color meaning
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[ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ)] [ˈkʌl.ɚ] [-ʌlə(ɹ)] 
US WColor
- Color (American English) or colour (British English; see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, etc.
- Because perception of color stems from the varying spectral sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells.
- The science of color is sometimes called chromatics, colorimetry, or simply color science.
- NounPLcolorsPREcolo-
- NU The spectral composition of visible light.
- Humans and birds can perceive color.
- NC A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- NU Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color".
- NU Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
- a bit of local color
- (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
- (in the plural) A standard or banner.
- The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
- (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
- The colors were raised over the new territory.
- (in the plural) Gang insignia.
- Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
- The system of color television.
- This film is broadcast in color.
- (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- He was awarded colors for his football.
- (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.
- Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
- (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
- (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
- An appearance of right or authority.
- Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
- (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- NU The spectral composition of visible light.
- VerbSGcolorsPRcoloringPT, PPcolored
- To give something color.
- We could color the walls red.
- VI To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- My kindergartener loves to color.
- (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
- To affect without completely changing.
- That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
- INF To attribute a quality to.
- Color me confused.
- (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.
- Can this graph be two-colored?
- You can color any map with four colors.
- To give something color.
- Adjective
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
- Purple and blue are two colors that go together well.
- We study the price of anarchy in a class of graph coloring games (a subclass of polymatrix common-payoff games).
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Color code: green (plant), red (metazoans), black (bacteria and archeae), cyan (protists) and brown (fungi).
- Color of hypothecium: 0 = colorless; 1 = yellow-brown to red-brown. 4.
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Not far away is the Hood River Valley, with its myriad fruit growers who supply glistening, fragile berries and stonefruits of every stripe and color.
- This lovely teakettle comes in three designer colors.
- Slowly cooking the onions will caramelize them, which brings out the sweetness and gives them a brown color.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of color in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "color" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb.