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How to pronounce color in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms coloring material, colour, colouring material
Type of material, stuff
Has types stain, pigment, dye, dyestuff, tincture, indicator, hematochrome, mordant, paint
Derivation colorist


she used a different color for the trim.
Type Words
Synonyms colour
Type of variety, kind, sort, form


each flavor of quarks comes in three colors.
Type Words
Synonyms colour


color film.
he rented a color television.
marvelous color illustrations.
Type Words
Synonyms colour, emblazon
Type of decorate, grace, embellish, ornament, beautify, adorn
Has types miniate
Derivation colorist, coloration


color the walls with paint in warm tones.
Type Words
Synonyms colour, gloss
Type of apologise, rationalize, excuse, rationalise, apologize


color a lie.
Type Words
Synonyms colour, discolor, discolour
Type of change
Has types tan, sunburn, silver, redden, grey, dye, flush, crimson, burn, bronze, whiten, melanise, melanize, white, blush, blue, blench, gray, pale, blanch, blacken, black, green, turn, tone, yellow, purple
Derivation coloring


The shirts discolored.
Type Words
Synonyms colour
Type of appearance, visual aspect
Derivation colorist
Type Words
Synonyms colour, vividness
Type of interest, interestingness


the Puritan Period was lacking in color.
Type Words
Synonyms colour
Type of work, influence, act upon


His political ideas color his lectures.
Type Words
Synonyms colour, gloss, semblance
Type of visual aspect, appearance
Has types pretense, pretext, disguise, camouflage, pretence, simulacrum, face value, verisimilitude, colour of law, color of law, guise


the situation soon took on a different color.
Type Words
Synonyms coloration, colour, colouration
Type of timber, timbre, tone, quality


the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music.
Type Words
Synonyms coloring, colour, colouring
Type of visual property
Has types heather, achromatic colour, chromatic color, chromatic colour, coloration, colouration, complexion, dithered color, dithered colour, achromatic color, heather mixture, mottle, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, primary color, primary colour, shade, skin color, skin colour, spectral color, spectral colour, tincture, tint, tone
Derivation colorist, colorize


a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light.
Type Words
Synonyms colour, distort, tinge
Type of impact, affect, bear on, touch on, bear upon, touch


My personal feelings color my judgment in this case.
Type Words
Synonyms color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize
Type of modify, alter, change
Has types pigment, blackwash, parti-color, mottle, blotch, motley, incarnadine, brown, tinct, polychrome, pinkify, imbue, hue, handcolour, handcolor, grey, embrown, empurple, gray, verdigris, touch, tone, tint, tinge, azure, streak, silver, retouch, redden, purpurate, purple, polychromize, polychromise, aurify
Derivation coloring, coloration


The child colored the drawings.
Fall colored the trees.
colorize black and white film.

Examples of color

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Barack Obama was another color, obviously, and he seemingly came out of nowhere.
From the newsweek.com
The children then began to show that they know rainbow color order with markers.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Pale lavender, on the extreme end of this color group, can be used as a neutral.
From the omaha.com
It's a book of few words and beautiful color photography by Georgia Glynn Smith.
From the dailynews.com
We talked the producers into allowing us to rerecord the first episode in color.
From the sfgate.com
There's a universal color that is supposed to be appropriate for all eye colors.
From the freep.com
The flowers themselves are edible and will add spectacular color to your salads.
From the post-gazette.com
The color is very subtle and gives lips a sheer blush that looks really natural.
From the sacbee.com
For packaging, the founders chose brown, a color rarely used by consumer brands.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • Add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
  • 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"
  • Having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
  • Interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
  • Tinge: affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
  • The timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
  • Color or colour (see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. ...
  • Color is the third studio album by Japanese group NEWS, released on November 19, 2008. The album was released in a limited edition and regular edition. The regular edition comes with a bonus track. ...
  • In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of the price of derivatives such as options to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or portfolio of financial instruments is dependent. ...