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effective
Adjective
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An effective strategy, treatment, method, etc is one that works well as planned.
Teachers are using instructional strategies that are most effective in helping students learn.
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If you have effective command, consent, control, etc., you have it in practice but not officially.
The students had effective control over what the teacher would include on the test.
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If a law, agreement, change, etc. becomes effective, it officially begins.
The new rules about ball size are effective next season.
effective
Preposition
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You use effective to say when something starts officially.
Effective next week, all employees will wear the new uniform.
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
charge
Verb
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When you charge someone money, you ask them to pay the money for something that you have done for them or sold to them.
We charge ten cents a page for copying.
The shop charged me $5 to deliver the pizza.
The law doesn't limit the size of fees banks can charge.
The price the hotel charges is just too expensive.
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When the police charge someone with a crime, they officially say that the person did something illegal.
A short time later, police arrested the man and charged him with murder.
Many of the people in jail have not been charged with crimes.
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If you charge that something is wrong, you say it is.
Many critics charge that our schools are not doing a good job.
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When you charge something at a store, you put it on credit.
The business man charged all of his meals to his company.
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When you charge at a thing, you run toward it.
The bull charged the man walking in the field.
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When you charge (up) a battery, or when you charge (up) something that has a battery, you put electrical energy into it to be stored.
Oh no! I forgot to charge up the camera and the batteries are dead.
I don't want to leave the house right now, because my cell phone is charging.
charge
Noun
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A charge is a claim the somebody has done something wrong or illegal, especially a claim by police.
He says charges against his son are false.
The police have filed criminal charges against the company.
They will ask the judge to drop the murder charge against Sutherland.
Jowdy denied the charges of lying.
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A charge for something is the price of the thing. It often it is for a service or fee for a period of time.
The charge each month for the phone service is fifty dollars.
The university agreed to let them use the space free of charge.
Credit card companies must list the fees and interest charges separately on your monthly bill.
Do you want to put that on your charge card?
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If someone is in charge of something, they are responsible for it.
Josh is in charge of buying drinks for the party.
He took good care of the children in his charge.
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If someone leads the charge, they are working hard to make some kind of change.
Amazon.com led the charge in making electronic books popular.
These are the workers who have led the charge for employer-paid health care.
Teachers have led the charge against the new tests.
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Your charge is the person that you are responsible for, often a child.
The teacher smiled at his young charges.
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A charge is a movement towards somebody to attack them.
Moriarity then led the charge that pushed Bishop out the door into a hallway.
The game ends with the Eagles fighting off a late charge by the Potomac Braves to win, 63-59.
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A charge is the amount of electrical energy that something holds.
And once you've used up the electric charge, your electric car stops working.
The batteries will slowly lose their charge.
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A charge is the explosive in a gun or a bomb.
When the charge exploded, there was a large hole in the wall.