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Noun: colors kúlurz Usage: US (=colours)
- A flag that shows its nationality
- colours [Brit, Cdn] - A distinguishing emblem
"his tie proclaimed his school colors" - colours [Brit, Cdn] Noun: color kúlur Usage: US (=colour)
- 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" - colour [Brit, Cdn], coloring [US], colouring [Brit, Cdn] - Interest and variety and intensity
"the Puritan Period was lacking in color" - colour [Brit, Cdn], vividness - The timbre of a musical sound
"the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" - colour [Brit, Cdn], coloration, colouration [Brit, Cdn] - A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
- colour [Brit, Cdn], people of color [US], people of colour [Brit, Cdn] - An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
"the situation soon took on a different color" - semblance, gloss, colour [Brit, Cdn] - Any material used for its color
"she used a different color for the trim" - coloring material [US], colouring material [Brit, Cdn], colour [Brit, Cdn] - (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
"each flavor of quarks comes in three colors" - colour [Brit, Cdn] - The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- colour [Brit, Cdn] Verb: color kúlur Usage: US (=colour)
- Add color to
"The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees" - colorize [US], colorise [Brit], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], colour [Brit, Cdn], color in [US], colour in [Brit, Cdn] - Affect as in thought or feeling
"My personal feelings color my judgment in this case" - tinge, colour [Brit, Cdn], distort - Modify or bias
"His political ideas color his lectures" - colour [Brit, Cdn] - Decorate with colors
"color the walls with paint in warm tones" - colour [Brit, Cdn], emblazon - Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
"color a lie" - colour [Brit, Cdn], gloss - Change color, often in an undesired manner
- discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], colour [Brit, Cdn]
See also: chromatic, coloration, colored [US], colorful [US], coloring [US], colorist [US], colorless [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn], colourless [Brit, Cdn], uncolored [US], uncoloured [Brit, Cdn] Type of: act upon, adorn, affect, alter, apologise [Brit], apologize, appearance, bear on, bear upon, beautify, change, decorate, embellish, emblem, excuse, flag, form, grace, impact, influence, interest, interestingness, justify, kind, material, modify, ornament, quality, race, rationalise [Brit], rationalize, sort, stuff, timber, timbre, tone, touch, touch on, variety, visual aspect, visual property, work Antonym: colorlessness [US], discolor [US] Encyclopedia: Color Colors Colors, sorrel |