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Ashen vs. Colour — What's the Difference?

Ashen vs. Colour — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ashen and Colour

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Ashen

Consisting of ashes.

Colour

The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light
The lights flickered and changed colour

Ashen

Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale
A face ashen with grief.

Colour

Pigmentation of the skin, especially as an indication of someone's race
Discrimination on the basis of colour

Ashen

Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.
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Colour

Vivid appearance resulting from the juxtaposition of many bright things
For colour, plant groups of winter-flowering pansies

Ashen

Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.

Colour

An item or items of a particular colour worn to identify or distinguish an individual or a member of a group, in particular a jockey or a member of a sports team
It was Devon Loch's first victory in the colours of his royal owner
It will be strange running on to the pitch in another team's colours

Ashen

Of or resembling ashes.
A fine, ashen dust hung in the air.

Colour

A shade of meaning
Many events in her past had taken on a different colour

Ashen

Ash-colored; pale; anemic, anaemic; appalled.
His ashen face belied his claims of good health.

Colour

A quantized property of quarks which can take three values (designated blue, green, and red) for each flavour.

Ashen

(ambitransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy

Colour

Change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it
He coloured her hair with a selection of blonde and brown shades

Ashen

(ambitransitive) To make or become pale

Colour

(of a person or their skin) show embarrassment or shame by becoming red; blush
She coloured slightly

Ashen

Of or pertaining to the ash tree.

Colour

Influence, especially in a negative way; distort
The experiences had coloured her whole existence

Ashen

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
The ashen hue of age.

Colour

Variant of color.

Ashen

Obs. pl. for Ashes.

Colour

Standard spelling of from2=Canada

Ashen

Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion;
A face turned ashen
The invalid's blanched cheeks
Tried to speak with bloodless lips
A face livid with shock
Lips...livid with the hue of death
Lips white with terror
A face white with rage

Colour

Standard spelling of from2=Canada

Ashen

Made of wood of the ash tree

Colour

Standard spelling of from2=Canada

Colour

See Color.

Colour

Any material used for its color;
She used a different color for the trim

Colour

A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

Colour

(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors

Colour

Interest and variety and intensity;
The Puritan Period was lacking in color

Colour

The timbre of a musical sound;
The recording fails to capture the true color of the original music

Colour

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

Colour

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

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

Colour

Modify or bias;
His political ideas color his lectures

Colour

Decorate with colors;
Color the walls with paint in warm tones

Colour

Gloss or excuse;
Color a lie

Colour

Affect as in thought or feeling;
My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
The sadness tinged his life

Colour

Add color to;
The child colored the drawings
Fall colored the trees
Colorize black and white film

Colour

Change color, often in an undesired manner;
The shirts discolored

Colour

Having or capable of producing colors;
Color film
He rented a color television
Marvelous color illustrations

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