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# purple

«purple» in Mova's school dictionary: **a colour you get by mixing red and blue, like grapes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (purple, purpler, purplest); noun (purple)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Purple is a colour you get by mixing red and blue, like grapes, plums or violets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#m1)

2) Purple was once a colour worn by kings and queens, because the dye was very costly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a colour that sorts things into groups to count or compare; parts add up to the whole. In art: mix red and blue paint to make purple. In science: some vegetables like red cabbage and beetroot are purple. Phrases: dark purple, light purple, purple with rage, go purple in the face.

### examples

- There are 6 purple and 9 yellow balloons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x1)
- How many more red beads than purple beads? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x2)
- She has 14 crayons; 3 are purple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x3)
- Each purple box holds 8 pens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x4)
- Mix red and blue paint to make purple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x5)
- Grapes can be green or purple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x6)
- Her favourite colour is purple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x7)
- Violets are small purple flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purple/#x8)

### note

Colour words are adjectives (a purple hat) and nouns (purple is my favourite). Light purple is also called violet or lilac. A colour that makes groups; parts add up to the whole. No clue by itself.

### In the corpora

- [Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering at people for it is unkind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/17/)
- [They came from the cold Andes mountains of South America, where thousands of purple, red and knobbly kinds still grow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/7/)
- [Chop red cabbage, soak it in hot water, and you get a purple juice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/0/)
- [Universal indicator mixes several dyes, so each pH gets its own colour, a whole rainbow from red to purple.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/6/)
- [Beetroot juice stays red in vinegar and turns more purple-brown in alkali; not every plant colour changes the same way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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