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Type Words
Synonyms color, coloring material, colouring material
Type of material, stuff
Has types stain, pigment, dye, dyestuff, tincture, indicator, hematochrome, mordant, paint
Type Words
Synonyms color
Type of variety, kind, sort, form
Type Words
Synonyms color
Type Words
Synonyms color, emblazon
Type of decorate, grace, embellish, ornament, beautify, adorn
Has types miniate
Type Words
Synonyms color, gloss
Type of apologise, rationalize, excuse, rationalise, apologize
Type Words
Synonyms color, 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 colouring
Type Words
Synonyms color
Type of appearance, visual aspect
Type Words
Synonyms color, vividness
Type of interest, interestingness
Type Words
Synonyms color
Type of work, influence, act upon
Type Words
Synonyms color, 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
Type Words
Synonyms color, coloration, colouration
Type of timber, timbre, tone, quality
Type Words
Synonyms color, coloring, 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
Type Words
Synonyms color, distort, tinge
Type of impact, affect, bear on, touch on, bear upon, touch
Type Words
Synonyms color, color in, colorise, colorize, 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 colouring

Examples of colour

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It may not sound like a good colour combination, but I thought it was a cracker.
From the telegraph.co.uk
After an hour Victoria finished the first stage and we had a look at the colour.
From the express.co.uk
I use colour and form to guide the eye of the viewer through non-realist spaces.
From the independent.co.uk
Sports markings and colour would be applied before a matte multiple-coat finish.
From the odt.co.nz
Combat units seek to identify themselves by wearing T-shirts of the same colour.
From the economist.com
Visually it plugged a gap between summer flowers and conventional autumn colour.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Colour Doppler imaging has been the standard in ultrasound since the late 1980s.
From the sciencedaily.com
With 80 per cent of the state covered by trees, there is fall colour everywhere.
From the telegraph.co.uk
When the ancestors of geckos became nocturnal, they evolved colour night vision.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Color: having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
  • Color: modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
  • Coloring material: any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
  • Color: a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
  • Color: decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
  • Color: (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
  • 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 visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue, etc.
  • A colour is a name for certain kinds of flags.