Color vs. Colorway

Colornoun

(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light

Colornoun

(countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.

Colornoun

(uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).

Colornoun

(uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.

Colornoun

(figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.

Colornoun

(heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.

Colornoun

(in the plural) A standard or banner.

Colornoun

The system of color television.

Colornoun

(in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.

Colornoun

(in the plural) Gang insignia.

Colornoun

(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.

Colornoun

The morning ceremony of raising the flag.

Colornoun

In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.

Colornoun

(physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.

Colornoun

A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.

Colornoun

(typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.

Colornoun

(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.

Colornoun

A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.

Colornoun

An appearance of right or authority.

Colornoun

(medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.

Coloradjective

Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

Colorverb

To give something color.

Colorverb

(intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

Colorverb

(of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.

Colorverb

To affect without completely changing.

Colorverb

(informal) To attribute a quality to.

Colorverb

(mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.

Colornoun

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

Colornoun

Any hue distinguished from white or black.

Colornoun

The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.

Colornoun

That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.

Colornoun

That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.

Colornoun

Shade or variety of character; kind; species.

Colornoun

A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).

Colornoun

An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.

Colorverb

To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.

Colorverb

To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.

Colorverb

To hide.

Colorverb

To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

Colornoun

a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect;

Colornoun

interest and variety and intensity;

Colornoun

the timbre of a musical sound;

Colornoun

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

Colornoun

an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading;

Colornoun

any material used for its color;

Colornoun

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

Colornoun

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

Colorverb

add color to;

Colorverb

affect as in thought or feeling;

Colorverb

modify or bias;

Colorverb

decorate with colors;

Colorverb

gloss or excuse;

Colorverb

change color, often in an undesired manner;

Coloradjective

having or capable of producing colors;

Color

Color (American English), or colour (Commonwealth English), is the characteristic of visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple. This perception of color derives from the stimulation of photoreceptor cells (in particular cone cells in the human eye and other vertebrate eyes) by electromagnetic radiation (in the visible spectrum in the case of humans).

Colorwaynoun

(arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.