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Common
US spelling
noun
•
The
spectral
composition
of
visible light
.
•
A
subset
thereof:
A
particular
set of
visible
spectral
compositions
,
perceived
or
named
as a
class
.
Hue
as opposed to
achromatic
colors
(black,
white
and
grays
).
These
hues
as used in
color television
or
films
,
color
photographs
, etc (
as opposed to
the
shades
of
grey
used in
black-and-white television
).
•
In Heraldry:
A
subset
thereof:
Any of the
standard
dark
tinctures
used in a
coat of arms
, including
azure
,
gules
,
sable
, and
vert
.
•
A
paint
.
•
Human
skin
tone
,
especially
as an
indicator
of
race
or
ethnicity
.
•
In Medicine:
Skin color
,
noted
as
normal
,
jaundiced
,
cyanotic
,
flush
,
mottled
,
pale
, or
ashen
as part of the
skin signs
assessment
.
•
A
flushed
appearance
of
blood
in the
face
;
redness
of
complexion
.
•
Richness
of
expression
;
detail
or
flavour
that is
likely
to
generate
interest
or
enjoyment
.
•
A
standard
,
flag
, or
insignia
:
A
standard
or
banner
.
The
flag
of a
nation
or
team
.
Gang
insignia
.
•
An
award
for
sporting
achievement
,
particularly
within a
school
or
university
.
•
In Military:
The
morning
ceremony
of
raising
the
flag
.
•
In Physics:
A
property
of
quarks
, with three
values
called
red
,
green
, and
blue
, which they can
exchange
by
passing
gluons
.
•
In Finance:
A third-order
measure
of
derivative
price
sensitivity
,
expressed
as the
rate
of change of
gamma
with respect to
time, or
equivalently
the
rate
of change of
charm
with respect to
changes
in the
underlying
asset
price
.
•
In Typography:
The
relative
lightness
or
darkness
of a
mass
of
written
or
printed
text
on a
page
. (See
type color
on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
•
In Snooker:
Any of the
colored
balls
excluding the
reds
.
•
A front or
facade
; an
ostensible
truth
actually
false
;
pretext
.
•
An
appearance
of right or
authority
;
color of law
.
verb
•
To
give
something
color
.
•
To
cause
(a
pipe
,
especially
a
meerschaum
) to
take on
a
brown
or
black color
, by
smoking
.
•
To
apply
colors
to the
areas
within the
boundaries
of a
line
drawing
using
colored
markers
or
crayons
.
•
To become
red
through
increased
blood flow
.
•
To
affect
without
completely
changing
.
•
To
attribute
a quality to; to
portray
(as).
•
In Graph theory & Mathematics:
To
assign
colors
to the
vertices
of a
graph
(or the
regions
of a
map
)
so that
no two
vertices
connected
by an
edge
(regions
sharing
a
border
) have the same
color
.
adj
•
Conveying
color
,
as opposed to
shades
of
gray
.
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shade
pigment
dye
tint
texture
paint
colouring
image
light
brightness
shape
tone
red
yellow
skin
coloured
pigmentation
magenta
palette
pink
style
purple
shading
appearance
flavor
blue
black
stripe
orange
picture
hues
flavour
glow
shades
grey
stain
coat
touch
pixel
brighten
decorate
contour
pattern
surface
chromatic
rgb
polish
brown
display
colour scheme
light up
eye colour
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Opposite
decolor
Rhymes
color
muller
coloring
Lineage
color
English
color
Middle English (1100-1500)
colur
Anglo-Norman
colour
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
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