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noun

a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.

a coloring matter or substance.

Biology. any substance whose presence in the tissues or cells of animals or plants colors them.

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verb (used with object)

to color; add pigment to.

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verb (used without object)

to become pigmented; acquire color; develop pigmentation: a poor quality of paper that doesn't pigment well.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin pigmentum paint, equivalent to pig- (stem of pingere to paint) + -mentum -ment

Related forms

hy·per·pig·ment·ed, adjective

non·pig·ment·ed, adjective

un·pig·ment·ed, adjective

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GM declined to say whether the pigment shortage would affect availability of its vehicles.

The room's security guard divulges that she has to keep visitors from plunging their hands into the dry pigment.

The top layers of chromatophores have red or yellow pigment.

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GM declined to say whether the pigment shortage would affect availability of its vehicles.

The room's security guard divulges that she has to keep visitors from plunging their hands into the dry pigment.

The top layers of chromatophores have red or yellow pigment.

Paints are essentially pigment particles bound in a sticky, transparent medium, whereas dyes or soluble in liquid.

Melanin is the pigment that gives colours to tissues.

Betacyanin, the pigment that gives beets their color, is a powerful antioxidant.

The three large, dark-brown cells contain high levels of the pigment melanin.

Increased pigment production is called hyperpigmentation.

She has shown that her fossils react with antibodies to haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells.

The color of skin depends mainly on melanin, a brownish pigment produced by melanocytes in the epidermis.

The printing method placed one particle per dot to create the tiniest piece of artwork ever printed from single pigment particles.

The pigment comes from the skin of the fruit, so there's no reason to mash the berries before adding them to the water.

When he becomes weak from draining his own body, the painter begins using the blood of young women as his pigment.

Decreased pigment production is called hypopigmentation.

In the next image in the series the canvas has been slashed and the surface coloured with pigment.

Melanin, the brown pigment in the skin, acts as a natural sunscreen.

Current photonic-archaeology techniques would either damage the paint or not distinguish it from pottery pigment.

It had been lacquered with some kind of pigment to make the texture even more surreal.

Pigment stones are composed of calcium bilirubinate, or calcified bilirubin.

Cellular branches extend from these cells and allow the pigment to flow up to and interact with the pigment in upper layers.

It's color is due of a pigment derivated of urobilin.

Dye ink is more vibrant but less durable than pigment.

The substance also has the power to shape the caterpillar's texture and pigment distribution, enhancing its disguise.

Early artists employed various techniques for applying pigment to surfaces.

Chronic hemolytic anemia, including sickle cell anemia, increases the risk for pigment gallstones.

The lake's color comes from a red pigment in cyanobacteria, which feed on high levels of salt in the lake.

Tanning and skin care industries that add more color and appearance of pigment to the skin.

Most pigment cells are found in the skin, but cancer can develop in other areas where the cells are found.

The conversion of sunlight through the green pigment chlorophyll in plants uses carbon dioxide and water and releases oxygen.

It is also available in a colorless powder that is contains only the casein binder and other dry ingredients but no pigment.

The two rulers found with the pyramid-top tomb had been coated head-to-toe in sacred red pigment.

Other animal studies suggest that the pigment may help protect against colon cancer.

The pigment was also used to decorate gold objects such as burial masks.

Generally, pigment changes are cosmetic and do not affect physical health.

Each bacterium produced a black pigment if it did not sense light.

Retin-A works by blocking production of melanin, the skin pigment.

They consist of little elastic sacs filled with pigment.

Cavefish are ancient, scaleless, live in total darkness and lack any pigment.

Conversely, at depths where little sunlight penetrates, the algae nestle right inside the coral's pigment bundles.

Actually, hippos' sweat has an oily red pigment in it-not blood.

Scientists introduced a missing red pigment into the cone cells of the retinas of two male squirrel monkeys.

Artists were thought not to have had access to that pigment until a decade later.

Three species of fungi containing the black pigment melanin-a substance also present in human.

Apparently, but only if they contain melanin, the chemical that serves as skin pigment in humans.

