What is the meaning of colour?

noun

• Any material used for its color.
  • usage: "she used a different color for the trim"
  • synonyms: coloring material, colouring material, color
• A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks.
  • synonyms: color, people of color, people of colour
• Physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction. (
  • usage: "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
  • synonyms: color
• Interest and variety and intensity.
  • usage: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
  • synonyms: color, vividness
• The timbre of a musical sound.
  • usage: "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
  • synonyms: color, coloration, colouration
• A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.
  • usage: "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
  • synonyms: color, coloring, colouring
• An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: semblance, gloss, color
• The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness. and saturation)
  • synonyms: color

verb

• Modify or bias.
  • usage: "His political ideas color his lectures"
  • synonyms: color
• Decorate with colors.
  • usage: "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
  • synonyms: color, emblazon
• Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.
  • usage: "color a lie"
  • synonyms: color, gloss
• Affect as in thought or feeling.
  • usage: "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
  • synonyms: tinge, color, distort
• Add color to.
  • usage: "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
  • synonyms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, color in, colour in
• Change color, often in an undesired manner.
  • usage: "The shirts discolored"
  • synonyms: discolor, discolour, color

adjective

• Having or capable of producing colors.
  • usage: "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
  • synonyms: color