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PRONUNCIATION OF PRIMARY COLOUR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIMARY COLOUR

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Primary colour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRIMARY COLOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

primary colour

Primary color

Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For human applications, three primary colors are usually used, since human color vision is trichromatic. For additive combination of colors, as in overlapping projected lights or in CRT displays, the primary colors normally used are red, green, and blue. For subtractive combination of colors, as in mixing of pigments or dyes, such as in printing, the primaries normally used are cyan, magenta, and yellow, though the set of red, yellow, blue is popular among artists. See RGB color model, CMYK color model, and RYB color model for more on these popular sets of primary colors. Any particular choice for a given set of primary colors is derived from the spectral sensitivity of each of the human cone photoreceptors; three colors that fall within each of the sensitivity ranges of each of the human cone cells are red, green, and blue. Other sets of colors can be used, though not all will well approximate the full range of color perception. For example, an early color photographic process, autochrome, typically used orange, green, and violet primaries.

Definition of primary colour in the English dictionary

The first definition of primary colour in the dictionary is Also called: additive primary. any of three spectral colours that can be mixed to match any other colour, including white light but excluding black. Other definition of primary colour is Also called: subtractive primary. any one of the spectral colours cyan, magenta, or yellow that can be subtracted from white light to match any other colour. An equal mixture of the three produces a black pigment. Primary colour is also Also called: psychological primary. any one of the colours red, yellow, green, or blue. All other colours look like a mixture of two or more of these colours and they play a unique role in the processing of colour by the visual system.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIMARY COLOUR

primary accent
primary care
primary cell
primary dentition
primary education
primary effect
primary election
primary feather
primary health care
primary mirror
primary processes
primary producer
primary producing country
primary product
primary qualities
primary school
primary schoolteacher
primary stress
primary teacher
primary tense

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIMARY COLOUR

bicolour
body colour
colour
discolour
eye colour
flour
four-colour
hair colour
multicolour
off colour
off-colour
oil colour
person of colour
recolour
secondary colour
skin colour
technicolour
three-colour
tone colour
tricolour
watercolour

Synonyms and antonyms of primary colour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «primary colour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIMARY COLOUR

Find out the translation of primary colour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of primary colour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «primary colour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

原色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

color primario
570 millions of speakers

English

primary colour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्राथमिक रंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللون الأساسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Основной цвет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cor primária
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাথমিক রঙ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

couleur fondamentale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Warna primer
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Grundfarbe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

原色
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

원색
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Werna utami
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màu cơ bản
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முதன்மை வண்ணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राथमिक रंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ilk renk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colore fondamentale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kolor podstawowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

основний колір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

culoare primara
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρωτεύον χρώμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

primêre kleur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

primär färg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

primærfarge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of primary colour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIMARY COLOUR»

The term «primary colour» is regularly used and occupies the 88.718 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIMARY COLOUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about primary colour

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIMARY COLOUR»

