Color
['kʌlə(r)] or ['kʌlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the timbre of a musical sound; 'the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music'.
(noun.) interest and variety and intensity; 'the Puritan Period was lacking in color'; 'the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness'.
(noun.) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; 'each flavor of quarks comes in three colors'.
(noun.) a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).
(verb.) add color to; 'The child colored the drawings'; 'Fall colored the trees'; 'colorize black and white film'.
(verb.) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; 'color a lie'.
(verb.) decorate with colors; 'color the walls with paint in warm tones'.
(verb.) modify or bias; 'His political ideas color his lectures'.
(adj.) having or capable of producing colors; 'color film'; 'he rented a color television'; 'marvelous color illustrations' .
Editor: Tamara--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
(n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.
(n.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
(n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
(n.) That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
(n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
(n.) A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
(n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
(v. t.) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
(v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
(v. t.) To hide.
(v. i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Editor: Sidney
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hue, tint, tinge, shade.[2]. Pigment, paint.[3]. Plea, pretext, pretence, excuse, guise, disguise, semblance, appearance, make-shift, false show.
v. a. [1]. Tinge, dye, paint, stain.[2]. Disguise, varnish, gloss over, make plausible.
v. n. Redden, blush, show color.
Inputed by Bartholomew
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling, falsification,distortion, perversion, varnish
ANT:Achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness, transparency,truthfulness
Inputed by Julio
Examples
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Sir James interpreted the heightened color in the way most gratifying to himself, and thought he never saw Miss Brooke looking so handsome. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The length of time in boiling depends upon the depth of color desired. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It seemed to be of an unnatural color, and to have a strange rigidity about the features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Before a lobster is cooked he is green, that being the color of the rocks around which he lives on the bottom of the ocean. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But fabrics immersed in a bleaching powder solution do not lose their color as would naturally be expected. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What is the Natural Color of Goldfish? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The lines are much clearer, and the color brighter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- So much was done and gone, that when I went out at the gate, the light of the day seemed of a darker color than when I went in. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Some people have freckles, when others do not, because all skins are not alike, just the same as eyes are not all of one color. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was the tortoise-shell lozenge-box, and Dorothea felt the color mounting to her cheeks. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It's all very well for Ladislaw to put that color on it, said Sir James. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now compress the artery leading from the organ, and the part between the heart and the point of pressur e, and the heart itself, become distended and take on a deep purple color. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Let us assume that we have a painting or a drawing in colors from which it is desired to produce a set of printing plates to produce that drawing in facsimile. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The back of his ware is never all the same color, but usually mottled with several colors, often yellow, blue, and brown. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Many magazines print two colors for covers and inside pages, instead of full four-color printings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What seems even more wonderful is that these spectral colors can be recombined so as to make white light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The colors formed in this way do not appear to the eye different from the spectrum colors, but they are actually very different. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Rainbow colors recombined to form white light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The nerve fibers of the eye which carry the sensation of color to the brain are particularly sensitive to the primary colors--red, green, blue. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The engines and dynamos made a horrible racket, from loud and deep groans to a hideous shriek, and the place seemed to be filled with sparks and flames of all colors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These are the spectrum colors often seen radiating from a diamond. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pure, Simple Colors--Things as they Seem. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Stained-glass windows owe their charm and beauty to the presence in the glass of various dyes and pigments which absorb in different amounts some colors from white light and transmit others. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- White light is not a simple light, but is composed of all the colors which appear in the rainbow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Carpets thus treated regain their original colors in all their freshness, the entire operation of washing and drying a large carpet requiring but two hours, and the carpet need not be taken up. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Editor: Pierre