1. (noun)coloring material, colouring material, color, colour any material used for its color "she used a different color for the trim"
2. (noun)color, colour, people of color, people of colour a race with skinpigmentation different from the whiterace (especially Blacks)
3. (noun)color, colour (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
4. (noun)color, colour, vividness interest and variety and intensity "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
5. (noun)color, colour, coloration, colouration the timbre of a musicalsound "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
6. (noun)color, colour, coloring, colouring 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"
7. (noun)semblance, gloss, color, colour an outward or tokenappearance 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"
9. (adj)color, colour having or capable of producing colors "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
10. (verb)color, colour modify or bias "His political ideas color his lectures"
11. (verb)color, colour, emblazon decorate with colors "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
12. (verb)color, colour, gloss give a deceptive explanation or excuse for "color a lie"
13. (verb)tinge, color, colour, distort affect as in thought or feeling "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
14. (verb)color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in add color to "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
15. (verb)discolor, discolour, colour, color change color, often in an undesired manner "The shirts discolored"
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