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单词 colours
释义 Noun: colours
Usage: Brit, Cdn (=colors)
  1. A flag that shows its nationality
    - colors [US] 
  2. A distinguishing emblem
    "his tie proclaimed his school colours"
    - colors [US]
Noun: colour  kúlu(r)
Usage: Brit, Cdn (=color)
  1. 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] 
  2. Interest and variety and intensity
    "the Puritan Period was lacking in colour"
    - color [US], vividness 
  3. The timbre of a musical sound
    "the recording fails to capture the true colour of the original music"
    - color [US], coloration, colouration [Brit, Cdn] 
  4. A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
    - color [US], people of color [US], people of colour [Brit, Cdn] 
  5. An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
    "the situation soon took on a different colour"
    - semblance, gloss, color [US] 
  6. Any material used for its colour
    "she used a different colour for the trim"
    - coloring material [US], colouring material [Brit, Cdn], color [US] 
  7. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
    "each flavour of quarks comes in three colours"
    - color [US] 
  8. 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)
  1. 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] 
  2. Affect as in thought or feeling
    "My personal feelings colour my judgment in this case"
    - tinge, color [US], distort 
  3. Modify or bias
    "His political ideas colour his lectures"
    - color [US] 
  4. Decorate with colours
    "colour the walls with paint in warm tones"
    - color [US], emblazon 
  5. Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
    "colour a lie"
    - color [US], gloss 
  6. 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

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