different between polychromatic vs brindled

English

Etymology

poly- +? chromatic

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?lik???mæt?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?lik????mæt?k/
• Hyphenation: pol?y?chro?mat?ic

Adjective

polychromatic (comparative more polychromatic, superlative most polychromatic)

1. Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours; multicoloured.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 76):

     With our water goggles adjusted we gazed at the fishes displaying their polychromatic scales to the sea world, as, with true Puka-Pukan languor, they finned from coral to coral.

   • 1908, O. Henry, Strictly Business

     As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]

2. (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Composed of more than one wavelength.

Synonyms

• (having many colours): motley, multicolored, polyhued; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Antonyms

• monochromatic

Derived terms

• polychromatic acid

Translations

References

• polychromatic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??nd?ld/

Adjective

brindled (comparative more brindled, superlative most brindled)

1. of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted
   • 1725, Pope, Odyssey (translation), book 10

     The palace in a woody vale they found,

     High raised of stone; a shaded space around;

     Where mountain wolves and brindled lions roam,

     (By magic tamed,) familiar to the dome.

   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Black Peter’ (Norton 2005, p.982)

     And there, in the middle of it was the man himself—his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony.

Translations

Verb

brindled

1. simple past tense and past participle of brindle