Color vs. Colour

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).

Colournoun

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Colouradjective

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Colourverb

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Colournoun

See Color.

Colournoun

any material used for its color;

Colournoun

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

Colournoun

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

Colournoun

interest and variety and intensity;

Colournoun

the timbre of a musical sound;

Colournoun

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

Colournoun

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

Colournoun

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

Colourverb

modify or bias;

Colourverb

decorate with colors;

Colourverb

gloss or excuse;

Colourverb

affect as in thought or feeling;

Colourverb

add color to;

Colourverb

change color, often in an undesired manner;

Colouradjective

having or capable of producing colors;

Colournoun

the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light

Colournoun

one, or any mixture, of the constituents into which light can be separated in a spectrum or rainbow, sometimes including (loosely) black and white

Colournoun

the use of all colours, not only black and white, in photography or television

Colournoun

rosiness or redness of the face as an indication of health or of embarrassment, anger, etc.

Colournoun

a substance used to give something a particular colour

Colournoun

any of the major conventional colours used in coats of arms (gules, vert, sable, azure, purpure), especially as opposed to the metals, furs, and stains.

Colournoun

any of the balls other than the white cue ball and the reds

Colournoun

pigmentation of the skin, especially as an indication of someone's race

Colournoun

a group of people considered as being distinguished by skin pigmentation

Colournoun

vivid appearance resulting from the juxtaposition of many bright things

Colournoun

features that lend a particularly interesting quality to something

Colournoun

variety of musical tone or expression

Colournoun

an item or items of a particular colour worn to identify or distinguish an individual or a member of a group, in particular a jockey or a member of a sports team

Colournoun

a badge, cap, or other item in the distinctive colours of a particular school, awarded to a pupil selected to represent the school in a sport.

Colournoun

the flag of a country, or of a regiment or ship

Colournoun

a shade of meaning

Colournoun

a quantized property of quarks which can take three values (designated blue, green, and red) for each flavour.

Colourverb

change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it

Colourverb

take on a different colour

Colourverb

fill (a shape or outline) with colour

Colourverb

make vivid or picturesque

Colourverb

(of a person or their skin) show embarrassment or shame by becoming red; blush

Colourverb

cause (a person's skin) to change in colour

Colourverb

(of an emotion) imbue (a person's voice) with a particular tone

Colourverb

influence, especially in a negative way; distort

Colourverb

misrepresent by distortion or exaggeration