Colours vs. Colour

Coloursnoun

plural of colour

Colournoun

Coloursnoun

(nautical) Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.

Colouradjective

Coloursnoun

same as colors.

Colourverb

Coloursnoun

a distinguishing emblem;

‘his tie proclaimed his school colors’;

Colournoun

See Color.

Coloursnoun

a flag that shows its nationality

Colournoun

any material used for its color;

‘she used a different color for the trim’;

Colournoun

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

Colournoun

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

Colournoun

interest and variety and intensity;

‘the Puritan Period was lacking in color’;

Colournoun

the timbre of a musical sound;

‘the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music’;

Colournoun

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’;

Colournoun

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’;

Colournoun

the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

Colourverb

modify or bias;

‘His political ideas color his lectures’;

Colourverb

decorate with colors;

‘color the walls with paint in warm tones’;

Colourverb

gloss or excuse;

‘color a lie’;

Colourverb

affect as in thought or feeling;

‘My personal feelings color my judgment in this case’; ‘The sadness tinged his life’;

Colourverb

add color to;

‘The child colored the drawings’; ‘Fall colored the trees’; ‘colorize black and white film’;

Colourverb

change color, often in an undesired manner;

‘The shirts discolored’;

Colouradjective

having or capable of producing colors;

‘color film’; ‘he rented a color television’; ‘marvelous color illustrations’;

Colournoun

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’;

Colournoun

one, or any mixture, of the constituents into which light can be separated in a spectrum or rainbow, sometimes including (loosely) black and white

‘a rich brown colour’; ‘a range of bright colours’;

Colournoun

the use of all colours, not only black and white, in photography or television

‘colour television’; ‘he has shot the whole film in colour’;

Colournoun

rosiness or redness of the face as an indication of health or of embarrassment, anger, etc.

‘there was some colour back in his face’; ‘colour flooded her skin as she realized what he meant’;

Colournoun

a substance used to give something a particular colour

‘lip colour’; ‘as with any chemical treatment, colour can cause hair to become dry’;

Colournoun

any of the major conventional colours used in coats of arms (gules, vert, sable, azure, purpure), especially as opposed to the metals, furs, and stains.

Colournoun

any of the balls other than the white cue ball and the reds

‘Hendry potted the last four colours to win 5–4’;

Colournoun

pigmentation of the skin, especially as an indication of someone's race

‘discrimination on the basis of colour’;

Colournoun

a group of people considered as being distinguished by skin pigmentation

‘all colours and nationalities’;

Colournoun

vivid appearance resulting from the juxtaposition of many bright things

‘for colour, plant groups of winter-flowering pansies’;

Colournoun

features that lend a particularly interesting quality to something

‘a town full of colour and character’;

Colournoun

variety of musical tone or expression

‘orchestral colour’;

Colournoun

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’;

Colournoun

a badge, cap, or other item in the distinctive colours of a particular school, awarded to a pupil selected to represent the school in a sport.

Colournoun

the flag of a country, or of a regiment or ship

‘all over the world countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours’; ‘the Cheshire Regiment celebrated its tercentenary with a tattoo and the presentation of the new colours’;

Colournoun

a shade of meaning

‘many events in her past had taken on a different colour’;

Colournoun

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

Colourverb

change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it

‘he coloured her hair with a selection of blonde and brown shades’;

Colourverb

take on a different colour

‘the foliage will not colour well if the soil is too rich’;

Colourverb

fill (a shape or outline) with colour

‘he hated finger-painting and colouring in pictures’;

Colourverb

make vivid or picturesque

‘he has coloured the dance with gestures from cabaret and vaudeville’;

Colourverb

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

‘she coloured slightly’;

Colourverb

cause (a person's skin) to change in colour

‘rage coloured his pale complexion’;

Colourverb

(of an emotion) imbue (a person's voice) with a particular tone

‘surprise coloured her voice’;

Colourverb

influence, especially in a negative way; distort

‘the experiences had coloured her whole existence’;

Colourverb

misrepresent by distortion or exaggeration

‘witnesses might colour evidence to make a story saleable’;

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