Online Google Dictionary

vermilion 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/vərˈmilyən/,
Font size:

A brilliant red pigment made from mercury sulfide (cinnabar),
  1. A brilliant red pigment made from mercury sulfide (cinnabar)

  2. A brilliant red color
    • - a lateral stripe of vermilion
    • - vermilion streaks of sunset
  1. scarlet: a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
  2. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
  3. color vermilion
  4. Vermilion, sometimes spelled vermillion, when found naturally occurring, is an opaque orangish red pigment, used since antiquity, originally derived from the powdered mineral cinnabar. Chemically, the pigment is mercuric sulfide, HgS, and like many mercury compounds it is toxic. ...
  5. Vermilion is a former provincial electoral district that existed from 1905 to 1921.
  6. "Vermilion" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. The song is released as the second single from their third album, ''''.
  7. The Vermilion were a band of the Native American Kickapoo, who migrated from the Great Lakes area and the mouth of the Wisconsin River to settle in Southern Illinois. ...
  8. A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide; A vivid red or slightly orange colour; A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women; A red skin of the lip or its border with the skin of the face; Having a brilliant red colour; Having the color of the vermilion dye
  9. mercury(II) sulfide, HgS, a red pigment; also known as cinnabar. (See minium.)
  10. An orange-red powder made from cinnabar. It was used to make colored ink.
  11. [Jer 22:14; Eze 23:14] a bright, beautiful, red color.
  12. the red sulphuret of mercury, or cinnabar
  13. 1. bright-red mercuric sulfide, used as a pigment 2. scarlet; brilliantly red
  14. The favorite red of the Old Masters.  When exposed to sunlight. Vermilion tends to blacken so the Old Masters would often glaze madder lake over it to preserve and enhance its color.
  15. the red pigmented portion of the upper and lower lips
  16. The red part of the lips (Fig. 1). It is covered with a specialized stratified squamous epithelium, which is in continuity with the oral mucosa of the gingivolabial groove. Confusingly, the vermilion itself is also often referred to as the lips.
  17. bright red/little worm