The beaded appearance of the feathers below is a result of pigment concentrations.

In painting, color is both fact and illusionHowever, when pigment or glaze.

Many of these creatures have special pigment cells called chromatophores in their skin.

Schofield was hoping to receive a can of pigment in the mail but got a mathematical equation instead.

Pigment glaucoma starts with a condition called pigment dispersion syndrome, an inherited condition in which granules of pigment.

The virus contained genes for red pigment in cone cells-cells in the eye that respond to light and color.

With prolonged use of the drug, some people actually develop skin thickening and skin darkening or a loss of pigment in the area.

The hornet's yellow tissues contained the obscure pigment xanthopterin, which gives butterfly wings and mammal urine their color.

Bonior reworks and redefines each memory repeatedly using layer upon layer of transparent pigment.

These fish acquire the red pigment naturally when growing wild but come out paler when raised in artificial environments.

These are the skin cells that produce melanin, the pigment that gives skin its color.

Euphausia superba among them, get their color from the pigment carotine in the algae they eat.

To further intensify the color, layer eye shadow on top of the pigment.

The bones had been covered in red ochre, a pigment made from clay.

The yellow pigment is from bilirubin, a byproduct of old red blood cells.

Verano said the tattoos were probably done using charcoal pigment inserted beneath the skin with a needle or cactus spine.

Sickle cell disease stems from a defective form of hemoglobin, the red pigment that transports and transfers gases in the blood.

Preserved pigment cells in these six feather barbs lend tantalizing clues to color.

It is an organic pigment but contains chlorine, some forms of which can cause cancer and birth defects.

The cortex, under the cuticle, holds protein cells that make the hair flexible and pigment to give the hair its color.

They paint themselves or one another two or three times a day, using pigment made from earth or ground stone mixed with water.

Some fungi use gamma radiation and a natural pigment called melanin to create energy for growth.

It also involved printing it out section by section on a high-resolution flatbed pigment printer.

By then a great deal of pigment has been deposited in body tissues, especially joint cartilage.

Creating inkjet printers that can spray pigment inks in a pattern fine enough for sharply detailed photographs was costly.

The white variety can be colored during mixing by adding powdered pigment.

He explained that infants and children lack pigment in the lens of the eye, which helps filter ultraviolet rays.

The ends are painted in a mixture of pigment and sap from cedar and jujube trees.

MacDonald wades in boldly, laying on thin pigment with a sure hand.

Her desiccated remains are covered with red pigment and bear tattoos of patterns and mythological figures.

When gallstones occur in this age group they are more likely to be pigment stones.

Bilirubin is a yellowish pigment found in bile, a fluid produced by the liver.

Bilirubin is a yellowish pigment found in bile, a fluid made by the liver.

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World English Dictionary

pigment (ˈpɪɡmənt)

—n
1.	a substance occurring in plant or animal tissue and producing a characteristic colour, such as chlorophyll in green plants and haemoglobin in red blood
2.	any substance used to impart colour
3.	a powder that is mixed with a liquid to give a paint, ink, etc

[C14: from Latin pigmentum, from pingere to paint]

'pigmentary

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

pigment

late 14c., from L. pigmentum "coloring matter, pigment, paint," from root of pingere "to color, paint" (see paint). Variants of this word may have been known in O.E. (e.g. 12c. pyhmentum).

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Medical Dictionary

pigment pig·ment (pĭg'mənt)
n.

A substance used as coloring.
Dry coloring matter, usually an insoluble powder to be mixed with water, oil, or another base to produce paint and similar products.
A substance that produces a characteristic color in tissue.
A medicinal preparation applied to the skin like paint.

v. pig·ment·ed, pig·ment·ing, pig·ments
To color with pigment.

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Science Dictionary

pigment

(pĭg'mənt) Pronunciation Key

An organic compound that gives a characteristic color to plant or animal tissues and is involved in vital processes. Chlorophyll, which gives a green color to plants, and hemoglobin, which gives blood its red color, are examples of pigments.
A substance or material used as coloring.

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