Definition of "color"
- noun
The spectral composition of visible light.
A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class; blee.
Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
Interest, especially in a selective area.
Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
A standard or banner.
The system of color television.
An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.
A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
An appearance of right or authority.
Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- adjective
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
- verb
To give something color.
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 assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.
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