color
nounEtymology
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. 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).
Definitions
The spectral composition of visible light.
- Humans and birds can perceive color.
A subset thereof
A subset thereof:
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- What color are your bf's eyes?
A paint.
- The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
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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…
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
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- […] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage.
Richness of expression
Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- color commentator
- color commentary
- There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
A standard, flag, or insignia
A standard, flag, or insignia:
- The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
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…
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…
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…
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
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.
An appearance of right or authority
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.
- The only thing which this defendant is accused of doing is that he excluded this boy from the school, and he did it under the color of the statute relating to the subject, and did it because he was a colored boy.
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.
To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
- The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- In other words, Brahms saves the higher violin color for the more important foreground statement and assigns the soft swirling background to middle-register violins and violas, while the cellos dominate in their best voice.
The quality of a particular vowel sound.
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
- Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
- I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one.
To give something color.
- We could color the walls red.
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored…
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 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…
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.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- synonymblee
- synonymcolor
- synonymhue
- synonymshade
- synonymtincture
- synonymtint
- antonymdecolor
- neighbor:Category:Colors
- neighborAppendix:Colors
- neighborphysical property
- neighboraccidental color
- neighborbodycolor
- neighborcolor of law
- neighbordeep color
- neighboreye color
- neighborforecolor
- neighborhigh color
- neighborhypercolor
- neighborlocal color
Derived
anticolor, bicolor, bodycolor, coat color dilution lethal, colorability, color analyst, color announcer, color banding, color bar, color barrier, colorbearer, colorblind, color-blind, color blind, color blindness, colorbreed, colorburst, colorcast, color center, color charge, color-code, color code, color-coded, color coded, color commentator, color compass, color confinement, color constancy, color-coordinate, color coordinate, color coordinate system, color coordination, color depth, color fade, colorfast, colorfastness, color field, color-flavor, color-flavor locking, color font · +154 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at color. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at color. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at color
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA