Main Difference
The main difference between Magenta and Pink is that the Magenta is a color visible between red and purple; subtractive (CMY) primary color and Pink is a any of the colors between bluish red (purple) and red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation.
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Magenta
Magenta () is a color that is variously defined as purplish-red, reddish-purple, purplish, or mauvish-crimson. On computer screens, it is made by mixing equal amounts of blue and red. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located midway between red and blue. It is the complementary color of green. It is one of the four colors of ink used in color printing and by an inkjet printer, along with yellow, black, and cyan, to make all the other colors. The tone of magenta used in printing is called “printer’s magenta”.
Magenta took its name from an aniline dye made and patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin, who originally called it fuchsine. It was renamed to celebrate the Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta fought between the French and Austrians on June 4, 1859, near the Italian town of Magenta in Lombardy. A virtually identical color, called roseine, was created in 1860 by two British chemists, Chambers Nicolson and George Maule.
The web color magenta is also called fuchsia.
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Pink
Pink is a pale red color that is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity and the romantic. It is associated with chastity and innocence when combined with white, but associated with eroticism and seduction when combined with purple or black.
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Magenta (noun)
A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
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Magenta (adjective)
having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
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Pink (noun)
The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus}. from 15th c.
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Pink (noun)
A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr. from 17th c.
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Pink (noun)
A narrow boat. from 15th c.
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Pink (noun)
A stab.
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Pink (noun)
Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations. from 16th c.
“This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.”
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Pink (noun)
A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality. from 16th c.
“Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.”
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Pink (noun)
The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red. from 17th c.
“My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.”
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Pink (noun)
Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters. from 18th c.
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Pink (noun)
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 6 points. from 19th c.
“Oh dear, he’s left himself snookered behind the pink.”
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Pink (noun)
An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare babbitt, bourgeoisie.
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Pink (verb)
To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
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Pink (verb)
To prick with a sword.
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Pink (verb)
To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
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Pink (verb)
To choose; to cull; to pick out.
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Pink (verb)
To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat; (more generally) to turn something pink.
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Pink (verb)
To emit a high “pinking” noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
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Pink (verb)
To wink; to blink.
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Pink (adjective)
Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
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Pink (adjective)
Of a fox-hunter’s jacket: scarlet.
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Pink (adjective)
Having conjunctivitis.
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Pink (adjective)
By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
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Pink (adjective)
Relating to women or girls.
“pink-collar; pink job”
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Pink (adjective)
Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
“the pink economy”
“pink dollar; pink pound”
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Pink (adjective)
Half-shut; winking.
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Magenta (noun)
a light mauvish-crimson which is one of the primary subtractive colours, complementary to green
“a short magenta dress”
“bright pink double flowers each lined in dark magenta”
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Magenta (noun)
the dye fuchsin.
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Pink (adjective)
of a colour intermediate between red and white, as of coral or salmon
“her face was pink with embarrassment”
“bright pink lipstick”
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Pink (adjective)
(of wine) rosé.
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Pink (adjective)
having or showing left-wing tendencies
“pink politicians”
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Pink (adjective)
of or associated with homosexuals
“a boom in the pink economy”
“the pink pound”
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Pink (noun)
pink colour, pigment, or material
“soft pastel shades of pink and blue”
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Pink (noun)
the scarlet jacket worn by fox-hunters or the material from which this is made.
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Pink (noun)
the pink ball in snooker.
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Pink (noun)
rosé wine.
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Pink (noun)
the best condition or degree
“the economy is not in the pink of health”
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Pink (noun)
a herbaceous Eurasian plant with sweet-smelling pink or white flowers and slender, typically grey-green leaves.
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Pink (noun)
a small square-rigged sailing ship, typically with a narrow, overhanging stern.
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Pink (noun)
a yellowish lake pigment made by combining vegetable colouring matter with a white base.
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Pink (verb)
become pink
“Cheryl’s cheeks pinked with sudden excitement”
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Pink (verb)
shear (a sheep) so closely that the colour of the skin is visible
“McFowler pinked every sheep and never drew blood”
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Pink (verb)
cut a scalloped or zigzag edge on
“I pinked the edge of the fabric”
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Pink (verb)
wound or nick (someone) slightly with a weapon or missile
“Bernstein pinked him in the arm”
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Pink (verb)
decorate
“April pinked the earth with flowers”
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Pink (verb)
(of a vehicle engine) make a series of rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders
“the car was inclined to pink slightly in accelerating from a low engine speed”