Color, colour
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English
Alternate Spellings
- color (American)
- colour (outside US)
Etymology
From Latin "color" via Old French "coulour"; in American spelling the 'u' was dropped from colour to aid in spelling. In British spelling the 'u' remains.
Noun
(US) color (uncountable and countable; plural: colors)
(outside US) colour (uncountable and countable; plural: colours)
- The spectral composition of visible light
- Humans and birds can perceive color.
- A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and greys).
- He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color".
- Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- (figuratively) interest, especially in a selective area.#
- a bit of local color.
- 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.
- Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
- (physics) An abstract property of quarks (elementary particles), which may take the values red, green, or blue, although it is not related in any way to light or spectral hue.
- See also Wikipedia: color
Adjective
(US) color (outside US) colour (absolute so no comparative or superlative forms)
- Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey
- Colour television and films were considered a great improvement over black and white
Related terms
- Colorise
- Colorize
- Coloured
- colourful
- Colourless
- Colours
- True colours
- color charge
- Color commentator
- colored
- colors
- Off-color
- See Appendix:Colours
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Verb
(US) color, colors, coloring, colored
(outside US) colour, colours, colouring, coloured
- To give something colour
- We could colour the walls red
- To draw within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons
- My son loves to colour
- (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow
- To affect without completely changing
- That interpretation certainly colours my perception of the book
- (colloquial) To attribute a quality to
- Colour me confused
Synonyms
- colour in
Related terms
- colour by numbers
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