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[ US /ˈpɪɡmənt/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪɡmənt/ ]
VERB
  1. color or dye with a pigment
    pigment a photograph
  2. acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
  3. dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)

How To Use pigment In A Sentence

  • Chlorophyll is only one of several pigments found in plants, but it is by far the most important.
  • This softly pigmented wax will help shape brows and give them a bit more color to look fuller.
  • Red algae are red because of the presence of the pigment phycoerythrin; this pigment reflects red light and absorbs blue light.
  • Side effects of all topical treatments include allergic and contact dermatitis, depigmentation of surrounding normal skin, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.
  • This leaves a pigment in your skin. The Sun
  • It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
  • The dual texture will give the dense pigments of a matte lippy plus a plump satin finish. The Sun
  • This alters the way in which one of the proteins in the retina—rhodopsin, a pigment responsible for night vision as well as blue-green color vision—behaves. Birdology
  • The dual texture will give the dense pigments of a matte lippy plus a plump satin finish. The Sun
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