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1. colors, colours -- (a flag that shows its nationality).
2. colors, colours -- (a distinguishing emblem; "his tie proclaimed his school colors").
1. 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").
2. color, colour, vividness -- (interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color").
3. color, colour, coloration, colouration -- (the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music").
4. color, colour, people of color, people of colour -- (a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)).
5. 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").
6. coloring material, colouring material, color, colour -- (any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim").
7. color, colour -- ((physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors).
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).

1. 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").
2. tinge, color, colour, distort -- (affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life").
3. color, colour -- (modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures").
4. color, colour, emblazon -- (decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones").
5. color, colour, gloss -- (gloss or excuse; "color a lie").
6. discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored").

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