Word Finder - color

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The spectral composition of visible light

example

Humans and birds can perceive color.

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• blee

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A subset thereof:

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A paint.

example

The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.

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Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.

example

Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.

synonyms

• complexion
• ethnicity
• race

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Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.

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A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.

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Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.

example

Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?

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A standard, flag, or insignia:

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(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.

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He was awarded colors for his football.

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(in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.

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A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.

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A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.

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The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color.)

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Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.

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A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.

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An appearance of right or authority; color of law.

example

Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.

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To give something color.

example

We could color the walls red.

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• dye
• paint
• shade
• stain
• tinge
• tint

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To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

example

My kindergartener loves to color.

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• color in

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(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.

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Her face colored as she realized her mistake.

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• blush

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To affect without completely changing.

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That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.

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• affect
• influence

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To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).

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Color me confused.

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• call

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To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.

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Can this graph be 2-colored?

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Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

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Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.

The color is amazing.

Cassie could feel the color draining from her face.

It was hard to look at his face without being fascinated by the color of his eyes.

It was his turn to color up.

A rush of excitement sent color to her cheeks, and she tore her gaze from his, focusing her attention on the dishes.

Rachel noted her rising color and grinned.

I can tell by the color in your cheeks.

It's the same color!

She knew the color was deepening in her cheeks.

Color stained his neck and spewed up into his face.

Is it your natural color?

It was true, and it brought color to his neck, but he didn't comment.

Color returned to his cheeks.

He was dressed again all in black, a color that should have minimized his size but just amplified how ripped he was beneath the clothing.

The color returned with a vengeance.

Color flooded her cheeks.

Not long since I read his epitaph in the old Lincoln burying-ground, a little on one side, near the unmarked graves of some British grenadiers who fell in the retreat from Concord--where he is styled "Sippio Brister"--Scipio Africanus he had some title to be called--"a man of color," as if he were discolored.

Southern customers objected to its blue color, which is the evidence of its purity, as if it were muddy, and preferred the Cambridge ice, which is white, but tastes of weeds.

She felt vindicated by the color that stained his dark cheeks.

It was blood red, casting a shadow the color of blood over the immortal world.

At least he would like the color of her dress.

The sky and the horizon were both the color of muddy water.

There were scores of dots of color but Dean had little trouble catching sight of a yellow blur rounding a corner, further below than he would have guessed.

Both Ed and Princess were a red-brown color with white speckles on their haunches – typical Appaloosas.

The liquid was a light amber color and had bubbles in it.

Alex smiled, his eyes going that soft milk chocolate color.

Noting her rising color, he chuckled.

You wore that dress the same color as the blooming apple trees.

After a long moment, the color returned to the assassin's face.

He hesitated before vaulting to the ground, unable to explain the quickening of his heart or the sense that the woman's teal gaze - the color of the eyes of Karyan nobility - reminded him of the home he hadn't thought of in years.

Black pupils swallowed the color of her eyes.

His eyes, so light in color they were more golden than brown, penetrated her thoughts with every look.

Alarmed, Taran turned in time to see the man with eyes the color of Vara's strike his father down.

His gaze drifted over her face and then color started up his neck.

They were warm eyes - eyes that held her attention long enough to bring color to her cheeks.

He smiled warmly when he met her gaze, a twinkle of amusement deepening the amber color to brown.

Megan wished she could stop the flood of color that burned her cheeks.

Too bad the darkness didn't hide the anxiety in her voice as well as it hid the color in her cheeks.

He glanced up sharply and noted the color in her cheeks.

Color touched his cheeks and his brows arched.

Color rushed to her cheeks when his eyes sparkled with amusement.

The scowl made the color of his eyes look almost brown.

Jessi crossed to the wardrobe the same color white as the walls and opened it.

Her aristocratic features were strong and firm, her eyes the color of spring, circled by silver.

The color fled from her cheeks as he spoke.

Its eyes were the same color red as Xander's.

The color drained from her face a moment before she panicked.

Ashley's bead was lighter red in color, its surface glazed to give it a subtle reflecting quality.

Her gray eyes were almost the color of the moon overhead, her pale features obscured by curls that danced in an ocean breeze.

This law naturally made a deep impression on military Europe, not merely because the period of color service was reducedGermany had taken this step years beforebut because of the almost entire absence of the usual exemptions.