noun
- Any material used for its color.
- usage: "she used a different color for the trim"
- synonyms: coloring material, colouring material, color, colour
- A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks.
- synonyms: color, colour, 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"
- Interest and variety and intensity.
- usage: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
- The timbre of a musical sound.
- usage: "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
- synonyms: color, colour, 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"
- 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"
- The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness. and saturation)
- A distinguishing emblem.
- usage: "his tie proclaimed his school colors"
- synonyms: colors
- A flag that shows its nationality.
- synonyms: colors
verb
- Modify or bias.
- usage: "His political ideas color his lectures"
- Decorate with colors.
- usage: "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
- Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.
- usage: "color a lie"
- Affect as in thought or feeling.
- usage: "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
- Add color to.
- usage: "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
- Change color, often in an undesired manner.
- usage: "The shirts discolored"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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