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Meaning of color in English
Pronunciation
/ˈkələr/
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Verb
color
Definitions
1.
add color to
Examples
« The child colored the drawings »
« Fall colored the trees »
« colorize black and white film »
Antonyms
discolor
2.
affect as in thought or feeling
Examples
« My personal feelings color my judgment in this case »
« The sadness tinged his life »
3.
modify or bias
Examples
« His political ideas color his lectures »
4.
decorate with colors
Examples
« color the walls with paint in warm tones »
5.
gloss or excuse
Examples
« color a lie »
6.
change color, often in an undesired manner
Examples
« The shirts discolored »
Noun
color
Etymology
Middle English: from Old French colour (noun), colourer (verb), from Latin color (noun), colorare (verb)
Definitions
1.
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Examples
« a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light »
Antonyms
colorlessness
colourlessness
achromatism
2.
interest and variety and intensity
Examples
« the Puritan Period was lacking in color »
3.
the timbre of a musical sound
Examples
« the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music »
4.
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
5.
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
Examples
« he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity »
« he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction »
« the situation soon took on a different color »
6.
any material used for its color
Examples
« she used a different color for the trim »
7.
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
Examples
« each flavor of quarks comes in three colors »
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
Qualitative Adjective
color
Definitions
1.
having or capable of producing colors
Examples
« color film »
« he rented a color television »
« marvelous color illustrations »
Antonyms
black-and-white
black and white(p)