6 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: color adjective: having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations" [syn: {colour}] [ant: {black-and-white}] noun 1: 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" [syn: {colour}, {coloring}, {colouring}] [ant: {colorlessness}] 2: interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color" [syn: {colour}, {vividness}] 3: the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" [syn: {colour}, {coloration}, {colouration}] 4: a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) [syn: {colour}, {people of color}, {people of colour}] 5: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "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" [syn: {semblance}, {gloss}, {colour}] 6: any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim" [syn: {coloring material}, {colouring material}, {colour}] 7: (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors [syn: {colour}] 8: the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation [syn: {colour}] verb 1: add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" [syn: {colorize}, {colorise}, {colourise}, {colourize}, {colour}, {color in}, {colour in}] [ant: {discolor}] 2: affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life" [syn: {tinge}, {colour}, {distort}] 3: modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures" [syn: {colour}] 4: decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones" [syn: {colour}, {emblazon}] 5: gloss or excuse; "color a lie" [syn: {colour}, {gloss}] 6: change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored" [syn: {discolor}, {discolour}, {colour}] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Color \Col"or\, verb (used without an object) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Color \Col"or\ (k[u^]l"[~e]r), noun [Written also {colour}.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See {Helmet}.] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc. Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them. 2. Any hue distinguished from white or black. 3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak. 4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. 5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak. 6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak. 7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. --Farrow. 8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. {Body color}. See under {Body}. {Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}. {Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. {Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. {Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called {fundamental colors}. {Subjective color} or {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors}, under {Accidental}. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Color \Col"or\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Colored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coloring}.] [F. colorer.] 1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. --Sir I. Newton. 2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden. 3. To hide. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser. From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 1006 Moby Thesaurus words for "color": Adrianople red, Alice blue, Arabian red, Argos brown, Bordeaux, Brunswick black, Brunswick blue, Burgundy, Capri blue, Cassel yellow, Chinese blue, Chinese white, Claude tint, Cologne brown, Columbian red, Congo rubine, Copenhagen blue, Dresden blue, Dutch orange, Egyptian green, English red, French blue, French gray, Gobelin blue, Goya, Guinea green, India pink, Indian red, Irish green, Janus green, Kelly green, Kendal green, Kildare green, Klangfarbe, Lincoln green, Majolica earth, Mars orange, Mars violet, Mexican red, Mitis green, Montpellier green, Nile green, Paris green, Paris yellow, Persian blue, Persian red, Pompeian blue, Prussian blue, Prussian red, Quaker green, Roman umber, Saint Benoit, Saxe blue, Saxony green, Schweinfurt green, Spanish green, Spanish ocher, Tanagra, Tangier ocher, Technicolor, Titian, Turkey red, Turkey umber, Tyrian purple, Vandyke red, Vienna green, Wedgwood blue, Wedgwood green, absinthe, acid yellow, acier, acorn, acting, action, adjunct, adorn, adornment, affect, affectation, air, alabaster, alesan, alibi, alizarin brown, allow for, allowance, amber, amethyst, amidonaphthol red, anagnorisis, aniline black, aniline blue, annatto, anthracene brown, anthragallol, antique brown, antique gold, any color, apology, appearance, apple green, apply paint, apricot, aqua green, aquamarine, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrangement, array, arsenic yellow, ash, ash gray, atmosphere, attitude, attitudinizing, aureolin, autumn leaf, avocado green, azo blue, azo-orange, azulene, azure, azurite blue, baby blue, background, badge, balance, banner, barium sulfate, bat, bearing, beautify, bedaub, bedeck, bedizen, begild, belie, bend, benzoazurine, beryl, beryl green, besmear, besprinkle, bias, bice, biscuit, bister, blanc fixe, blanch, blazon, bleu celeste, blind, blond, blood, blue black, blue turquoise, bluff, bluffing, blush, bone