color [ 'kʌlə ]

• n.
  • 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"

    同义词： colour coloring colouring

  • interest and variety and intensity

    "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"

    同义词： colour vividness

  • the timbre of a musical sound

    "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

    同义词： colour coloration colouration

  • a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

    同义词： colour people of color people of colour

  • an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

    "the situation soon took on a different color"

    同义词： semblance gloss colour

  • any material used for its color

    "she used a different color for the trim"

    同义词： coloring material colouring material colour

  • (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors

    同义词： colour

  • the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

    同义词： colour

• v.
  • add color to

    "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

    同义词： colorize colorise colourise colourize colour color in colour in

  • affect as in thought or feeling

    "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"

    同义词： tinge colour distort

  • modify or bias

    "His political ideas color his lectures"

    同义词： colour

  • decorate with colors

    "color the walls with paint in warm tones"

    同义词： colour emblazon

  • gloss or excuse

    "color a lie"

    同义词： colour gloss

  • change color, often in an undesired manner

    "The shirts discolored"

    同义词： discolor discolour colour

• adj. having or capable of producing colors

  "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"

  同义词： colour

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