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Meaning of colour
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
colour
adj 1: having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he
rented a color television"; "marvelous color
illustrations" [syn: {color}, {colour}] [ant: {black and
white(p)}, {black-and-white}]
n 1: any material used for its color; "she used a different
color for the trim" [syn: {coloring material}, {colouring
material}, {color}, {colour}]
2: a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race
(especially Blacks) [syn: {color}, {colour}, {people of
color}, {people of colour}]
3: (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their
role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes
in three colors" [syn: {color}, {colour}]
4: interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was
lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with
exceptional vividness" [syn: {color}, {colour}, {vividness}]
5: the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to
capture the true color of the original music" [syn: {color},
{colour}, {coloration}, {colouration}]
6: a visual attribute of things that results from the light they
emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of
many different wavelengths of light" [syn: {color}, {colour},
{coloring}, {colouring}] [ant: {achromaticity},
{achromatism}, {colorlessness}, {colourlessness}]
7: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately
misleading; "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" [syn: {semblance}, {gloss}, {color}, {colour}]
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 [syn: {color}, {colour}]
v 1: modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
[syn: {color}, {colour}]
2: decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm
tones" [syn: {color}, {colour}, {emblazon}]
3: give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie"
[syn: {color}, {colour}, {gloss}]
4: affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color
my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
[syn: {tinge}, {color}, {colour}, {distort}]
5: add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored
the trees"; "colorize black and white film" [syn: {color},
{colorize}, {colorise}, {colourise}, {colourize}, {colour},
{color in}, {colour in}] [ant: {discolor}]
6: change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts
discolored" [syn: {discolor}, {discolour}, {colour}, {color}]
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