'Color' definitions:
Definition of 'color'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations" [syn: color, colour] [ant: black and white(p), black-and-white]
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" [syn: color, colour, coloring, colouring] [ant: achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness]
noun
Interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness" [syn: color, colour, vividness]
noun
The timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" [syn: color, colour, coloration, colouration]
noun
A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) [syn: color, colour, people of color, people of colour]
noun
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" [syn: semblance, gloss, color, colour]
noun
Any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim" [syn: coloring material, colouring material, color, colour]
noun
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors" [syn: color, colour]
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 [syn: color, colour]
verb
Add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" [syn: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in] [ant: discolor]
verb
Affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life" [syn: tinge, color, colour, distort]
verb
Modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures" [syn: color, colour]
verb
verb
verb
Definition of 'Color'
From: GCIDE
- Color \Col"or\, v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Color'
From: GCIDE
- Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring.] [F. colorer.]
- 1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. [1913 Webster]
- The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. [1913 Webster]
- He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hide. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Color'
- Colorable,
- Colorableness,
- Colorably,
- Colorate,
- Coloration,
- Colored,
- Coloring,
- Of color,
- color in,
- colorful,
- colorize,
- colors,
- off color,
- Accidental color,
- Body color,
- Color blindness,
- Color sergeant,
- Complementary color,
- Complementary colors,
- Cyanic colors,
- Damask color,
- Dead color,
- Dead coloring,
- Express color,
- Field colors,
- Flame color,
- Flying colors,
- Fundamental colors,
- Grain colors,
- Indelible colors,
- Isabel color,
- Isabella color,
- Lead color,
- Lenten color,
- Liver color,
- Local color,
- Peach color,
- Play of colors,
- Primary colors,
- Primitive colors,
- Prismatic colors,
- Protective coloring,
- Rose color,
- Saturated color,
- Secondary color,
- Solid color,
- Stand of colors,
- Steam colors,
- Subjective color,
- Substantive color,
- Tempering color,
- Tertiary color,
- To dip the colors,
- To troop the colors,
- Tone color,
- Water color,
- Xanthic colors,
- achromatic color,
- apatetic coloration,
- aposematic coloration,
- basic color,
- change of color,
- chromatic color,
- cinnamon colored,
- color bar,
- color bearer,
- color blind,
- color chart,
- color circle,
- color code,
- color constancy,
- color force,
- color guard,
- color line,
- color of law,
- color photography,
- color property,
- color scheme,
- color spectrum,
- color television,
- color tube,
- color tv,
- color vision,
- color wash,
- color wheel,
- colored audition,
- colored hearing,
- colored person,
- coloring book,
- coloring material,
- copper color,
- copper colored,
- cryptic coloration,
- dithered color,
- earth color,
- earth colors,
- food color,
- food coloring,
- hair coloring,
- mouse colored,
- nonsolid color,
- off-color,
- oil color,
- parti color,
- people of color,
- person of color,
- poster color,
- primary color,
- protective coloration,
- ring of color,
- rose colored,
- skin color,
- spectral color,
- vat color,
- warning coloration,
- Color-blind,
- Cream-colored,
- Fawn-colored,
- Flame-colored,
- High-colored,
- Judas-colored,
- Lark-colored,
- Liver-colored,
- Parti-colored,
- Party-colored,
- Peach-colored,
- Rose-colored,
- Self-color,
- Self-colored,
- Slate-color,
- Straw-colored,
- Three-color,
- To come off with flying colors,
- Trout-colored,
- blush-colored,
- brightly-colored,
- buff-colored,
- chestnut-colored,
- chocolate-colored,
- cinnamon-colored,
- color television system,
- color television tube,
- color tv tube,
- color vision deficiency,
- creamy-colored,
- dark-colored,
- dun-colored,
- dusky-colored,
- earth-colored,
- flesh-colored,
- garnet-colored,
- gold-colored,
- honey-colored,
- lead-colored,
- light-colored,
- lilac-colored,
- metal-colored,
- metallic-colored,
- mouse-colored,
- multi-color,
- multi-colored,
- neutral-colored,
- olive-colored,
- orange-colored,
- pale-colored,
- parti-color,
- pass with flying colors,
- pastel-colored,
- peachy-colored,
- primary color for light,
- primary color for pigments,
- rosy-colored,
- rust-colored,
- silver-colored,
- snuff-color,
- solid-colored,
- tawny-colored,
- violet-colored,
- water-color,
- wine-colored,
- Rose-colored starling,
- clay-colored robin,
- color-blind person,
- cream-colored courser,
- earth-colored earthlike,
- honey honey-colored,
- mousy mouse-colored,
- primary subtractive color for light,
- rose-colored pastor,
- slate-colored junco,
- straw-color straw-colored straw-coloured,
- blushful blush-colored rosy,
- field-sequential color television,
- field-sequential color tv,
- red-green color blindness,
- rust rusty rust-colored,
- yellow-blue color blindness,
- field-sequential color television system,
- field-sequential color tv system,
- snuff snuff-brown snuff-color snuff-colour snuff-colored snuff-coloured mummy-brown chukker-brown