color > define

noun

• A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.
  • usage: "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
  • synonyms: colour, coloring, colouring
• Interest and variety and intensity.
  • usage: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
  • synonyms: colour, vividness
• The timbre of a musical sound.
  • usage: "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
  • synonyms: colour, coloration, colouration
• A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks.
  • synonyms: colour, people of color, people of colour
• An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: semblance, gloss, colour
• Any material used for its color.
  • usage: "she used a different color for the trim"
  • synonyms: coloring material, colouring material, colour
• Physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction. (
  • usage: "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
  • synonyms: colour
• The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness. and saturation)
  • synonyms: colour

verb

• Add color to.
  • usage: "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
  • synonyms: colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
• Affect as in thought or feeling.
  • usage: "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
  • synonyms: tinge, colour, distort
• Modify or bias.
  • usage: "His political ideas color his lectures"
  • synonyms: colour
• Decorate with colors.
  • usage: "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
  • synonyms: colour, emblazon
• Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.
  • usage: "color a lie"
  • synonyms: colour, gloss
• Change color, often in an undesired manner.
  • usage: "The shirts discolored"
  • synonyms: discolor, discolour, colour

adjective

• Having or capable of producing colors.
  • usage: "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
  • synonyms: colour

• (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.
• (v.t.) To hide.
• (v.i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
• (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.
• (n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
• (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.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
• (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.
• (n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.