Red, black, lime green, hot pink these are all examples of colours, or the different kinds of hues that objects have (spelled the British way).
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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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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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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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the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
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interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
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(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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a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
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any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
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change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
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add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
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affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
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gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
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decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
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modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
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having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
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Usage Examples
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
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Other Usage ExamplesFashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.
This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
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