What does colouring mean?

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colour·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. coloring, colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colournoun

    a digestible substance used to give color to food

    "food color made from vegetable dyes"

  2. color, colour, coloring, colouringnoun

    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"

  3. coloring, colouringnoun

    the act or process of changing the color of something

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Colouringnoun

    The part of the painter’s art that teaches to lay on his colours with propriety and beauty.

    Etymology: from colour.

    From lines drawn true, our eye may trace
    A foot, a knee, a hand, a face;
    Yet if the colouring be not there,
    At best ’twill only not displease. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPT

  1. colouring

    Colouring refers to the process or action of changing or applying color to an object, surface, or area. This could be achieved through the use of dyes, paints, coloured pencils, crayons or other materials. Additionally, in a broader sense, colouring can also refer to the characteristic of objects described by the distinct colors or hues they possess. In digital media, colouring refers to adding or altering colors on a digital image. In graph theory or mathematics, colouring refers to the assignment of labels or colors to vertices, edges, or faces of a graph or a planar diagram.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of colouring in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of colouring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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