English > color: 14 senses > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | 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, substance| Meaning | 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, change| Meaning | 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, change| Meaning | 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 |
