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Palette

Definitions: Palette

Palette

Noun

1. 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)



Specialty Definitions: Palette

DomainDefinitions

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Palette

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A palette is:
  1. A thin board that a painter holds and mixes colour pigments on.
  2. A set of colours put on a palette, or in a more general sense, a particular set or quality of colours.
  3. In computer graphics, a mechanism where by any numeric value held by pixels may be assigned to a particular colour combination, usually specified in RGB. The primary advantage of this method is that a wide range of colour may be supported with a limited amount of graphics memory. Examples of computer graphics system using a palette is the IBM PC EGA and VGA, and the Tiki 100.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Palette."

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Synonyms: Palette

Synonyms: pallet (n), pallette (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Palette

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Palette

English words defined with "palette": impastoPalette knifeTo set the palette. (references)
Specialty definitions using "palette": bits per pixelCLUT, colour look-up table, colour palette, Commodore 65eXtended Graphics Arrayfiller-in tinterPAINTER, HANDRandom Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Convertertrue colourvideo 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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Modern Usage: Palette

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Palette

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Palette for Murder: Murder She Wrote (reference)

  • Flower Painter's Pocket Palette Book 2 (reference)

  • Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life (Writers' Palette) (reference)

  • The Creative Call: An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit (Writers' Palette Book) (reference)

  • The Gardener's Palette (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Palette

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Usage Frequency: Palette

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%30216,684

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Palette

Expressions using "palette": colour palette palette knife To set the palette. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "palette": palette-knife, palette-shaped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Palette

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Palette

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Palette

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pala. (various references)

Old French900-1400

palete. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Palette

Derivations

Words beginning with "palette": palettes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Palette"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "palette" (pronounced pa"lut)
5p a" l u tpalate, pallet.
4-a" l u tballot, mallet.
3-l u tamulet, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Palette

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Palette


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 6C 65 74 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    .-..    .    -    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#108 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#101

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50677871868671

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INDEX

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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