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Noun: colours Usage: Brit, Cdn (=colors)
- A flag that shows its nationality
- colors [US] - A distinguishing emblem
"his tie proclaimed his school colours" - colors [US] Noun: colour kúlu(r) Usage: Brit, Cdn (=color)
- A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
"a white colour is made up of many different wavelengths of light" - color [US], coloring [US], colouring [Brit, Cdn] - Interest and variety and intensity
"the Puritan Period was lacking in colour" - color [US], vividness - The timbre of a musical sound
"the recording fails to capture the true colour of the original music" - color [US], coloration, colouration [Brit, Cdn] - A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
- color [US], 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 colour" - semblance, gloss, color [US] - Any material used for its colour
"she used a different colour for the trim" - coloring material [US], colouring material [Brit, Cdn], color [US] - (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
"each flavour of quarks comes in three colours" - color [US] - The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- color [US] Verb: colour kúlu(r) Usage: Brit, Cdn (=color)
- Add colour to
"The child coloured the drawings"; "Fall coloured the trees" - color [US], colorize [US], colorise [Brit], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], color in [US], colour in [Brit, Cdn] - Affect as in thought or feeling
"My personal feelings colour my judgment in this case" - tinge, color [US], distort - Modify or bias
"His political ideas colour his lectures" - color [US] - Decorate with colours
"colour the walls with paint in warm tones" - color [US], emblazon - Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
"colour a lie" - color [US], gloss - Change colour, often in an undesired manner
- discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], color [US]
See also: colored [US], colorful [US], colorless [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn], colouring [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 Encyclopedia: Colour Colours Colours, Liturgical Colours, standards and guidons |