| Sounds | kah'ler; kao'ler | |
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| Rhymes | alveolar ... Ziegler: 240 rhymes with ler... | |
| Meaning | Having or capable of producing colors. | |
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| Synonym | colour | |
| Category | photography, picture taking | The act of taking and printing photographs |
| Opposite | black-and-white, black and white | not having or not capable of producing colors |
| Meaning | interest and variety and intensity. | |
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| Example | "the Puritan Period was lacking in color" | |
| Synonyms | colour, vividness | |
| Attributes | colorful, colourful | Having striking color |
| colorless, colourless | Weak in color | |
| Broader | interest, interestingness | The power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) |
| Spanish | energía, intensidad, vivacidad, viveza | |
| Catalan | energia, intensitat, vivacitat, vivor | |
| Meaning | The timbre of a musical sound. | |
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| Example | "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" | |
| Synonyms | colour, coloration, colouration | |
| Broader | timbre, timber, quality, tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) |
| Spanish | color | |
| Catalan | color | |
| Meaning | An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading. | |
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| Example | "the situation soon took on a different color" | |
| Synonyms | semblance, gloss, colour | |
| Narrower | color of law, colour of law | A mere semblance of legal right |
| disguise, camouflage | An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | |
| face value | The apparent worth as opposed to the real worth | |
| guise, pretense, pretence, pretext | An artful or simulated semblance | |
| simulacrum | An insubstantial or vague semblance | |
| verisimilitude | The appearance of truth | |
| Broader | appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
| Spanish | apariencia, color, matiz, semblanza | |
| Catalan | aparença, color, matís, semblant | |
| Meaning | Any material used for its color. | |
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| Example | "she used a different color for the trim" | |
| Synonyms | coloring material, colouring material, colour | |
| Narrower | dye, dyestuff | A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair |
| 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 |
| Spanish | colorante, color, materia colorante, material colorante | |
| Catalan | colorant | |
| Nouns | colorist | a painter able to achieve special effects with color |
| Meaning | (physics) the characteristic / characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction. | |
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| Example | "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors" | |
| Synonym | colour | |
| Category | particle physics, high-energy physics, high energy physics | The branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
| Broader | kind, sort, form, variety | A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic / characteristic or quality |
| Catalan | color | |
| Meaning | The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation. | |
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| Synonym | colour | |
| Broader | appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
| Catalan | color | |
| Nouns | colorist | a painter able to achieve special effects with color |
| Meaning | affect as in thought or feeling. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case" | |
| Synonyms | tinge, colour, distort | |
| Broader | affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch | Have an effect upon |
| Meaning | modify or bias. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "His political ideas color his lectures" | |
| Synonym | colour | |
| Broader | influence, act upon, work | Have and exert influence or effect |
| Spanish | teñir | |
| Meaning | decorate with colors. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "color the walls with paint in warm tones" | |
| Synonyms | colour, emblazon | |
| Narrower | miniate | paint with red lead or vermilion |
| Broader | decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour / colour, etc. |
| Spanish | adornar, colorar, colorear | |
| Catalan | acolorar, acolorir, colorar, colorir, pintar | |
| Nouns | color | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect |
| coloration | choice and use of colors / colors (as by an artist) | |
| colorist | a painter able to achieve special effects with color | |
| Meaning | Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "color a lie" | |
| Synonyms | colour, gloss | |
| Broader | apologize, apologise, excuse, rationalize, rationalise | defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning |
| Spanish | maquillar | |
| Meaning | change color, often in an undesired manner. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "The shirts discolored" | |
| Synonyms | discolor, discolour, colour | |
| Caused by | discolor | Cause to lose or change color |
| Narrower | blacken, melanize, melanise, black | make or become black |
| 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 |
| Spanish | decolorarse, decolorar, descolorar | |
| Catalan | descolorar, descolorir-se, descolorir | |
| Nouns | color | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect |
| coloring | the act or process of changing the color / color of something | |
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