purple

adj. having a purple coloring, bluish-red

n. color purple, color made by combining red and blue; official scarlet clothing of a cardinal

v. become purple, make purple

Purple in colloquial English usage is any shade of color occurring between blue and red; this color is sometimes confused with the more narrowly-defined spectral color violet. In color theory a Purple is defined as any non-spectral color between violet and red.
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This article is about the Japanese cipher Purple, also known as AN-1 (citation for AN-1 nomenclature for Purple?). For other Japanese ciphers, such as JN-25 which played a part in the Battle of Midway, see Japanese naval codes. In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki ōbun inji-ki (九七式欧文印字機) ("System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters") or Angōki Taipu-B (暗号機 タイプB) ("Type B Cipher Machine"), codenamed Purple by the United States, was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office just before and during  World War II. The machine was an electromechanical stepping-switch device.
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(v. t.)
To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.
  

(n.)
See Purpura.
  

(n.)
Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.
  

(n.)
Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.
  

(n.)
Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.
  

(n.)
Any shell of the genus Purpura.
  

(n.)
A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
  

(n.)
A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.
  

(n.)
A cardinalate. See Cardinal.
  

(a.)
Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
  

(a.)
Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
  

(a.)
Blood-red; bloody.
  

Phoenicia, red; purple
  

that stones or is stoned; purple
  

Noun
1. a chromatic color between red and blue
(synonym) purpleness, empurpled
(hypernym) chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
(hyponym) mauve
(derivation) empurple, purpurate
2. of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
(hypernym) nobility, noblesse
Verb
1. become purple
(hypernym) discolor, discolour, colour, color
(derivation) purpleness, empurpled
2. color purple
(synonym) empurple, purpurate
(hypernym) color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
(derivation) purpleness, empurpled
Adjective
1. of a color midway between red and blue
(synonym) violet, purplish
(similar) chromatic
2. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
(synonym) embellished, empurpled, over-embellished
(similar) rhetorical
3. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
(synonym) imperial, majestic, regal, royal
(similar) noble