The word 'violet' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a specific color (a bluish-purple color) or as an adjective to describe something as having a purple hue. Example: The sunset over the mountains was a beautiful shade of violet, with deep indigo blending into soft lavender.
With eyes watering in the sharp wind, it was a relief to shelter under a high bank by the river, where dog violet, barren strawberry and thyme clung to the crumbly debris.
On the park lawn, a trapeze artist is balancing on a high wire in the last fingers of sunshine and two actors rehearse their lines under the violet blooms of a jacaranda tree.
A slice of apple, soaked in antioxidant liquid, is sprayed with violet essence and placed over the top of the glass for serving.
The first outfit here showed Lauren was in the mood to try something a bit different: a pair of combat trousers with a vibrant violet asymmetric satin top.
Then there must be precisely-timed livestock grazing in early summer to help the female butterflies locate the violet leaves on which to lay their eggs.
You can't be a shrinking violet, and because you are dealing with people in highly emotional situations, you also need to be empathetic.
Rather than trying to improve the ubiquitous red laser that drives today's DVD players, engineers in both camps have adopted the recently developed blue-violet laser as a way of packing greater volumes of data on to a single DVD.
For paintings, he employs an ultra-violet laser that produces pulses of light a billionth of a second long.
In this case, the magic comes from a coating on the paper rather than an ink-based agent.The Xerox coating changes colour when exposed to ultra-violet light, but becomes invisible again naturally after 16 to 24 hours or immediately if heated or fed back into Xerox's ultra-violet printer.
A red laser pumps out light at a wavelength of 650 nanometres (billionths of a metre); a blue-violet laser operates at a shorter 405 nm.
The researchers found that birds could clearly perceive the strong ultra-violet coloration given to the fruit by the presence of a group of antioxidants called anthocyanins.In this section The germ of an idea Riding piggyback Barren land A bird's eye view ReprintsThat does not necessarily mean that birds would chose anthocyanin-filled fruit.
