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# palette

noun (a palette, palettes)

«palette» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A flat board or tray that an artist uses to hold and mix paints. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#m1)
2. The set of colours used in a painting, a room, a design or a computer program: "a palette of blues and greens". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#m2)
3. A range of things to choose from, such as sounds or flavours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#m3)

### In the lessons

In art lessons, you mix colours on a palette. In design and computing, a colour palette is the group of colours you choose from. In writing about art or food, "palette" can mean a range of colours or flavours (but taste itself is "palate").

### Examples

- Squeeze some red and white paint onto your palette. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#x1)
- She mixed pink on her palette. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#x2)
- The painting uses a palette of soft greens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#x3)
- Pick a colour from the palette at the top of the screen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#x4)
- Wash your palette before the paint dries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#x5)
- The autumn trees showed a palette of red, orange and gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/#x6)

### Note

Countable: a palette, palettes. Homophone traps: palette (paints), palate (roof of the mouth, sense of taste), pallet (wooden platform for goods, or a straw bed). All three sound the same: "PAL-it".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «palette» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palette/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«palette» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/palette.html) on Mova free.