Sekirov Dictionary

colouring

/ˈkʌl.ər.ɪŋ/

noun 5
adjective 3
forms 2

noun5

An act or process which applies color.
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Any substance used to give color.
- Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.
An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
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The appearance as to color.
- The Rolands, both U.S.-educated lawyers with faculty positions in the national law school, are olive skinned, with the coloring of some Italians or Sephardic Jews. — 1983
A disguise or discoloration.

adjective3

That colors something.
That conveys or imparts color.
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Of something that provides colour.
- He soon exhausted pleasure, and then reasoned upon it: he soon exhausted it, because he wanted that colouring enthusiasm which creates more than half of what it enjoys;... — 1831

forms

more colouring · most colouring

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