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color [a]

1)	having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"

Synonyms :

colour

See Also:

photography black-and-white

color [n]

1)	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"

Synonyms :

coloring colour colouring

2)	interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"

Synonyms :

colour vividness

See Also:

interest colorful colorless

3)	the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

Synonyms :

coloration colour colouration

See Also:

quality

4)	a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

Synonyms :

colour people_of_color people_of_colour

See Also:

race person_of_color

5)	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"

Synonyms :

colour gloss semblance

6)	any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"

Synonyms :

coloring_material colour colouring_material

See Also:

material paint indicator mordant dye tincture hematochrome pigment stain

7)	(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors

Synonyms :

colour

See Also:

form high-energy_physics

8)	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 :

colour

See Also:

appearance

color [v]

1)	add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

Synonyms :

color_in colorise colorize colour colour_in colourise colourize

See Also:

alter coloring coloration discolor blackwash motley polychrome azure empurple aurify verdigris pinkify incarnadine embrown handcolour pigment retouch silver gray tone redden blotch

2)	affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"

Synonyms :

colour distort tinge

See Also:

affect

3)	modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"

Synonyms :

colour

See Also:

act_upon

4)	decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"

Synonyms :

colour emblazon

See Also:

adorn colorist coloration miniate

5)	gloss or excuse; "color a lie"

Synonyms :

colour gloss

See Also:

apologise

6)	change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"

Synonyms :

colour discolor discolour

See Also:

change coloring discoloration discoloration blush blanch bronze burn white black turn silver dye redden purple gray yellow tone green blue

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

American spelling of colour.

(1996-12-13)

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