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English noun: colouring | |||
| 1. | colouring (food) a digestible substance used to give color to food | ||
| Samples | Food color made from vegetable dyes. | ||
| Synonyms | coloring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | food product, foodstuff | ||
| 2. | colouring (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 | color, coloring, colour | ||
| 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 | ||
| 3. | colouring (act) the act or process of changing the color of something | ||
| Synonyms | coloring | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change of color | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dyeing, hair coloring, tinting | ||
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