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Definitions: Palette |
PaletteNoun1. The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art". 2. Board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used. 3. One of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "palette" was first used: 1622. (references) |
Note: Palette \Pal"ette\, noun. [See Pallet thin board.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Palette colour palette. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Fine Arts | A thin oval or rectangular board or tablet in which is a thumb-hole near one end for being held horizontally when in use and on which a painter lays and mixes pigments. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: PaletteSynonyms: pallet (n), pallette (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Painting | Pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish; a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Palette |
| English words defined with "palette": impasto ♦ Palette knife ♦ To set the palette. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "palette": bits per pixel ♦ CLUT, colour look-up table, colour palette, Commodore 65 ♦ eXtended Graphics Array ♦ filler-in tinter ♦ PAINTER, HAND ♦ Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter ♦ true colour ♦ video memory. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Palette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (paddle, palette, pallet, range, scoopful, shovel, spade), German (palette, pallet, pallete, range, spectrum). |
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Lyrics | Paint your palette blue and gray ("Vincent"; performing artist: Don McLean) To try and wash the palette clean ("WE BELONG"; performing artist: Pat Benatar) | |
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| "Palette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Palette" is used about 302 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) | 100% | 302 | 16,684 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "palette": colour palette ♦ palette knife ♦ To set the palette. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "palette": palette-knife, palette-shaped. | |
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| 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. |
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color palette | 165 |
palette | 159 |
paint palette | 33 |
artist palette | 25 |
palette of narmer | 22 |
planter palette | 13 |
paint color palette | 12 |
palace palette | 10 |
grateful palette | 9 |
painter palette | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "palette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paletë piktori, gamë ngjyrash. (various references) | |
Arabic | مجموعة الألوان الموضوعة على ملون, لوحة ألوان الرسام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | палитра (pallet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 调色板. (various references) | |
Czech | paleta (pallet, range, spectrum). (various references) | |
Danish | palet. (various references) | |
Dutch | palet (palet). (various references) | |
Farsi | جعبه رنگ نقاشی . (various references) | |
Finnish | paletti (sequin). (various references) | |
French | palette (paddle, pallet, pallette). (various references) | |
German | palette (pallet, pallete, range, spectrum). (various references) | |
Greek | παλέτα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | paletta. (various references) | |
Italian | tavolozza (range). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 調色板 , 絵皿 (decorative plate), パルス幅変調 (palace, Palestine, pallet, parade, Parmesan cheese, partisan, party, pulp, pulp magazine, pulse width modulation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パレット (pallet), ちょうしょくば", えざら (decorative plate). (various references) | |
Korean | " 트. (various references) | |
Manx | claare daahder, boayrd daahder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alettepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paleta (palet, paletteknife, palliasse), palestra (causerie, chitchat, collogue, lecture, palatable, talk, visit). (various references) | |
Romanian | pieptar de coarbã, paletã (bat, blade, float, paddle, pallet), gamã de culori (range of colors, range of colours), gamã (Diapason, gamut, range, scale, scope, series). (various references) | |
Russian | палитра (pallet-bed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paleta (pallet). (various references) | |
Spanish | paleta (aerofoil, airfoil, battledore, blade, flight, ice lolly, mixing arm, paddel arm, paddle, pallet, pallette, scraper, spreader, trowel, vane, wing). (various references) | |
Swedish | palett, färgkarta. (various references) | |
Turkish | palet (fin, flipper, pallet, pallete, track). (various references) | |
Ukranian | грудний упор коловорота, палітра (pallet). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pala. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | palete. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "palette": palettes. (additional references) | |
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"Palette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aletti, Alletti, aplette, Bellettee, Dalgetty, Falette, galette, pabloite, Pacetti, pagette, palatte, paleate, paleatte, paleit, paleta, palete, paletle, palett, palitate, palite, Palito, pallatte, pallete, palleted, pallett, palte, Paoletti, Paretti, pavletic, Pavlita, Pawlet, Pawlett, peleta, Piazetta, pilatte, Pilotta, Pizetti, plett, Poblete, Poletti, Salette, Spalletti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "palette" (pronounced pa"lut) |
| 5 | p a" l u t | palate, pallet. |
| 4 | -a" l u t | ballot, mallet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: peltate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-p-t-t" | |
-1 letter: pattee, pettle. | |
-2 letters: elate, etape, latte, leapt, lepta, palet, petal, plate, pleat, telae, tepal. | |
-3 letters: alee, late, leap, leet, lept, pale, pate, peal, peat, peel, pele, pelt, plat, plea, tael, tale, tape, tate, teal, teat, teel, tela, tele, tepa. | |
-4 letters: ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, att, eat, eel, eta, lap, lat, lea, lee, let, pal, pat, pea, pee, pet, tae, tap, tat, tea, tee, tel, tet. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, pa, pe, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: palettes, pallette, palmette, platelet, telepath, template, toeplate. | |
+2 letters: epaulette, paillette, pallettes, palmettes, petiolate, platelets, prebattle, saltpeter, telepaths, telepathy, templates, temptable, toeplates. | |
+3 letters: antepenult, epauletted, epaulettes, paillettes, palmettoes, patentable, planchette, saltpeters, splattered, streetlamp, telepathic, terneplate, wentletrap. | |
+4 letters: antepenults, attemptable, breastplate, cappelletti, centripetal, contemplate, epithetical, expectantly, expostulate, extrapolate, interpolate, letterspace, pantalettes, patternless, penitential, pentathlete, pentavalent, pentlandite, penultimate, planchettes, pleasantest, preallotted, preliterate, repentantly, streetlamps, telepathies, temperately, terneplates, wentletraps. | |
+5 letters: breastplates, contemplated, contemplates, departmental, electroplate, exploitative, expostulated, expostulates, extrapolated, extrapolates, interpellate, interplanted, interpolated, interpolates, letterspaces, outplacement, pentathletes, pentlandites, pestilential, postliterate, preliterates, recapitulate, repetitional, sextuplicate, superathlete, telegraphist, tetrapyrrole, unpatentable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 65 74 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-.. . - - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l e t t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 0065 0074 0074 0065 |
| 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)50677871868671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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