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Colour

noun
1.
Any material used for its color.  Synonyms: color, coloring material, colouring material.
2.
A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).  Synonyms: color, people of color, people of colour.
3.
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction.  Synonym: color.
4.
Interest and variety and intensity.  Synonyms: color, vividness.  "The characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
5.
The timbre of a musical sound.  Synonyms: color, coloration, colouration.
6.
A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.  Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring.
7.
An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading.  Synonyms: color, gloss, semblance.  "He tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction" , "The situation soon took on a different color"
8.
The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation.  Synonym: color.
verb
1.
Modify or bias.  Synonym: color.
2.
Decorate with colors.  Synonyms: color, emblazon.
3.
Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.  Synonyms: color, gloss.
4.
Affect as in thought or feeling.  Synonyms: color, distort, tinge.  "The sadness tinged his life"
5.
Add color to.  Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize.  "Fall colored the trees" , "Colorize black and white film"
6.
Change color, often in an undesired manner.  Synonyms: color, discolor, discolour.
adjective
1.
Having or capable of producing colors.  Synonym: color.  "He rented a color television" , "Marvelous color illustrations"



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"Colour" Quotes from Famous Books



... because it has its own sad, pathetic beauty, but because it has got itself involved in the common burden; lightening such a burden here, making it, perhaps, a little heavier there, but lending it a richer tone, a subtler colour, a more significant shape. It does not trouble the natural man that Religion should deal with "the Impossible." Where, in such a world as this, does that begin? He has no agitating desire to reconcile it ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys

... people say that the name is derived from a bloody Indian battle which once took place upon its banks, tinging the waters with crimson dye. It certainly cannot be called red from the hue of the water, which is of a dirty-white colour. Flowing towards the north with innumerable twists and sudden turnings, the Red River divides the State of Minnesota, which it has upon its right, from the great territory of Dakota, receiving from each side many tributary streams which take their source in the ...
— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler

... played with more skill, or with greater knowledge of his character whom he addressed. He said just enough to set him thinking, and to give a bias and a colour to his thoughts, without giving him reason to suspect that he had any interest in the matter; and he had withdrawn himself in that careless and half contemptuous manner, which naturally led the young man to wish for a ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) • Henry William Herbert

... influences of true art work upon man. If,—going beyond the outer form, colour and tone of a work of art,—he penetrates to its spiritual foundations with his imagination and feeling, then the impulses thus received by the ego actually reach the etheric body. When this thought is followed out to its logical conclusion, the immense ...
— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner

... at liberty, and can be thrown back at pleasure, is so convenient for riding, and so excellent a protection from wind and rain, that it is now commonly adopted by the Spanish inhabitants of Chili, Peru, and Paraguay. The shirt, vest, and breeches, are always of a greenish blue, or turquois colour, which is the uniform of the nation. Among persons of ordinary rank, the poncho, or native cloak, is also of the same national colour; but those of the higher classes have it of different colours, as white, red, or blue, with stripes a span broad, on which figures of flowers and animals are wrought ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr


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