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Color

noun

(Written also colour)

A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect. Synonyms: coloring, colour, colouring.

Interest and variety and intensity. Synonyms: colour, vividness. "The characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"

The timbre of a musical sound. Synonyms: coloration, colour, colouration.

A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks). Synonyms: colour, people of color, people of colour.

An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading. Synonyms: colour, gloss, semblance. "He tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction" , "The situation soon took on a different color"

Any material used for its color. Synonyms: coloring material, colour, colouring material.

(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction. Synonym: 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. Synonym: colour.

verb

(past & past part. colored; pres. part. coloring)

Add color to. Synonyms: color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize. "Fall colored the trees" , "Colorize black and white film"

Affect as in thought or feeling. Synonyms: colour, distort, tinge. "The sadness tinged his life"

Modify or bias. Synonym: colour.

Decorate with colors. Synonyms: colour, emblazon.

Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for. Synonyms: colour, gloss.

Change color, often in an undesired manner. Synonyms: colour, discolor, discolour.

adjective

Having or capable of producing colors. Synonym: colour. "He rented a color television" , "Marvelous color illustrations"