palette
Pluralpalettes
Often confused with palate and pallet
- 1A thin, flat board where a painter puts out and mixes paint colors.
She squeezed some blue paint onto her palette.
The art teacher showed us how to clean a palette after class.
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- 2A group of colors that you can choose from or mix.
The website lets you pick a background from a palette of fifty colors.
We picked our kitchen paint from a palette of soft greens.
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- 3A set of makeup in many colors, often sold together in one tray.
She bought a new eyeshadow palette for the party.
My sister keeps her blush palette in the bathroom drawer.
- 4All the colors used in a picture, a design, an object or an artist's work.
The movie's palette is mostly gray and blue.
I love the warm palette of this living room.
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- 5In a computer program, a group of colors, tools or commands shown on the screen to choose from.
Click the brush in the tool palette to start drawing.
Move the palette to the side so it doesn't cover your picture.
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- 6The different sounds and kinds of tone used in a piece of music or a performance.
This song has a soft palette of piano and strings.
The singer's palette goes from gentle whispers to big, loud notes.
- 7A plate you push your chest against to press hard on a hand drill.
He leaned his chest on the palette to push the drill into the wood.
The palette on this old hand drill is made of wood.
- 8A piece of metal armor that covered the bend of the shoulder or the elbow.
The knight's palette was dented where a sword had hit his shoulder.
Each arm of the old suit has a palette at the elbow.
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Origin
Taken from the French word palette.