Pigment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pigment	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Pigment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pigment n dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating; "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably" Synonym(s): paint, pigment v acquire pigment; become colored or imbued color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pigment \Pig"ment\, n. [L. pigmentum, fr. the root of pingere to paint: cf. F. pigment. See {Paint}, and cf. {Pimento}, {Orpiment}.] 1. Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle. 2. (Physiol.) Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc. 3. Wine flavored with species and honey. --Sir W. Scott. {Pigment cell} (Physiol.), a small cell containing coloring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.