color

Noun

• (n.) color, colour, coloring, colouring (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"
• (n.) color, colour, vividness (interest and variety and intensity) "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
• (n.) color, colour, coloration, colouration (the timbre of a musical sound) "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
• (n.) color, colour, people of color, people of colour (a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks))
• (n.) semblance, gloss, color, colour (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"
• (n.) coloring material, colouring material, color, colour (any material used for its color) "she used a different color for the trim"
• (n.) color, colour ((physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction) "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
• (n.) color, colour (the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation)

Verb

• (v.) color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in (add color to) "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
• (v.) tinge, color, colour, distort (affect as in thought or feeling) "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
• (v.) color, colour (modify or bias) "His political ideas color his lectures"
• (v.) color, colour, emblazon (decorate with colors) "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
• (v.) color, colour, gloss (give a deceptive explanation or excuse for) "color a lie"
• (v.) discolor, discolour, colour, color (change color, often in an undesired manner) "The shirts discolored"

Adjective

• (adj.) color, colour (having or capable of producing colors) "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"