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Adjective colour has 1 sense
- color, colour - having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
Noun colour has 8 senses
- coloring material, colouring material, color, colour - any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
--1 is a kind of material, stuff
--1 has particulars:
- color, colour, people of color, people of colour - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
--2 is a kind of race
--2 has members: person of color, person of colour
- color, colour - (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
--3 is a kind of kind, sort, form, variety
- color, colour, vividness - interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
--4 is a kind of interest, interestingness
- color, colour, coloration, colouration - the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
--5 is a kind of timbre, timber, quality, tone
- color, colour, coloring, colouring - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
--6 is a kind of visual property
--6 has particulars: | | 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 |
- semblance, gloss, color, colour - an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "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"
--7 is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
--7 has particulars:
- 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
--8 is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
Verb colour has 6 senses
- color, colour - modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
--1 is one way to influence, act upon, work
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- color, colour, emblazon - decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
--2 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
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- color, colour, gloss - gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
--3 is one way to apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
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- tinge, color, colour, distort - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
--4 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
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- color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- discolor, discolour, colour, color - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
--6 is one way to change
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