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Definitions: Indigo |
IndigoNoun1. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically. 2. Deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye. 3. A blue-violet color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indigo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | A natural dyestuff extracted from the stems and leaves of Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera anil and woad plants. It is an ancient dyestuff used formerly for cotton, wool, and sil&=k. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To see indigo in a dream, denotes you will deceive friendly persons in order to cheat them out of their be longings. To see indigo water, foretells you will be involved in an ugly love affair. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This is about the colour Indigo. There is also the place Indigo, Victoria in Australia. Indigo is a frequency range of visible light, from 440 to 420 nanometers in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet. On a browser that supports visual formatting in Cascading Style Sheets, the following box should appear in this color:
Indigo does not fit into the "primary" (additive) or "secondary" (produced from equal combinations of primaries) categories of colors. It was named and defined by Isaac Newton when he divided up the optical spectrum (which is of course a continuum of frequencies). He named seven colors specifically to link them with the (known) planets, days of the week, notes in the octave, and other lists that had seven items.
The human eye is relatively insensitive to indigo frequencies, and some otherwise well-sighted people cannot distinguish indigo from blue and violet.
See also Indigo dye, Indigo plant, Indigo Books and Music
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Indigo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
INDIGO | English | Indian Ocean Geochemistry | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: IndigoSynonyms: anil (n), indigo plant (n), indigotin (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: indigoes (chemical industry, industry). |
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Screenplays | His friends would say stop whining, they've had enough of that; His friends would say stop pining, there's other girls to look at; They've tried to set him up with Tiffany and Indigo; But there's something about Mary that they don't know; Mary, there's just something about Mary. (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The King of Indigo (1911) Indigo Nights (2000) Terre indigo (1995) Indigo Girls: Watershed (1995) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The experiments upon indigo had succeeded no better at the Jardin des Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. |
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Business | Technologies being used today can recover usable amounts of process water, size, indigo, polyvinyl alcohol and salts. (references) | |
Economic History | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Beginning in 1719, French settlers cultivated coffee, tobacco, indigo, cotton, and sugar on plantations worked by African slaves. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Indigo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.78% of the time. "Indigo" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.78% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.48% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.87% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.87% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 115 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "indigo". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Indigo | Male, Female | English | Indigo |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Indigo Books & Music, Inc. | United Kingdom | Indigo Vision Group Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "indigo": bastard indigo ♦ blue false indigo ♦ Chinese indigo ♦ common indigo plant ♦ eastern indigo snake ♦ false indigo ♦ Indigo berry ♦ indigo bird ♦ indigo blue ♦ indigo broom ♦ Indigo brown ♦ indigo bunting ♦ Indigo Carmine ♦ indigo copper ♦ indigo finch ♦ Indigo green ♦ indigo plant ♦ Indigo purple ♦ Indigo red ♦ indigo snake ♦ indigo squill ♦ indigo white ♦ Indigo yellow ♦ natural indigo ♦ white false indigo ♦ wild indigo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "indigo": indigo-black, indigo-blue, indigo-disulphonic acid, indigo-dyed, indigo-grey, indigo-that. | |
Ending with "indigo": canary-yellow-and-indigo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
indigo | 1,116 | indigo red | 25 |
indigo girl | 615 | club indigo | 25 |
indigo child | 383 | indigo inn | 24 |
chapter indigo | 281 | indigo girl tab | 22 |
indigo book | 170 | flame indigo | 22 |
indigo niños | 170 | indigo jean palm | 21 |
indigo bunting | 145 | bahamas indigo jean palm tommy | 21 |
indigo girl lyrics | 90 | canal indigo | 20 |
indigo snake | 47 | wild indigo | 20 |
color indigo | 44 | indigo plant | 19 |
indigo book store | 40 | enfant indigo | 19 |
false indigo | 34 | indigo restaurant | 18 |
indigo rose | 33 | indigo printing | 17 |
echo indigo | 33 | eastern indigo snake | 17 |
airline indigo | 30 | indigo system | 17 |
indigo kid | 29 | club dallas indigo | 16 |
hp indigo | 29 | indigo tata | 16 |
indigo niño | 29 | indigo moon | 15 |
indigo blue | 27 | indigo ninos | 15 |
