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# cyan

«cyan» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bright greenish-blue colour, like a clear tropical sea** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cyan, uncountable); adjective (cyan)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cyan is a bright greenish-blue colour, like a clear tropical sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#m1)

2) (science, printing) Cyan is one of the main colours of printer ink, together with magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons cyan appears in colour mixing: in light, green + blue light make cyan; in printing, cyan ink absorbs red light. Printers often need a new cyan cartridge. It tells the reader an exact shade of blue-green. Related colours: turquoise, aqua, teal.

### examples

- The printer has run out of cyan ink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x1)
- Cyan is a mix of blue and green light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x2)
- She painted the sky cyan in her picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x3)
- The swimming pool water looked cyan in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x4)
- CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x5)
- On the screen, cyan and red together make white light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x6)
- The cyan text was hard to read on the white page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x7)

### note

Pronounced «SY-an». Uncountable when it is a colour name. Cyan is very close to «aqua» and «turquoise»; in screen colours, cyan and aqua are the same. In printing, CMY are the subtractive primary colours; in light, RGB (red, green, blue) are the additive primary colours, and cyan is the opposite of red.

### In the corpora

- [Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cyan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.