| pink | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. pink | a light shade of red. |
| ~ chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | a color that has hue. |
| ~ pinkness | the quality of being pink. |
| ~ carnation | a pink or reddish-pink color. |
| ~ rose, rosiness | a dusty pink color. |
| ~ purplish pink, solferino | a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino. |
| ~ salmon pink, yellowish pink, apricot, peach | a shade of pink tinged with yellow. |
| ~ coral | a variable color averaging a deep pink. |
| n. (plant) | 2. garden pink, pink | any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers. |
| ~ flower | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms. |
| ~ dianthus, genus dianthus | carnations and pinks. |
| ~ dianthus barbatus, sweet william | Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers. |
| ~ carnation, clove pink, dianthus caryophyllus, gillyflower | Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors. |
| ~ china pink, dianthus chinensis, rainbow pink | Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual. |
| ~ dianthus deltoides, maiden pink | low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center. |
| ~ cheddar pink, diangus gratianopolitanus | mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers. |
| ~ button pink, dianthus latifolius | much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William. |
| ~ cottage pink, dianthus plumarius, grass pink | European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers. |
| ~ dianthus supurbus, fringed pink | Eurasian perennial pink having fragrant lilac or rose flowers with deeply fringed margins. |
| n. (person) | 3. pink, pinko | a person with mildly leftist political views. |
| ~ collectivist, left-winger, leftist | a person who belongs to the political left. |
| v. (perception) | 4. knock, pink, rap, tap | make light, repeated taps on a surface.; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (perception) | 5. knock, ping, pink | sound like a car engine that is firing too early.; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (contact) | 6. pink | cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| adj. | 7. pink, pinkish | of a light shade of red. |
| ~ chromatic | being or having or characterized by hue. |
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