color.
The spectral composition of visible light.
Meaning & usage
The spectral composition of visible light.
Humans and birds can perceive color.
A subset thereof: A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
What color are your bf's eyes?
A subset thereof: Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
A subset thereof: These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
This film is broadcast in color.
Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
A subset thereof: Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
A paint.
The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
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A standard, flag, or insignia: A standard or banner.
The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
A standard, flag, or insignia: The flag of a nation or team.
The colors were raised over the new territory.
A standard, flag, or insignia: Gang insignia.
Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
He was awarded colors for his football.
The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
They held possession under color of title.
Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get".
The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
The quality of a particular vowel sound.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
To give something color.
We could color the walls red.
To give something color. To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
My kindergartener loves to color.
To become red through increased blood flow.
Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
To affect without completely changing.
That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
Color me confused.
They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
Can this graph be 2-colored?
You can color any map with four colors.
To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
Many languages have a "neutral", roughly central vowel like /a/ or /ə/ which can be colored to a back, rounded vowel like [o] by an adjacent labialized consonant, or to a front, unrounded vowel like [e] by an adjacent palatalized consonant.
The Proto-Indo-European laryngeal *h₂ often colors the neutral vowel *e with an a-like quality, while *h₃ results in a more o-like quality; *h₁ has no coloring effect.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
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