English > color: 14 senses > noun 1, attributeMeaning | A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect. |
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Example | "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light" |
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Synonyms | colour, coloring, colouring |
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Attributes | colored, coloured, colorful | Having color or a certain color |
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uncolored, uncoloured | Without color |
Narrower | achromatic color, achromatic colour | A color lacking hue |
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chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | A color that has hue |
coloration, colouration | appearance with regard to color |
complexion, skin color, skin colour | The coloring of a person's face |
heather mixture, heather | interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color |
mottle | An irregular arrangement of patches of color |
nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour | A color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color |
primary color, primary colour | Any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing |
shade, tint, tincture, tone | A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color |
Broader | visual property | An attribute of vision |
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Opposite | colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism, achromaticity | The visual property of being without chromatic color |
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Spanish | coloración, colorido, color, tez |
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Catalan | coloració, color |
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Adjectives | chromatic | able to refract light without spectral color separation |
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Nouns | colorist | a painter able to achieve special effects with color |
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Verbs | color, colorize | add color to |
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color | change color, often in an undesired manner |
color | decorate with colors |
English > color: 14 senses > noun 5, substanceMeaning | Any material used for its color. |
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Example | "she used a different color for the trim" |
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Synonyms | coloring material, colouring material, colour |
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Narrower | dye, dyestuff | A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair |
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hematochrome | A reddish coloring material found in some algae |
indicator | (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance |
mordant | A substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing |
paint, pigment | A substance used as a coating / coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid / liquid) |
pigment | dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid / liquid to produce paint, etc.) |
pigment | Any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color |
stain | (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible |
tincture | A substances that colors metals |
Broader | material, stuff | The tangible / tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
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Spanish | colorante, color, materia colorante, material colorante |
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Catalan | colorant |
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Nouns | colorist | a painter able to achieve special effects with color |
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English > color: 14 senses > verb 1, changeMeaning | add color to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Model | They color their hair |
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Examples | - "The child colored the drawings"
- "Fall colored the trees"
- "colorize black and white film"
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Synonyms | colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in |
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Narrower | aurify | Turn golden |
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azure | color azure |
blackwash | color with blackwash |
embrown, brown | make brown in color |
grey, gray | make grey |
handcolor, handcolour | color by hand |
imbue, hue | suffuse with color |
incarnadine | make flesh-colored |
motley, parti-color | make motley |
mottle, streak, blotch | mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained |
pigment | color or dye with a pigment |
pinkify | make pink |
polychrome, polychromize, polychromise | color with many colors |
purple, empurple, purpurate | color purple |
redden | make red |
retouch | Give retouches to (hair) |
silver | make silver in color |
tint, tinct, tinge, touch | color lightly |
tone | change to a color image |
verdigris | color verdigris |
Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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Opposite | discolor | Lose color / color or turn colorless |
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Spanish | colorar, colorear |
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Catalan | acolorar, acolorir, colorar, colorir, pintar |
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Nouns | color, coloring | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect |
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coloration | choice and use of colors / colors (as by an artist) |
coloring | a digestible substance used to give color to food |
English > color: 14 senses > verb 6, changeMeaning | change color, often in an undesired manner. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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Example | "The shirts discolored" |
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Synonyms | discolor, discolour, colour |
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Caused by | discolor | Cause to lose or change color |
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Narrower | blacken, melanize, melanise, black | make or become black |
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blue | Turn blue |
blush, crimson, flush, redden | Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame |
dye | color with dye |
green | Turn or become green |
grey, gray | Turn grey |
pale, blanch, blench | Turn pale, as if in fear |
purple | Become purple |
redden | Turn red or redder |
silver | Turn silver |
sunburn, burn | Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun |
tan, bronze | Get a tan, from wind or sun |
tone | change the color or tone of |
turn | change color / color |
whiten, white | Turn white |
yellow | Turn yellow |
Broader | change | Undergo a change |
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Spanish | decolorarse, decolorar, descolorar |
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Catalan | descolorar, descolorir-se, descolorir |
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Nouns | color | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect |
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coloring | the act or process of changing the color / color of something |