black, bone brown, bottle green, bracken, brand, breathe, breed, brew, bright color, bright rose, brightness, brilliance, brow, brush on paint, brushwork, buff, bunny brown, burgee, burgundy, burlesque, burnt Roman ocher, burnt almond, burnt carmine, burnt ocher, burnt rose, burnt sienna, butter, cadet blue, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow, cafe noir, calamine blue, calcimine, camouflage, canary, carbon black, cardinal, caricature, carmine, carnation, carnelian, carotene, carriage, cartoon, cast, cast of countenance, catastrophe, celadon, censor, cerulean, chalk, chamois, champagne, change color, character, characterization, charcoal, chartreuse, chartreuse green, chartreuse tint, chartreuse yellow, cheating, chestnut, chrome, chrome black, chrome lemon, chrome orange, chrome oxide green, chrome red, chrome yellow, chromogen, chrysophenin, chrysoprase green, ciba blue, cinder gray, cinnabar, citron green, civette green, clan, clang color, claret, clematis, cloak, cloud gray, coat, coat of paint, coating, cobalt, cobalt green, cochineal, coconut, color filter, color gelatin, color patterns, color up, colorant, colorfulness, coloring, colors, complexion, complication, composition, conceal, continuity, contrivance, copper, copper red, coptic, copy, corbeau, cordovan, cornflower, countenance, cover, cover story, cover-up, cramoisie, crash, crayon, cream, cresol red, crimson, crocus, crosshatch, crystal gray, cucumber green, cyan, cyanine blue, cypress green, dab, dahlia, damask, damson, dandelion, dandify, darken, dash off, daub, dead leaf, dead-color, deception, deck, deck out, decoct, decontamination, decor, decorate, decoration, deep-dye, delft blue, delineate, delusion, demeanor, denomination, denouement, depict, description, design, designation, development, device, diagram, diminish, dip, disguise, dispose, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, distemper, distort, dizen, doeskin, doll up, doodle, double-dye, dove gray, drab, draft, draftsmanship, draw, dredge, dress, dress up, drier, drop black, duck green, dun, dye, dyestuff, ease, edit, eggshell, elaboration, embellish, embellishment, emblazon, emblazonment, emblazonry, emblem, embroider, embroidery, emerald, emeraude, enamel, engild, enrich, ensign, entincture, episode, erythema, exaggerate, excuse, extenuate, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, exterior paint, fable, facade, face, facial appearance, faded rose, fake, fakery, faking, falling action, false air, false front, false show, falsify, falsity, fast-dye, favor, feather, feature, features, feigning, feint, fiesta, fig out, fir, fire red, fix up, flag, flame, flat coat, flat wash, flavor, flax, flesh, flesh color, flesh red, floor enamel, floridity, floridness, flourish, flower arrangement, flush, foliage brown, form, four-flushing, fox, fraud, fresco, front, frown, fuchsia, fuchsine, fudge, furbish, furniture arrangement, gaiety, gamboge, garb, garble, garnish, garnishment, garniture, garter blue, genre, genus, gild, gilding, gilt, gimmick, glare, glauconite, glaucous, glaucous blue, glaucous gray, glaucous green, glaze, gloss, gloss over, glow, glower, gnarl, golden pheasant, gonfalon, gorgeousness, grace, grain, grape, grass green, green ocher, grege, ground, grouping, grow red, growl, guise, gules, gun metal, gussy up, handle, hatch, hazel, helianthin, heliotrope, henna, high color, holly green, honey, honey yellow, hue, humbug, humbuggery, hyacinth, hyacinth red, identification, identity, ignore, ilk, illuminate, illumination, imbrue, imbue, imperial purple, imposture, impregnate, incarnadine, incident, incline, indigo, indigo white, induce, infiltrate, influence, infrared, infuse, ingrain, instill, intensity, interior paint, iron gray, iron red, isamine blue, ivory, ivory black, jack, jade, japan, jockey, jonquil, jouvence blue, kidney, kin, kind, label, lacquer, lake, lame excuse, lampblack, lapis lazuli blue, lavender, lavender blue, lay on color, lead, lead gray, leaf green, leather, leaven, lemon chrome, lessen, light red, lilac, limn, line, lineaments, lines, liver brown, livid pink, lobster, local color, locus standi, look black, look daggers, looks, lot, lower, loyalties, madder, madder blue, madder crimson, madder lake, madder orange, madder pink, madder rose, madder yellow, magenta, magnify, maize, make, make allowance for, malachite green, mallow, mallow pink, mandarin, manner, mantle, maple sugar, marigold, marine blue, mark, maroon, mask, masquerade, massicot, mauve, meadow brook, medium, melon, meretriciousness, metanil yellow, methyl green, methyl orange, methyl yellow, methylene azure, methylene blue, mien, mignonette, milori green, mince, miscite, miscolor, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misquote, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, misuse, mitigate, mitigation, mold, moleskin, monsignor, mood, moonlight, moss green, motif, mouse gray, move, movement, mulberry, mummy, murrey, myrtle, mythos, naphthol yellow, nature, navy, 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playacting, plot, plum, plumbago gray, pompadour green, ponceau, pontiff purple, poor excuse, poppy, port, portray, pose, posing, position, posture, powder blue, powder