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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
fill
Verb
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If you fill something, you put something in it until there is no space left.
She added some games to fill the gap in the schedule.
His eyes filled with tears as he watched her walk away.
She filled the car up with gas.
He's so mean, he just fills me with anger every time I think of him.
Suddenly, the screen was filled with light.
I fill up the dog's new dish to the top and stick it on the floor.
Instead of eating a good dinner she just fills up on bread.
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If you fill in something, you give the missing information, especially personal information on a form.
She gave me another form to fill in for housing benefit.
When I got back, she filled me in on what had been happening.
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If you fill out, your body reaches its adult shape, especially women's breasts and men's shoulders.
fill
Noun
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The full amount of food or drink that a person can eat or drink.
Don't feed him any more, he's had his fill.
I've had my fill of alcohol for tonight.
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Fill is extra material, often of low quality, used to give something more volume.
They used the rocks as fill under the new house.