All related terms of 'colours'

an attribute of things that results from the light they reflect , transmit , or emit in so far as this light causes a visual sensation that depends on its wavelengths

The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.

a flag to which one is not entitled , flown esp in order to deceive

If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours , you realize what they are really like.

conspicuous success ; triumph

the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver

If you colour in a drawing , you give it different colours using crayons or paints .

If you pass a test with flying colours , you have done very well in the test.

the colour of a person's eyes

Oil paint is a thick paint used by artists . It is made from coloured powder and linseed oil.

a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white

distortion in a colour television receiver in which high-frequency luminance detail is interpreted as colour information and reproduced as flashes of spurious colour

any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides

colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image , as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter

a misty appearance produced when no lines or edges are present in the visual field

of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person

the colour or shade of someone's hair

Local colour is used to refer to customs , traditions , dress , and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character .

the colour of a person's skin , ie Black, White, etc

the colour of a person's skin , ie Black , White, etc

the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it

to deliberately deceive people

any of three spectral colours (usually red , green , and blue ) that can be mixed to match any other colour, including white light but excluding black

a colour on which other colours are superimposed to create a pattern

Poster paint is a type of brightly coloured paint which contains no oil and is used for painting pictures .

Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.

any of the four colours ( cyan , magenta , yellow, and black) used in process printing

an artificial colour

a bright region of an animal's coloration , normally hidden from view and often part of a design resembling birds' eyes, etc, exposed when the animal is disturbed by a predator

any of three spectral colours (usually red , green , and blue ) that can be mixed to match any other colour, including white light but excluding black

a colour formed by mixing a primary and a secondary colour or two secondary colours

colour, such as white, black , and grey , that is devoid of hue

a colour formed by mixing two primary colours

to refuse to admit defeat

to state your opinions or beliefs about something clearly and publicly

one of any pair of colours, such as yellow and blue , that give white or grey when mixed in the correct proportions

a person who is not White

to suddenly become aware that a person is not as moral or honest as you thought they were

If someone nails their colours to the mast , they say what they really think about something.

a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white

If you nail your colours to someone's mast , or if you nail your colours to a particular mast , you show that you support a particular person or issue .

the third planet from the sun, the only planet on which life is known to exist. It is not quite spherical , being flattened at the poles , and consists of three geological zones , the core , mantle , and thin outer crust . The surface, covered with large areas of water, is enveloped by an atmosphere principally of nitrogen (78 per cent ), oxygen (21 per cent), and some water vapour . The age is estimated at over four thousand million years. Distance from sun: 149.6 million km; equatorial diameter : 12 756 km; mass: 5.976 × 10 24 kg; sidereal period of axial rotation : 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds; sidereal period of revolution about sun: 365.256 days

Earth or the Earth is the planet on which we live. People usually say Earth when they are referring to the planet as part of the universe , and the Earth when they are talking about the planet as the place where we live.

the third planet from the sun , the only planet on which life is known to exist. It is not quite spherical , being flattened at the poles , and consists of three geological zones , the core , mantle , and thin outer crust . The surface, covered with large areas of water, is enveloped by an atmosphere principally of nitrogen (78 per cent ), oxygen (21 per cent), and some water vapour . The age is estimated at over four thousand million years. Distance from sun: 149.6 million km; equatorial diameter : 12 756 km; mass: 5.976 × 10 24 kg; sidereal period of axial rotation : 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds; sidereal period of revolution about sun: 365.256 days

the third planet from the sun , the only planet on which life is known to exist. It is not quite spherical , being flattened at the poles , and consists of three geological zones , the core , mantle , and thin outer crust . The surface, covered with large areas of water, is enveloped by an atmosphere principally of nitrogen (78 per cent ), oxygen (21 per cent), and some water vapour . The age is estimated at over four thousand million years. Distance from sun: 149.6 million km; equatorial diameter : 12 756 km; mass: 5.976 × 10 24 kg; sidereal period of axial rotation : 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds; sidereal period of revolution about sun: 365.256 days