color > 15 sensesADJECTIVE | 1 | color, colour | Having or capable of producing colors |
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NOUN | 1 | color, colour, coloring, colouring | A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect |
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2 | color, colour, vividness | Interest and variety and intensity |
3 | color, colour, coloration, colouration | The timbre of a musical sound |
4 | color, colour, people of color, people of colour | A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
5 | color, semblance, gloss, colour | An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading |
6 | color, coloring material, colouring material, colour | Any material used for its color |
7 | color, colour | (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction |
8 | color, 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 |
VERB | 1 | color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in | Add color to |
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2 | color, tinge, colour, distort | Affect as in thought or feeling |
3 | color, colour | Modify or bias |
4 | color, colour, emblazon | Decorate with colors |
5 | color, colour, gloss | Gloss or excuse |
6 | color, discolor, discolour, colour | Change color, often in an undesired manner |
color > noun 1, attributeMeaning | A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect. |
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Examples | "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light" |
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Synonyms | colour, coloring, colouring |
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Attributes | colored, coloured, colorful; uncolored, uncoloured |
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Narrower | heather mixture, heather; shade, tint, tincture, tone; chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour; achromatic color, achromatic colour; coloration, colouration; complexion, skin color, skin colour; nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour |
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Broader | visual property |
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Contrary | colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism |
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Adjectives | chromatic |
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Verbs | color; color, colorize; color |
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color > verb 1, changeMeaning | Add color to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Model | They color their hair |
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Examples | "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" |
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Synonyms | colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in |
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Narrower | blackwash; motley, parti-color; polychrome, polychromize, polychromise; azure; purple, empurple, purpurate; aurify; verdigris; pinkify; incarnadine; embrown; handcolour; pigment; retouch; silver; gray, grey; tone; redden; mottle, streak, blotch |
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Broader | change, alter, modify |
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Contrary | discolor |
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Nouns | coloration; coloring; color, coloring |
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color > verb 6, changeMeaning | Change color, often in an undesired manner. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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Examples | "The shirts discolored" |
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Synonyms | discolor, discolour, colour |
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Caused by | discolor |
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Narrower | blush, crimson, flush, redden; pale, blanch, blench; tan, bronze; sunburn, burn; whiten, white; blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black; turn; silver; dye; redden; purple; gray, grey; yellow; tone; green; blue |
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Broader | change |
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Nouns | color; coloring |
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