Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
color , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Brit. See
color .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The spectral composition of visible light
- noun countable A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class;
blee . - noun uncountable
Hue as opposed toachromatic colours (black, white and greys). - noun uncountable Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or
ethnicity . - noun figuratively
Interest , especially in a selective area. - noun heraldry Any of the standard dark
tinctures used in acoat of arms , includingazure ,gules ,sable , andvert . Contrast withmetal . - noun in the plural A
standard orbanner . - noun The system of
colour television . - noun in the plural An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- noun 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.
- noun physics A property of
quarks , with three values called red, green, and blue, which they canexchange by passinggluons . - noun typography The relative
lightness ordarkness of a mass of written or printedtext on a page. - noun snooker Any of the colored balls excluding the
reds . - noun A
front orfacade : anostensible truth actually false. - noun An appearance of right or authority.
- noun medicine Skin color noted as: normal,
jaundice ,cyanotic ,flush ,mottled ,pale , orashen as part of theskin signs assessment. - adjective Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
- verb To give something colour.
- verb intransitive To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons.
- verb of a face To become red through increased blood flow.
- verb To affect without completely changing.
- verb informal To attribute a quality to.
- verb mathematics To
assign colours to thevertices of (agraph ) or theregions of (amap ) so that no twoadjacent ones have thesame colour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- verb affect as in thought or feeling
- verb modify or bias
- adjective having or capable of producing colors
- noun any material used for its color
- 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
- noun the timbre of a musical sound
- noun a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- verb change color, often in an undesired manner
- noun an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- noun interest and variety and intensity
- verb give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- noun a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
- verb add color to
- verb decorate with colors
Etymologies
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Examples
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Speaking of the highly-coloured males, especially among birds, the same writer states that "the _normal colour_ (italics ours) is that of the young and the female, and the colour of the male is the result of his excessive variability."
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934
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Shadow is, on the contrary, necessary to the full presence of colour; for every colour is a diminished quantity or energy of light; and, practically, it follows from what I have just told you -- (that every light in painting is a shadow to higher lights, and every shadow a light to lower shadows) -- that also every _colour_ in painting must be a shadow to some brighter colour, and a light to some darker one -- all the while being a positive colour itself.
Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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a considerable degree of what might be called naturalism, so far as good line-drawing and understanding of flower form goes, emphasis of colour being sought by means of _planes of colour_, rather than by planes of shadow.
Line and Form (1900) Walter Crane 1880
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a charge of a metal must rest upon a field that is of a colour or fur; or, contrariwise, that a charge of a colour must rest on a field that is of a metal or fur, -- that is, that _metal be not on metal, nor colour on colour_.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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The main colour is maya blue with the "Aeroport Castello" sponsor screened on the in the middle.
Add and updated kits-Villarreal CF away jersey 2008/09 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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The main colour is maya blue with the "Aeroport Castello" sponsor screened on the in the middle.
Archive 2009-03-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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I can only empathise since my skin colour is the majority.
kateelliott: Someone Else's Rant on the Internet is Worth Reading kateelliott 2009
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Still fire and flesh pressed together, and a tiny spiral of smoke began to arise from Kwaque's finger-end that was different in colour from the smoke of a cigar-end.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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The main colour is red with the white hoop in the middle, sleeve ends and Puma logos all being white.
VfB Stuttgart 2008-09 team jerseys by Puma Azmie aka switch image 2009
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The main colour is red with the white hoop in the middle, sleeve ends and Puma logos all being white.
Archive 2009-03-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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