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Definition of Colouring
1. Noun. A digestible substance used to give color to food. "Food color made from vegetable dyes"
Generic synonyms: Food Product, Foodstuff
Derivative terms: Color, Colour
2. 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"
Generic synonyms: Visual Property
Specialized synonyms: Primary Color, Primary Colour, Heather, Heather Mixture, Mottle, Shade, Tincture, Tint, Tone, Chromatic Color, Chromatic Colour, Spectral Color, Spectral Colour, Achromatic Color, Achromatic Colour, Coloration, Colouration, Complexion, Skin Color, Skin Colour, Dithered Color, Dithered Colour, Nonsolid Color, Nonsolid Colour
Attributes: Colored, Colorful, Coloured, Uncolored, Uncoloured
Derivative terms: Color, Color, Color, Colorist, Colorize, Color, Colour
Antonyms: Colorlessness
3. Noun. The act or process of changing the color of something.
Generic synonyms: Change Of Color
Specialized synonyms: Tinting, Hair Coloring, Dyeing
Derivative terms: Color, Colour
Definition of Colouring
1. Noun. (British Canada) (alternative spelling of coloring) ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of colour) ¹
3. Verb. (British Canada) (alternative spelling of coloring) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colouring
1. colour [v] - See also: colour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colouring
Literary usage of Colouring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"The Xanthophyll Group of Yellow colouring Matters." By CA SCHUNCK. ... The group
under consideration comprises those colouring matters occurring in flowers, ..."
2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"colouring-Matters.1 § 399. Bed wines are frequently more valuable than white ...
The three colouring- matters first mentioned approximate very closely to ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1848)
"On colouring Matters. By Dr. SCHUNCK. AT the meeting of the British Association
at Southampton I gave a short account of my experiments on the colouring ..."
4. The Analyst (1877)
"Group a colouring matters that penetrate but slowly into the jelly. ... By an
addition of 10 per cent, of colouring matter, I understand that -¡-'^ of the ..."
5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1887)
"To prepare the phenol colouring-matter, 5 grms. of phenol are mixed with an equal
volume of sulphuric acid and 20 cc. of the reagent gradually ..."
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