Definition of Color

1. Noun. 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"


2. Verb. Add color to. "They color their hair "; "Colorize black and white film"

3. Adjective. Having or capable of producing colors. "Marvelous color illustrations"
Exact synonyms: Colour
Category relationships: Photography, Picture Taking
Antonyms: Black-and-white

4. Noun. Interest and variety and intensity. "The characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Vividness
Generic synonyms: Interest, Interestingness
Attributes: Colorful, Colourful, Colorless, Colourless
Derivative terms: Vivid, Vivid

5. Verb. Affect as in thought or feeling. "The sadness tinged his life"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Distort, Tinge
Generic synonyms: Affect, Bear On, Bear Upon, Impact, Touch, Touch On

6. Noun. The timbre of a musical sound. "The recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
Exact synonyms: Coloration, Colour, Colouration
Generic synonyms: Quality, Timber, Timbre, Tone

7. Verb. Modify or bias. "His political ideas color his lectures"
Exact synonyms: Colour
Generic synonyms: Act Upon, Influence, Work
Derivative terms: Colour

8. Noun. A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).
Exact synonyms: Colour, People Of Color, People Of Colour
Generic synonyms: Race
Member holonyms: Person Of Color, Person Of Colour

9. Verb. Decorate with colors. "Color the walls with paint in warm tones"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Emblazon
Generic synonyms: Adorn, Beautify, Decorate, Embellish, Grace, Ornament
Specialized synonyms: Miniate
Derivative terms: Coloration, Colorist, Colour

10. Noun. An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading. "The situation soon took on a different color"

11. Verb. Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for. "Color a lie"
Exact synonyms: Colour, Gloss
Generic synonyms: Apologise, Apologize, Excuse, Justify, Rationalise, Rationalize
Derivative terms: Gloss

12. Noun. Any material used for its color. "She used a different color for the trim"
Exact synonyms: Coloring Material, Colour, Colouring Material
Specialized synonyms: Paint, Pigment, Indicator, Mordant, Dye, Dyestuff, Tincture, Hematochrome, Pigment, Pigment, Stain
Generic synonyms: Material, Stuff
Derivative terms: Colorist, Colour, Colour, Colour

13. Verb. Change color, often in an undesired manner. "The shirts discolored"

14. Noun. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction. "Each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
Exact synonyms: Colour
Generic synonyms: Form, Kind, Sort, Variety
Category relationships: High Energy Physics, High-energy Physics, Particle Physics

15. 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.
Exact synonyms: Colour
Generic synonyms: Appearance, Visual Aspect
Derivative terms: Colorist

Definition of Color

1. n. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

2. v. t. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.

3. v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

Definition of Color

1. Noun. The spectral composition of visible light. ¹

2. Noun. A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class; blee. ¹

3. Noun. Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and greys). ¹

4. Noun. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. ¹

5. Noun. (figuratively) interest, especially in a selective area. ¹

6. 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. ¹

7. Noun. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons. ¹

8. Noun. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds. ¹

9. Noun. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.(rfex also needs better-worded definition; also, this sense needs to be added to colour if in fact `colour` has this sense in areas that spell it that way) ¹

10. Noun. An appearance of right or authority. ¹

11. Noun. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment ¹

12. Adjective. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray. ¹

13. Verb. To give something color. ¹

14. Verb. To draw within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. ¹

15. Verb. (context: of a face) To become red through increased blood flow. ¹

16. Verb. To affect without completely changing. ¹

17. Verb. To attribute a quality to. ¹

18. Verb. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Color

1. to give color (a visual attribute of objects) to [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Color

colophon
colophonies
colophonite
colophonites
colophonitic
colophons
colophony
coloplication
coloproctia
coloproctitis
coloproctologist
coloproctology
coloproctostomy
coloptosis
colopuncture
color (current term)
color'd
color-blind
color-blind person
color-blindness
color-coordinated
color-octet
color TV
color TV tube
color bar
color bars
color bearer
color blind
color blindness
color by number

Literary usage of Color

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1912)
"A man is a combination of thousands of characters; skin color is only one of ... One meets with plenty of mulattos that from the standpoint of skin color ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"SCIENTIFIC BOOKS An Introduction to the Study of color Vision. ... Dr. Parsons has undertaken to present the facts and the theories of color vision in such ..."

3. Psychology: General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1907)
"color circle. The center of the circle represents white. All colors placed at opposite ends of diameters of the circle are complementary colors. ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The commonest form of color-blindness is that in which many colors are seen, but the vision differs from the normal in that (a) one or more color-qualities ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"No such difference appeared in the case of the color combinations. ... We got the same result with our color combinations. Of the cases where, ..."

6. Proceedings by American Pomological Society (1900)
"New Varieties: Among the most promising are: Apples—Hamilton*, color, red; quality 9; ... Pears—Alamo*, color, yellowish red; season, July and August; ..."

7. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"A STUDY OF THE EARLY color SENSE. In this article I shall give the results of experiments which I carried out on my son during the first year of his life. ..."

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