Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A greenish blue, one of the subtractive primary colors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cyanogen .
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- noun A
colour betweenblue andgreen in thevisible spectrum ; thecomplementary colour ofred ; thecolour obtained by subtractingred fromwhite light. - adjective Of the colour cyan.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color
- adjective of a bluish shade of green
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Scientists have used three fluorescent proteins in cyan, yellow and red – colours similar to those used by a computer printer – to colour the brain of a mouse.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 - Illustrated Presentation
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The opposite of yellow in pigments and dyes is magenta+cyan, which is blue.
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The first challenge is to find the colour fabrics needed: bright green, bright yellow, black and cyan, which is a bluey-green sort of pale turquiose.
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The first challenge is to find the colour fabrics needed: bright green, bright yellow, black and cyan, which is a bluey-green sort of pale turquiose.
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'Pears like to me dey wuz more of 'em, but some how I jes' cyan '' member no more 'bout 'em.
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While he created GFP mutants that emit various colours such as cyan, blue and yellow he struggled to produce a red GFP mutant unit.
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BIT_OR (CASE val WHEN 'cyan' THEN 1 WHEN 'yellow' THEN 2 ELSE 0 END) as bitvals, count (*)
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Eating chocolate cake, drinking tea and playing scrabble was how we whiled away the afternoon (not really the Lonely Planet travelling life!), and after arguments about the words 'cyan', 'fiche', 'yeti' and 'rancor', we then had to invest in a little English dictionary.
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There are roughly 600 common color names such as cyan or lime green, but thousands of actual colors that designers can pick.
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While he created GFP mutants that emit various colours such as cyan, blue and yellow he struggled to produce a red GFP mutant unit.
mager commented on the word cyan
hex = #00ffff
April 4, 2008