WordNet meanings
View source ↗- Adjectiveoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
having or capable of producing colors
color film
he rented a color television
marvelous color illustrations
- Nounoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
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
- Nounoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
interest and variety and intensity
the Puritan Period was lacking in color
the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
- Nounoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
the timbre of a musical sound
the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
- Nounoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
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
- Nounoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
any material used for its color
she used a different color for the trim
- Nounoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
- Nounoewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- Verboewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
add color to
The child colored the drawings
Fall colored the trees
colorize black and white film
- Verboewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
affect as in thought or feeling
My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
The sadness tinged his life
- Verboewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
modify or bias
His political ideas color his lectures
- Verboewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
decorate with colors
color the walls with paint in warm tones
- Verboewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
color a lie
- Verboewn american_spelling__1.10.01..
change color, often in an undesired manner
The shirts discolored
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Wiktionary meanings
View source ↗- Noununcountable
The spectral composition of visible light.
- Nouncountable
A subset thereof:
A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- Noununcountable
A subset thereof:
Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- Nouncountableuncountable
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).
- Nouncountableuncountable
A subset thereof:
Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- Nouncountableuncountable
A paint.
- Noununcountable
Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Nouncountableuncountable
Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- Nouncountableuncountable
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- Nouncountablefigurativelyuncountable
Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- Nouncountablein pluraluncountable
A standard, flag, or insignia:
A standard or banner.
- Nouncountablein pluraluncountable
A standard, flag, or insignia:
The flag of a nation or team.
- Nouncountablein pluraluncountable
A standard, flag, or insignia:
Gang insignia.
- Nouncountablein pluraluncountable
An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- Nouncountablein pluraluncountable
The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- Nouncountableuncountable
A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- Noununcountable
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.
- Nouncountableuncountable
The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- Nouncountableuncountable
Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- Nouncountableuncountable
A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- Nouncountableuncountable
An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- Nouncountableuncountable
Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- Nouncountableslanguncountable
To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get".
- Nouncountableuncountable
Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- Nouncountableuncountable
The quality of a particular vowel sound.
- AdjectiveUSnot comparable
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
- VerbUStransitive
To give something color.
- VerbUStransitive
To give something color.
To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- VerbUSintransitive
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- VerbUSof a person or their face
To become red through increased blood flow.
- VerbUS
To affect without completely changing.
- VerbUSinformal
To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- VerbUS
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.
- VerbUSusuallyof a phoneme
To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
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