Colour vs. Creed

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See Color.

any material used for its color;

Example: ‘she used a different color for the trim’;

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

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

interest and variety and intensity;

Example: ‘the Puritan Period was lacking in color’;

the timbre of a musical sound;

Example: ‘the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music’;

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

Example: ‘a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light’;

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

Example: ‘he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity’; ‘he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction’; ‘the situation soon took on a different color’;

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

modify or bias;

Example: ‘His political ideas color his lectures’;

decorate with colors;

Example: ‘color the walls with paint in warm tones’;

gloss or excuse;

Example: ‘color a lie’;

affect as in thought or feeling;

Example: ‘My personal feelings color my judgment in this case’; ‘The sadness tinged his life’;

add color to;

Example: ‘The child colored the drawings’; ‘Fall colored the trees’; ‘colorize black and white film’;

change color, often in an undesired manner;

Example: ‘The shirts discolored’;

having or capable of producing colors;

Example: ‘color film’; ‘he rented a color television’; ‘marvelous color illustrations’;

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

Example: ‘the lights flickered and changed colour’;

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

Example: ‘a rich brown colour’; ‘a range of bright colours’;

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

Example: ‘colour television’; ‘he has shot the whole film in colour’;

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

Example: ‘there was some colour back in his face’; ‘colour flooded her skin as she realized what he meant’;

a substance used to give something a particular colour

Example: ‘lip colour’; ‘as with any chemical treatment, colour can cause hair to become dry’;

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.

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

Example: ‘Hendry potted the last four colours to win 5–4’;

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

Example: ‘discrimination on the basis of colour’;

a group of people considered as being distinguished by skin pigmentation

Example: ‘all colours and nationalities’;

vivid appearance resulting from the juxtaposition of many bright things

Example: ‘for colour, plant groups of winter-flowering pansies’;

features that lend a particularly interesting quality to something

Example: ‘a town full of colour and character’;

variety of musical tone or expression

Example: ‘orchestral colour’;

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

Example: ‘it was Devon Loch's first victory in the colours of his royal owner’; ‘it will be strange running on to the pitch in another team's colours’;

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.

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

Example: ‘all over the world countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours’; ‘the Cheshire Regiment celebrated its tercentenary with a tattoo and the presentation of the new colours’;

a shade of meaning

Example: ‘many events in her past had taken on a different colour’;

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

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

Example: ‘he coloured her hair with a selection of blonde and brown shades’;

take on a different colour

Example: ‘the foliage will not colour well if the soil is too rich’;

fill (a shape or outline) with colour

Example: ‘he hated finger-painting and colouring in pictures’;

make vivid or picturesque

Example: ‘he has coloured the dance with gestures from cabaret and vaudeville’;

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

Example: ‘she coloured slightly’;

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

Example: ‘rage coloured his pale complexion’;

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

Example: ‘surprise coloured her voice’;

influence, especially in a negative way; distort

Example: ‘the experiences had coloured her whole existence’;

misrepresent by distortion or exaggeration

Example: ‘witnesses might colour evidence to make a story saleable’;

That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.

Example: ‘A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs’;

(rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.

(ambitransitive) To believe; to credit.

(intransitive) To provide with a creed.

A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.

Example: ‘In the Protestant system the creed is not coördinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible.’;

Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

Example: ‘I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed.’;

To believe; to credit.

Example: ‘That part which is so creeded by the people.’;

any system of principles or beliefs

the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

a system of religious belief; a faith

Example: ‘people of many creeds and cultures’;

a formal statement of Christian beliefs, especially the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed

Example: ‘the godparents will then swear that they believe in the Creed and the Commandments’;

a set of beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions

Example: ‘liberalism was more than a political creed’;

A creed, also known as a confession of faith, symbol, or statement of faith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of (an often religious) community in a form structured by subjects summarizing core tenets. Although some say Judaism is noncreedal in nature, others say it recognizes a single creed, the Shema Yisrael, which begins: The earliest creed in Christianity, , originated in the writings of Paul the Apostle.

Example: ‘Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.’; ‘Jesus is Lord’;