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English adjective: color | |||
| 1. | color having or capable of producing colors | ||
| Samples | Color film. He rented a color television. Marvelous color illustrations. | ||
| Synonyms | colour | ||
| Domain category | photography, picture taking | ||
| Antonyms | black and white, black-and-white | ||
English noun: color | |||
| 1. | color (attribute) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | ||
| Samples | A white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light. | ||
| Synonyms | coloring, colour, colouring | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | visual property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | achromatic color, achromatic colour, chromatic color, chromatic colour, coloration, colouration, complexion, dithered color, dithered colour, heather, heather mixture, mottle, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, primary color, primary colour, shade, skin color, skin colour, spectral color, spectral colour, tincture, tint, tone | ||
| Attribute | colored, colorful, coloured, uncolored, uncoloured | ||
| Antonyms | achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness | ||
| 2. | color (attribute) interest and variety and intensity | ||
| Samples | The Puritan Period was lacking in color. The characters were delineated with exceptional vividness. | ||
| Synonyms | colour, vividness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | interest, interestingness | ||
| Attribute | colorful, colorless, colourful, colourless | ||
| 3. | color (attribute) the timbre of a musical sound | ||
| Samples | The recording fails to capture the true color of the original music. | ||
| Synonyms | coloration, colour, colouration | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality, timber, timbre, tone | ||
| 4. | color (group) a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) | ||
| Synonyms | colour, people of color, people of colour | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | race | ||
| Member holonym | person of color, person of colour | ||
| 5. | color (attribute) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | colour, gloss, semblance | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | appearance, visual aspect | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | camouflage, color of law, colour of law, disguise, face value, guise, pretence, pretense, pretext, simulacrum, verisimilitude | ||
| 6. | color (substance) any material used for its color | ||
| Samples | She used a different color for the trim. | ||
| Synonyms | coloring material, colour, colouring material | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | material, stuff | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dye, dyestuff, hematochrome, indicator, mordant, paint, pigment, pigment, pigment, stain, tincture | ||
| 7. | color (cognition) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction | ||
| Samples | Each flavor of quarks comes in three colors. | ||
| Synonyms | colour | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | form, kind, sort, variety | ||
| Domain category | high energy physics, high-energy physics, particle physics | ||
| 8. | color (attribute) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | ||
| Synonyms | colour | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | appearance, visual aspect | ||
English verb: color | |||
| 1. | color (change) add color to | ||
| Samples | The child colored the drawings. Fall colored the trees. Colorize black and white film. | ||
| Examples | They color their hair | ||
| Synonyms | color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aurify, azure, blackwash, blotch, brown, embrown, empurple, gray, grey, handcolor, handcolour, hue, imbue, incarnadine, motley, mottle, parti-color, pigment, pinkify, polychrome, polychromise, polychromize, purple, purpurate, redden, retouch, silver, streak, tinct, tinge, tint, tone, touch, verdigris | ||
| Antonyms | discolor | ||
| 2. | color (communication) affect as in thought or feeling | ||
| Samples | My personal feelings color my judgment in this case. The sadness tinged his life. | ||
| Synonyms | colour, distort, tinge | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on | ||
| 3. | color (social) modify or bias | ||
| Samples | His political ideas color his lectures. | ||
| Synonyms | colour | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | act upon, influence, work | ||
| 4. | color (creation) decorate with colors | ||
| Samples | Color the walls with paint in warm tones. | ||
| Synonyms | colour, emblazon | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | miniate | ||
| 5. | color (communication) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | ||
| Samples | Color a lie. | ||
| Synonyms | colour, gloss | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | apologise, apologize, excuse, justify, rationalise, rationalize | ||
| 6. | color (change) change color, often in an undesired manner | ||
| Samples | The shirts discolored. | ||
| Synonyms | colour, discolor, discolour | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | black, blacken, blanch, blench, blue, blush, bronze, burn, crimson, dye, flush, gray, green, grey, melanise, melanize, nigrify, pale, purple, redden, redden, silver, sunburn, tan, tone, turn, white, whiten, yellow | ||
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