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colour
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adjective
(= color)
having or capable of producing colors
color film
he rented a color television
marvelous color illustrations
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verb
(= color)
give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
color a lie
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verb
(= color)
decorate with colors
color the walls with paint in warm tones
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verb
(= color)
modify or bias
His political ideas color his lectures
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noun
(= color)
(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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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
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noun
(= color)
the timbre of a musical sound
the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
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noun
(= color, vividness)
interest and variety and intensity
the Puritan Period was lacking in color
the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
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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
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noun
(= color)
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
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verb
(= discolor, discolour, color)
change color, often in an undesired manner
The shirts discolored
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verb
(= tinge, color)
affect as in thought or feeling
My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
The sadness tinged his life
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noun
(= color)
any material used for its color
she used a different color for the trim
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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
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verb
(= color, colorize)
add color to
The child colored the drawings
Fall colored the trees
colorize black and white film
screen
Noun
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A screen is a flat surface for showing pictures, text or video.
The information appears on the computer screen almost right away.
I couldn't see the movie because the person in front of me was blocking the screen.
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A screen is a flat surface between two areas, often letting something in but keeping something out.
The hole in the window screen let the bugs in.
There was a screen around my hospital bed.
screen
Verb
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If you screen blood, people, information, etc., you find or block unwanted things.
They carefully screen the blood for viruses before giving it to hospitals.
He put on a hat to screen his eyes from the sun.
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If you screen a movie, a TV show, etc., you put it on a screen.
They screened the new movie for the press last week.