Sekirov Dictionary

colour

UK /ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ)/US /ˈkʌl.ɚ/

noun 26
verb 8
adjective 1
forms 6
phrases 7

noun26

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the quality of light that makes things look red, blue, yellow or green
- Humans and birds can perceive color.
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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?
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Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
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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.
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Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
A standard, flag, or insignia.
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[in the plural] The flag of a nation or team.
- The colors were raised over the new territory.
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A paint.
- The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
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(figurative) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
- Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
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[in the plural] A standard or banner.
- The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
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A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country. — 2011
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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.
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.
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[in the plural] Gang insignia.
- Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
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[in the plural] An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- He was awarded colors for his football.
Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
The quality of a particular vowel sound.
Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
[in the plural] 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.
Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
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Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal. — 2013
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(slang) To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get".
- The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
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.

verb8

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To give something color.
- We could color the walls red.
To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
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To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- My kindergartener loves to color.
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To affect without completely changing.
- That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
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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.
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To become red through increased blood flow.
- Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
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(informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- Color me confused.
- They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
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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.

adjective1

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Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
- Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.

forms

colour'd · coloured · colouring · coloureth · colours · colourest

Phrases with colour

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