colour
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(adjective) (photography) "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "in glorious color"; "marvelous color illustrations" |
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Synonyms: color |
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(verb) add color to |
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Synonyms: color, color in, colour in |
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Related Words: blotch, draw, mottle, paint, streak |
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(verb) decorate with colors |
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Synonyms: color, emblazon |
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Related Words: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, miniate, ornament |
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(noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "white is the coolest summer color" |
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Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring |
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Related Words: achromatic color, achromatic colour, chromatic color, chromatic colour, coloration, complection, complexion, dithered color, dithered colour, heather, heather mixture, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, shade, skin color, skin colour, spectral color, spectral colour, tincture, tint, tone, visual property |
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(noun) the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" |
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Synonyms: color |
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Related Words: quality, timber, timbre, tone |
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(noun) interest and variety and intensity: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color" |
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Synonyms: color, vividness |
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Related Words: interest, interestingness |
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(noun) a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
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Synonyms: color, people of color, people of colour |
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Related Words: race |
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(verb) change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored" |
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Synonyms: discolor, discolour |
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Related Words: black, blacken, blanch, blench, blue, blush, bronze, burn, change, crimson, dye, flush, gray, green, grey, melanize, nigrify, pale, purple, redden, silver, sunburn, tan, tone, turn, white, whiten, yellow |
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(noun) outward or token appearance or form; "he tried to give his actions a semblance of authenticity"; "the situation soon took on a different color" |
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Synonyms: color, semblance |
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Related Words: appearance, camouflage, disguise, face value, guise, pretence, pretext, simulacrum, verisimilitude, visual aspect |
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