| cadmium yellow |
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noun
- cadmium sulphide when used as a pigment
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| calligraphy |
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noun
- The art of writing letters and words with decorative strokes.
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| Calvary |
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proper noun
- The hill outside Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the location of the crucifixion of Jesus.
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| carmine |
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noun
- A purplish-red pigment made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives
- A purplish-red colour.
- <table><tr><td>carmine colour: </td><td bgcolor="
- 7F3A3F" width="80"> </td></tr></table>
adjective
- (colour) Of a purplish red colour.
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| carrier |
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noun
- A person or object that carry, carries someone or something else.
- aircraft carrier
- armored personnel carrier
- A company in the business of shipping freight.
- A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- A mobile network operator; wireless carrier
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| cartoon |
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noun
- A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
- A drawing satirise, satirising current public figures.
- An artist's preliminary sketch.
- An animated cartoon.
- A diagram in a scientific concept.
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| cartouche |
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noun
- (architecture) an ornamental figure, often on an oval shield
- (Egyptian hieroglyphics) an oval figure containing characters that represent the names of royal or divine people
- a paper cartridge
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| charcoal |
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noun
- impure carbon obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of oxygen.
- a stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
- a drawing made with charcoal.
- (colour) a very dark gray colour.
- <table><tr><td>charcoal colour: </td><td bgcolor="
- 343332" width="80"> </td></tr></table>
adjective
- (colour) of a dark gray colour.
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| chartreuse |
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noun chartreuse
- a yellow or green liqueur made by Carthusian monks
- (colour) a greenish yellow colour
- <table><tr><td>chartreuse colour: </td><td bgcolor="
- 7FFF00" width="80"> </td></tr></table>
adjective
- (colour) of a bright yellowish-green colour.
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| chiaroscuro |
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noun
- An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of exaggerated light contrasts in order to create the illusion of volume.
- A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
- A photographic technique in which one side of a face (for example) is well lit and the other is in shadow; Rembrandt lighting
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| Chinese boxes |
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noun
- A set of boxes, of different sizes, each fitting inside the next larger one.
- Something that resembles a set of Chinese boxes, especially in complexity.
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| classical |
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adjective ((compar): more classical, (superl): most classical)
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
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| collage |
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noun
- a picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface
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| collection |
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noun
- A set of items or objects procured by an individual.
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- The activity of collecting.
- Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
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| colorist |
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noun
- One who colors; an artist has a talent for coloring
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| color wheel |
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noun
- alternative spelling of colour wheel
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| complementary |
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adjective
- acting as a complement
- (genetics) of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA
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| compose |
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verb (compos, ing)
- (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
- Try to your thoughts.
- (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
- A church is composed of its members.
- The members the church.
- (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
- (transitive, or, intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
- The orator composed his speech over the week prior.
- Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.
- It's difficult to without absolute silence.
- (reflexive) To calm oneself down.
- The defendant couldn't herself and was found in contempt.
- To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
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| composition |
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noun
- The combining of different parts to make a whole.
- The general makeup of something.
- A mixture or compound; the result of composing
- A work of music, literature or art.
- An essay.
- {Linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
- (printing) typesetting.
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| conceptual art |
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noun - A genre of art in which the transmission of ideas is more important than the creation of an art object
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| construction paper |
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noun
- Thick colored paper that people cut out to make designs, models, etc
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| constructivism |
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noun
- a Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials
- (mathematics) a philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists
- a theory of learning
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| contrast |
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noun
- (uncountable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
- (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
- The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
- (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
- Israel is a country of many contrasts.
- (uncountable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
verb
- (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
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| crayon |
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noun
- a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing
verb
- to draw with a crayon
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| crucifixion |
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noun
- execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
- (the Crucifixion) The death on a cross of Christ.
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| cubism |
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noun
- (context, often, capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.
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