Color vs. Tone

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).

Tonenoun

(music) A specific pitch.

Tonenoun

(music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

Tonenoun

(music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.

Tonenoun

The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.

Tonenoun

General character, mood, or trend.

Tonenoun

(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

Tonenoun

(dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

Tonenoun

(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.

Tonenoun

(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

Tonenoun

The shade or quality of a colour.

Tonenoun

The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

Tonenoun

The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus

Tonenoun

(biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Tonenoun

(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

Toneverb

(transitive) to give a particular tone to

Toneverb

(transitive) to change the colour of

Toneverb

(transitive) to make (something) firmer

Toneverb

(intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour

Toneverb

(transitive) To utter with an affected tone.

Tonepronoun

The one (of two).

Tonenoun

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

Tonenoun

Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

Tonenoun

A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

Tonenoun

A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

Tonenoun

That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Tonenoun

Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

Tonenoun

State of mind; temper; mood.

Tonenoun

Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

Tonenoun

General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

Tonenoun

The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; - commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

Tonenoun

Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone.

Tonenoun

Color quality proper; - called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.

Tonenoun

The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture.

Toneverb

To utter with an affected tone.

Toneverb

To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

Toneverb

To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

Tonenoun

the quality of a person's voice;

Tonenoun

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages;

Tonenoun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);

Tonenoun

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

Tonenoun

a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

Tonenoun

a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;

Tonenoun

a steady sound without overtones;

Tonenoun

the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli;

Tonenoun

a musical interval of two semitones

Toneverb

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically;

Toneverb

of one's speech, varying the pitch

Toneverb

change the color or tone of;

Toneverb

change to a color image;

Toneverb

give a healthy elasticity to;

Tonenoun

a modulation of the voice expressing a particular feeling or mood

Tonenoun

a musical note or other sound used as a signal on a telephone or answering machine.

Tonenoun

the particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a shade of a colour

Tonenoun

the general effect of colour or of light and shade in a picture.

Tonenoun

a slight degree of difference in the intensity of a colour.

Tonenoun

(in some languages, such as Chinese) a particular pitch pattern on a syllable used to make semantic distinctions.

Tonenoun

(in some languages, such as English) intonation on a word or phrase used to add functional meaning.

Tonenoun

the normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle

Tonenoun

the normal level of activity in a nerve fibre

Toneverb

give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle)

Toneverb

(of a muscle or other bodily part) became stronger or firmer

Toneverb

harmonize with (something) in terms of colour

Toneverb

give (a monochrome picture) an altered colour in finishing by means of a chemical solution