Colour

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British Variant of color.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The spectral composition of visible light
  • n. A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class; blee.
  • n. Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
  • n. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  • n. Interest, especially in a selective area.
  • n. Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
  • n. A standard or banner.
  • n. The system of colour television.
  • n. An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  • n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.
  • n. A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
  • n. The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
  • n. Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  • n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
  • n. An appearance of right or authority.
  • n. Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
  • adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
  • v. To give something colour.
  • v. To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons.
  • v. To become red through increased blood flow.
  • v. To affect without completely changing.
  • v. To attribute a quality to.
  • v. To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same colour.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See color.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. etc. See color, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
  • v. affect as in thought or feeling
  • v. modify or bias
  • adj. having or capable of producing colors
  • n. any material used for its color
  • n. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
  • n. the timbre of a musical sound
  • n. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
  • v. change color, often in an undesired manner
  • n. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
  • n. interest and variety and intensity
  • v. give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
  • n. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
  • v. add color to
  • v. decorate with colors
  • Verb Form
    coloured    coloureds    colouring    colours   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sort    form    kind    variety    bear upon    bear on    touch    touch on    affect    impact   
    Variant
    color   
    Form
    colourize    coloured    true colours    colourise    fire    colours    flame    colourful    colourimeter    colourless   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blee    hue    shade    complexion    race    ethnicity    interest    stain    standard    banner   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    color    red    hue    shade    gold    light    beauty    silk    flower    hair