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colour English

Meaning colour meaning

What does colour mean?

colour

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

Synonyms colour synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as colour?

colour English » English

color paint dye hue tint tinge colouring coloring stain complexion blush coloration flush tincture shade pigmentation pigment colouration colorize tone gloss discolour colourize colourise coloured colour in colorise colored color in vividness people of colour people of color discolor colouring material coloring material chromaticity chromatic cast appearance undertone trace sort slant semblance redden pretext painting nuance guise embroider

Conjugation colour conjugation

How do you conjugate colour?

colour · verb

Examples colour examples

How do I use colour in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The colour fuchsia is called after a flower.
A rainbow is a seven-colour arch in the sky.
What colour is this fish?
In late summer and autumn one can see the leaves change colour.
The colour and make of the president's car are?
My favourite colour is red.
An artist must have an eye for colour.
What colour was Henri IV's white horse?
I prefer a lighter colour.
I'll take this: I like the colour.
These shirts are the same. They are the same colour.
If the Icelandic language was a colour, I think it would be white.
Her eyes were the colour of kohlrabi.
Many Chinese people consider red to be the best colour.
He thinks that blue is the most beautiful colour.
What colour do you associate with your childhood?
I like the green colour.
I don't like the colour of this house.
That's a horse of another colour.
That's a horse of a different colour.

Movie subtitles

The green colour is copper coming from the penny and a noxious fume is being emitted.
Or her favourite colour.
Doctor Waldman, I learnt a great deal from you at the university about the violet ray, the ultraviolet ray, which you said was the highest colour in the spectrum.
It draws colour from everything it touches.
No matter what his race, colour or creed.
You got a lot of colour in your left cheek this morning.
My auntie had a dress that colour, and she sent it to the cleaner's and it come back all spotty.
What colour?
I didn't see the colour of her eyes.
He is of the colour of nutmeg and of the heat of the ginger.
You eyes have a colour I find touching.
I always thought red was your colour.
Utamaro says that even his rough sketches are full of life. He says that other artists are using too much colour and that's why their women look like freaks.
Please, see how brocade colour prints are made.
I am a bit confused by the colour, because this white colour does not fit.
That resulted in this beautiful colour map.
And this map shows the combination of the Dutch results, that we saw in colour just before, and the Australian results.
I'm colour-blind.
I was just trying to decide the colour of Anne's eyes.
His eyes are like the blue sky. his hair the colour of ebony.
What colour is my gown?
He must be, from the colour in your cheeks.
If you's referring to me, Miss Cherry, this country lacks good, solid colour!
Mme Lepic gave me that name because of the colour of my hair.
He's of the colour of nutmeg, and of the heat of the ginger.
The paper'd like to know what colour I prefer for men's underwear?
Does the colour of the money matter if it's to be devoted to a beautiful, noble cause?
My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white.
It's as much a part of him as the colour of his eyes.
I don't think red is the right colour.
That's the colour it was before I started fooling around with it.
Oh, of the Academy of Painters in Water Colour.
Do you think the colour's too much?
Cos they've got a sort of beigey colour with stripes, and I.
You could use a patch of a different colour.

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For me, that shade of brown remains the colour of safety.

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