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color

— 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 — verb (= colorize, colour) add color to The child colored the drawings Fall colored the trees colorize black and white film — noun (= colour, vividness) interest and variety and intensity the Puritan Period was lacking in color the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness — adjective (= colour) having or capable of producing colors color film he rented a color television marvelous color illustrations — noun (= colour) the timbre of a musical sound the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music — noun a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) — verb (= tinge, colour) affect as in thought or feeling My personal feelings color my judgment in this case The sadness tinged his life — verb (= colour) modify or bias His political ideas color his lectures — 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 — 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 — noun (= colour) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction each flavor of quarks comes in three colors — verb (= colour) decorate with colors color the walls with paint in warm tones — verb (= colour) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for color a lie — noun (= colour) any material used for its color she used a different color for the trim — verb (= discolor, discolour, colour) change color, often in an undesired manner The shirts discolored

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look Verb

— Someone looks at something when they move their head or move their eyes so that they can see the thing. Look at this picture! Isn't it beautiful? — The way that something looks is the way that it appears. A new car looks very nice until it gets dirty. That doughnut looks delicious.

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up Preposition

— Toward the top or toward the sky. The balloon went up.

up Adjective

— In a high position. The flag is up. — . It was an up day. — optimistic. He is feeling up. — Put in trust, entrusted. It is up to you. — ing, occurring. What’s up? They act like something is up. — . Something is up with him. — Planning, plotting mischief. He is up to something. — ed. It is all up with them.

up Noun

— State of being up, often with down. Life has its ups and downs.

up Verb

— Increase, increment. We upped the dosage.

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table Noun

— A raised flat surface. He sat at the table to eat. — A list of information in rows and columns. He looked at the data table.

table Verb

— To propose in a meeting. We will table a new motion. — To end or postpone in a meeting. I vote to table discussion.

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