mood indigo | 26 | chapter indigo book | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "indigo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngjyrë llullaqi, llullaq (indian blue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نيلي لون, النيلة صبغ أزرق, اللون النيلي (anile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тъмносин (mazarine, navy blue), индиго (carbon, carbon paper, indian blue, indian ink, indigo blue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 靛" (Indigoes), 靛' . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | indigo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indigotin (CI food blue 1, indigo carmine, indigotin), indigoplante (anil, anil indigo plant, indigo plant), indigo (anil, anil indigo plant, indigo plant), E132 (CI food blue 1, indigo carmine, indigotin), CI food blue 1 (CI food blue 1, indigo carmine, indigotin), anil (anil, anil indigo plant, indigo plant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | indigotine (CI food blue 1, indigo carmine, indigotin), indigokarmijn (CI food blue 1, indigo carmine, indigotin), indigogewassen (anil, anil indigo plant, indigo plant), E132 (CI food blue 1, indigo carmine, indigotin), CI food blue 1 (CI food blue 1, indigo carmine, indigotin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیلی (Blue), نیل پرطاوس , نیل , وسمه , رنگ (Colony, Complexion, Dye, Grain, Hue, Paint, Shade, Speckle, Tint, Tune), برنگ نیلی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | indigotiini (CI food blue 1, E132, indigo carmine, indigotin), indigokarmiini (CI food blue 1, E132, indigo carmine, indigotin), E 132 (CI food blue 1, E132, indigo carmine, indigotin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indigo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | indigofarben, indigo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λουλάκι (blue, bluing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי "י'ו, א יל, כחול כ"" (navy blue), יל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | indigó (carbon, carbon paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | nila (blue dye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indaco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 藍 , インシュリンショック療法 (Indianapolis 500 mile race, indicator, indium, injection, injector, Instamatic camera, instance, instant, instant coffee, instant ramen, insulation, insulin shock therapy, precooked Chinese noodles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あい (accomplice, associate, fellow, joint, love, mutually, together), インジゴブルー , インジゴ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 남빛 (Indigoes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | plooreen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indigoay vergonha (abashment, black eye, crying shame a, disgrace, mortification, obnoxious, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma), corante azul, anil (Anil, blue, indirect), índigo (anil, anil indigo plant, azure, indian chief, indigo plant). (various references) indigo (Anil, blue, carbon, carbon paper, indian blue). (various references) индиго (Indian blue). (various references) indigo boja, indigo (anil, carbon), modra boja. (various references) de índigo, de añil, índigo (anil, anil indigo plant, indian blue, indigo plant), añil (Anil, anil indigo plant, blue, blueing, bluing, indigo plant). (various references) indigoblå (indigo blue), indigo (indian blue). (various references) çivit (indigo blue, indigotic). (various references) індиго (Anil). (various references) m u xanh ch m (indigo blue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | INDIGOFERA SUFFRUTICOSA. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "indigo": indigoes, indigoid, indigoids, indigos, indigotin, indigotins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "indigo": windigo. (additional references) | |
Words containing "indigo": windigoes, windigos. (additional references) | |
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"Indigo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: idago, ideog, Idigo, Inbio, indego, indeo, Indevo, indgio, indi, indig, indige, indiglo, indigp, induro, Lindigo, onigo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "indigo" (pronounced i"ndugō') |
| 3 | -u g ō' | archipelago. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: dingo, doing, iodin. | |
-2 letters: ding, dong, nidi, nodi. | |
-3 letters: dig, din, dog, don, gid, gin, god, ion, nod, nog. | |
-4 letters: do, go, id, in, no, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: digoxin, gonidia, gonidic, indigos, voiding, windigo. | |
+2 letters: avoiding, digoxins, discoing, dittoing, gonidial, gonidium, gridiron, indigoes, indigoid, indowing, iodating, iodising, iodizing, misdoing, nonrigid, poinding, radioing, widowing, windigos. | |
+3 letters: adjoining, anodizing, codifying, codriving, coediting, colliding, confiding, cowhiding, devoicing, diagnosis, dialoging, digestion, digitonin, digitoxin, disowning, disposing, disrobing, disyoking, divorcing, evildoing, gneissoid, granitoid, gridirons, hoidening, idolising, idolizing, imbodying, imploding, indigoids, indigotin, indorsing, infolding, inholding, joyriding, miscoding, misdoings, modifying, odorizing, ordaining, outriding, oxidating, oxidising, oxidizing, providing, skidooing, windigoes, windowing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 69 67 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. .. --. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d i g o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0064 0069 0067 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438070757381 |
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