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color
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noun
(= colour, coloring, colouring)
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
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verb
(= colorize, colour)
add color to
The child colored the drawings
Fall colored the trees
colorize black and white film
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noun
(= colour, vividness)
interest and variety and intensity
the Puritan Period was lacking in color
the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
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adjective
(= colour)
having or capable of producing colors
color film
he rented a color television
marvelous color illustrations
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noun
(= colour)
the timbre of a musical sound
the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
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noun
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
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verb
(= tinge, colour)
affect as in thought or feeling
My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
The sadness tinged his life
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verb
(= colour)
modify or bias
His political ideas color his lectures
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noun
(= semblance, gloss, colour)
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity
he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction
the situation soon took on a different color
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noun
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
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noun
(= colour)
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
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verb
(= colour)
decorate with colors
color the walls with paint in warm tones
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verb
(= colour)
give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
color a lie
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noun
(= colour)
any material used for its color
she used a different color for the trim
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verb
(= discolor, discolour, colour)
change color, often in an undesired manner
The shirts discolored
degree
Noun
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We measure an angle using degrees. All the way around a circle is 360 degrees. Often, ° is written instead of "degrees".
A right-angled triangle has an angle of 90 degrees.
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We measure how hot or how cold it is (temperature) using degrees on a scale, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
It's going to be 35 degrees Celsius today.
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The amount that an object has of a certain quality.
To what degree do the two accounts of the accident agree?
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Any units used to measure specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing commodities.
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An award (usually better than a diploma but not as good as a doctorate) given by a university or, in some countries, a college
After four years at university, she got her degree.
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The number of edges that a vertex is part of.
The corner of a cube is of degree 3, but the corners of an eight-sided solid have degree 4.