colour, n.
(colours)
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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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color colour
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an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
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color colour gloss semblance
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"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
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color coloring colour colouring
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"a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
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primary color, primary colour
heather mixture, heather
mottle
shade, tone, tint, tincture
chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
achromatic color, achromatic colour
coloration, colouration
complexion, skin color, skin colour
nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour
the timbre of a musical sound
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color coloration colour colouration
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"the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
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interest and variety and intensity
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color colour vividness
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"the Puritan Period was lacking in color""the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
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(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
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color colour
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"each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
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any material used for its color
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color coloring material colour colouring material
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"she used a different color for the trim"
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