color

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：colourcoloringcolouring

  • interest and variety and intensity

    "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"

    同义词：colourvividness

  • the timbre of a musical sound

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

    同义词：colourcolorationcolouration

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

    同义词：colourpeople of colorpeople of colour

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

    "the situation soon took on a different color"

    同义词：semblanceglosscolour

  • any material used for its color

    "she used a different color for the trim"

    同义词：coloring materialcolouring materialcolour

  • (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：colorizecolorisecolourisecolourizecolourcolor incolour in

  • affect as in thought or feeling

    "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"

    同义词：tingecolourdistort

  • 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：colouremblazon

  • gloss or excuse

    "color a lie"

    同义词：colourgloss

  • change color, often in an undesired manner

    "The shirts discolored"

    同义词：discolordiscolourcolour

• adj.having or capable of producing colors

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

  同义词：colour