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Pink

Pink Meaning & Definition
Pink Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pink?

[n] a light shade of red
[n] any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
[adj] similar to the natural color of pinks
[v] cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
[v] make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pink: chromatic | garden pink | knock | pinkish | rap | tap

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See Also | apricot | button pink | carnation | carnation | cheddar pink | china pink | chromatic color | chromatic colour | clove pink | coral | cottage pink | cut | Diangus gratianopolitanus | Dianthus | Dianthus barbatus | Dianthus caryophyllus | Dianthus chinensis | Dianthus deltoides | Dianthus latifolius | Dianthus plumarius | Dianthus supurbus | flower | fringed pink | genus Dianthus | gillyflower | go | grass pink | maiden pink | peach | purplish pink | rainbow pink | rose | salmon pink | solferino | sound | spectral color | spectral colour | sweet William | yellowish pink

Pink In Webster's Dictionary

\Pink\, n. [D. pink.] (Naut.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also {pinky}. --Sir W. Scott. {Pink stern} (Naut.), a narrow stern.
\Pink\, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with the eyes.] To wink; to blink. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
\Pink\, a. Half-shut; winking. [Obs.] --Shak.
\Pink\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pinking}.] [OE. pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form of pick.] 1. To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles. 2. To stab; to pierce as with a sword. --Addison. 3. To choose; to cull; to pick out. [Obs.] --Herbert.
\Pink\, n. A stab. --Grose.
\Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the petals were picked out. Cf. {Pink}, v. t.] 1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus {Dianthus}, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx. 2. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower. --Dryden. 3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. ``The very pink of courtesy.'' --Shak. 4. (Zo["o]l.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.] {Bunch pink} is {Dianthus barbatus}. {China}, or {Indian}, {pink}. See under {China}. {Clove pink} is {Dianthus Caryophyllus}, the stock from which carnations are derived. {Garden pink}. See {Pheasant's eye}. {Meadow pink} is applied to {Dianthus deltoides}; also, to the ragged robin. {Maiden pink}, {Dianthus deltoides}. {Moss pink}. See under {Moss}. {Pink needle}, the pin grass; -- so called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See {Alfilaria}. {Sea pink}. See {Thrift}.
\Pink\, a. Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th {Pink}, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons. {Pink eye} (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. {Pink salt} (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. {Pink saucer}, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

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