palette knife}, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. {To set the palette} (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a picture. --Fairholt.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
palette {colour palette}