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COLOR
color, colour
(adjective) having or capable of producing colors; “color film”; “he rented a color television”; “marvelous color illustrations”
color, colour
(noun) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person’s perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
semblance, gloss, color, colour
(noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; “he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity”; “he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction”; “the situation soon took on a different color”
color, colour, coloring, colouring
(noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; “a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light”
color, colour, coloration, colouration
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound; “the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music”
color, colour, vividness
(noun) interest and variety and intensity; “the Puritan Period was lacking in color”; “the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness”
color, colour
(noun) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; “each flavor of quarks comes in three colors”
discolor, discolour, colour, color
(verb) change color, often in an undesired manner; “The shirts discolored”
color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
(verb) add color to; “The child colored the drawings”; “Fall colored the trees”; “colorize black and white film”
color, colour, gloss
(verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; “color a lie”
color, colour, emblazon
(verb) decorate with colors; “color the walls with paint in warm tones”
color, colour
(verb) modify or bias; “His political ideas color his lectures”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
color (countable and uncountable, plural colors) (American spelling)
(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light
Synonym: blee
A subset thereof
(countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
Synonyms: blee, hue
(uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
Synonyms: hue, shade, blee
These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
Synonym: color television
(heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
Coordinate terms: metal, stain
A paint.
(uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
Synonyms: complexion, ethnicity, race
(medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
(figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
A standard, flag, or insignia
(in the plural) A standard or banner.
Synonyms: banner, standard
(in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
(in the plural) Gang insignia.
(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
(military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
(physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
(finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
(typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See .)
(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
Usage notes
The late Anglo-Norman colour, which is the standard UK spelling, has been the usual spelling in Britain since the 14th century and was chosen by Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) along with other Anglo-Norman spellings such as favour, honour, etc. The Latin spelling color was occasionally used from the 15th century onward, mainly due to Latin influence; it was lemmatized by Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), along with favor, honor, etc, and is currently the standard US spelling.
In Canada, colour is preferred, but color is not unknown; in Australia, -our endings are the standard, although -or endings had some currency in the past and are still sporadically found in some regions. In New Zealand and South Africa, -our endings are the standard.
Synonyms
• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): colour, DgammaDtime, gamma decay
Hypernyms
• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
Hyponyms
• accidental color
• bodycolor
• color of fire
• color of law
• deep color
• eye color
• forecolor
• high color
• hypercolor
• local color
• noncolor
• primary color
• prismatic colors
• process color
• pseudocolor
• secondary color
• skin color
• tertiary color
• topcolor
• true color
• true colors
• undercolor
• watercolor
• web color
Adjective
color (not comparable) (American spelling)
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
Verb
color (third-person singular simple present colors, present participle coloring, simple past and past participle colored) (American spelling)
(transitive) To give something color.
Synonyms: dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tint
(transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
(intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
Synonym: color in
(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
Synonym: blush
To affect without completely changing.
Synonyms: affect, influence
(informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
Synonym: call
(mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
Antonyms
• decolor
Hyponyms
• color in
• color by number
• color by numbers
• color inside the lines
• color outside the lines
• color up
• discolor
• miscolor
• overcolor
• precolor
• recolor
Anagrams
• corol, crool
Source: Wiktionary
Col"or, n. [Written also colour.] Etym: [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See Helmet.]
1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them.
2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.
3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.
4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. Shak.
6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak.
7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow.
8. (Law)
Definition: An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone.
Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. Body color. See under Body.
– Color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See Daltonism.
– Complementary color, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.
– Of color (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.
– Primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called fundamental colors.
– Subjective or Accidental color, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regulary subdiveded, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth, of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See Accidental colors, under Accidental.
Col"or, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring.] Etym: [F. colorer.]
1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.
2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. Dryden.
3. To hide. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. Spenser.
Col"or, v. i.
Definition: To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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