color

Plural: colors

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"
• interest and variety and intensity
  • "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
• the timbre of a musical sound
  • "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
• a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
• an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
  • "the situation soon took on a different color"
• any material used for its color
  • "she used a different color for the trim"
• (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
  • "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
• the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
• The spectral composition of visible light.
• A subset thereof:
• A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• A subset thereof:
• Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• A subset thereof:
• 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).
• A subset thereof:
• Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
• A paint.
• Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• 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.
• Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
• A standard, flag, or insignia:
• A standard or banner.
• A standard, flag, or insignia:
• The flag of a nation or team.
• A standard, flag, or insignia:
• Gang insignia.
• An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
• 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.
• The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
• 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.
• Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
• To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
• Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.

Verb

Verb Forms: colored, coloring, colors

• To give color to; to tint or dye; to influence or distort.
• add color to
  • "The child colored the drawings"
  • "Fall colored the trees"
  • "colorize black and white film"
• affect as in thought or feeling
  • "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"
• modify or bias
  • "His political ideas color his lectures"
• decorate with colors
  • "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
• give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
  • "color a lie"
• change color, often in an undesired manner
  • "The shirts discolored"
• To give something color.
• To give something color.
• To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
• To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
• To become red through increased blood flow.
• To affect without completely changing.
• To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
• 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.

Adjective

• having or capable of producing colors
  • "color film"
  • "he rented a color television"
  • "marvelous color illustrations"

Adj

• Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

Examples

• a bit of local color
• Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
• Can this graph be 2-colored?
• color commentary
• color commentator
• Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
• Color me confused.
• Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
• Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
• He was awarded colors for his football.
• Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
• His opponent’s strategy began to COLOR his perception of the game’s outcome.
• Humans and birds can perceive color.
• Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
• My kindergartener loves to color.
• That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
• The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
• The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
• The colors were raised over the new territory.
• The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
• The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
• There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
• They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
• This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
• Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
• We could color the walls red.
• What color are your bf's eyes?
• You can color any map with four colors.

Synonyms

color in, coloration, coloring, coloring material, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colouration, colouring, colouring material, colourise, colourize, discolor, discolour, distort, emblazon, gloss, people of color, people of colour, semblance, tinge, vividness, DgammaDtime, affect, banner, blee, blush, call, color, color television, complexion, dye, ethnicity, gamma decay, hue, influence, paint, race, shade, stain, standard, tincture, tint

Antonyms

black-and-white, colorlessness, discolor, decolor

Related Words

:Category:Colors, Appendix:Colors, black, blue, brown, colorable, colorably, coloration, colorer, gray, green, grey, orange, pink, purple, red, tincture, violet, white, yellow

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