Palette

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palette \Pal"ette\, n. [See {Pallet} a thin board.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a
        thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter
        lays and mixes his pigments. Hence, any other object,
        usually one with a flat surface, used for the same


        purpose. [Written also {pallet}.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence: The complete set of colors used by an artist or
        other person in creating an image, in any medium. The
        meaning of this term has been extended in modern times to
        include the set of colors used in a particular computer
        application, or the complete set of of colors available in
        computer displays or printing techniques.
        [PJC]
  
     3. Hence: The complete range of resources and techniques used
        in any art, such as music.
        [PJC]
  
     4. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of
        junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
        --Fairholt.
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     5. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Palette knife}, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and
        no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to
        mix colors on the grinding slab or palette.
  
     {To set the palette} (Paint.), to lay upon it the required
        pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use
        of them in a picture. --Fairholt.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  palette
       n 1: the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or
            painting or school of art [syn: {pallet}]
       2: board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix
          paints and the range of colors used [syn: {pallet}]
       3: one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of
          armor [syn: {pallette}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "palette":
     air brush, art paper, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas,
     chalk, charcoal, crayon, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier,
     easel, fixative, ground, lay figure, maulstick, medium, paint,
     paintbrush, palette knife, pastel, pencil, pigments, scratchboard,
     siccative, sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, spray gun, stump,
     varnish
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  palette
       
          {colour palette}