Discover the use of primary colour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to primary colour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Primary Art
Starting with the lightest primary colour needed to make the secondary colour, paint one half of one sheet of cartridge paper. 4. Paint the other half of the sheet with the second primary colour. Set aside to dry. 5. Using paint brush, add a tiny ...
Dianne Sterrett, 2007
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Progress in Colour Studies: Psychological aspects
However, an advantage for primary over non-primary colour terms is typically not found when using non-production (for example, comprehension or matching) tasks to assess colour term knowledge (Heider 1971; Andrick & Tager-Flusberg ...
Carole Patricia Biggam, Christian Kay, Nicola Pitchford, 2006
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Manual of Photography
Figure 14.3 The spectral density distributions of primary colour filters used in practice use suitable colour filters. We may select bands in the blue, green and red regions of the spectrum. This selective use of colour filters is illustrated in Plate 1, ...
Ralph Jacobson, Sidney Ray, Geoffrey G Attridge, 2000
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Colour Television: Theory and Practice
What would happen if a third primary colour is introduced? This third colour determines the saturation of the intermediate colour. Saturation, in turn, determines the fullness or strength of the colour. As the colour pales down, it is said to have ...
BALI, 1994
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy and Language
The two propositions, 'Red is a primary colour' and 'Red is a colour in many flags', wear the same linguistic dress, the fact-claiming, or fact-reporting, indicative mood. But the first is bound up with the fact that recourse to the dictionary definition ...
Alice Ambrose, Morris Lazerowitz, 1972
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Animal Colour Changes and Their Neurohumours: A Survey of ...
These early colour activities have been designated primary colour responses and are in strong contrast to those of adult life, which have been called secondary responses (Slome and Hogben, 1928; Parker, 1943 b). A. PRIMARY CoLoUR ...
George Howard Parker, 2012
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Animal Colour Changes and Their Neurohumours
These early colour activities have been designated primary colour responses and are in strong contrast to those of adult life, which have been called secondary responses (Slome and Hogben, 1928; Parker, 19436). A. Primary Colour ...
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Progress in Colour Studies: Language and culture
2.1 Primary and derived colour categories A general principle is that primary colour categories are lexicalized before derived ones: primary categories are WHITE, BLACK, RED, YELLOW, GREEN and BLUE, and derived categories are  ...
Carole Patricia Biggam, Christian Kay, Nicola Pitchford, 2006
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Teaching Primary Art
When we mix two primary colours such as red and blue to create violet/purple this colour and the remaining primary colour – yellow – are called complementary colours. When we add white to a colour the colour gets lighter and this is called a ...
Jean Edwards, 2014
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How Can I Inspire My Painting Class?: Lesson Plan Ideas for ...
Glossary of Colour Terminology Primary Colour: A colour that cannot be mixed from two other colours. Red, yellow and blue may spring to mind, but not any red, yellow and blue is a primary colour. In fact, colours resembling magenta (not red),  ...
Rachel Shirley, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIMARY COLOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term primary colour is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nat LockePerthNow
Because a girl couldn't deal with a primary colour? Here's the thing: They're all kids. And kids will play with whatever is put in front of them. «Perth Now, Jul 15»
2
Dylan Queen: Our New Occasionwear Hotspot
Cobalt blue is a fantastic way to inject a pop of bold primary colour into your occasionwear warbrobe repertoire, and can ultimately be worn ... «LOOK, Jul 15»
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Apple might be planning a cheaper faux gold Apple Watch Sport …
Knowing Apple's primary colour pattern, we expect a space grey colour might also be available. That would fit with the silver option already ... «ITProPortal, Jul 15»
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How the PlayStation-powered New Horizons probe flew to Pluto
With its 5,024x32-pixel CCDs, one for each primary colour plus infrared, it has a resolution of just 0.16 megapixels. Even stranger, the image ... «Expert Reviews, Jul 15»
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Jake Carroll relishes chance to start playing for Pools in first pre …
The traditional blue is the primary colour but the stripes have been replaced with a white diagonal band. “It's beautiful and nice and light,” said ... «Sunderland Echo, Jul 15»
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News in brief: Chanel's celebrities; Kate Upton gives Osmosis a …
The label offset its primary colour solely with white. US model Kate Upton has given Osmosis Pür Medical Skincare a nod in an interview with ... «Lucire, Jul 15»
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Hartlepool United unveil new home kit
Pools will have their traditional blue as their primary colour but the white stripes have been replaced with a white diagonal band. «Hartlepool Mail, Jul 15»
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Battle of the blues: Nivea-Dove colour row set to resume
The European Court of Justice has also made a ruling that allows a bank to copyright a primary colour if it proves that a large majority of ... «Reuters UK, Jul 15»
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Bring sunshine into the garden
When an artist dips his brush into the primary colour yellow, he uses it to bring light and vitality to his canvas. He might decide to dilute it to a ... «Independent Online, Jun 15»
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Export bar placed on John Logie Baird archive
... using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different primary colour ... «ElectronicsWeekly.com, Jun 15»

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