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foreground color

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