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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly British Variant of color.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. etc. See color, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The spectral composition of visible light
  2. n. A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class
  3. n. Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
  4. n. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  5. n. Interest, especially in a selective area
  6. n. : Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
  7. n. A standard or banner.
  8. n. The system of colour television.
  9. n. An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  10. n. A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
  11. n. The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
  12. n. Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
  13. n. en; en.
  14. v. To give something colour.
  15. v. To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons.
  16. v. Of a face: To become red through increased blood flow, implying due to strong emotion.
  17. v. To affect without completely changing.
  18. v. To attribute a quality to.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See color.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
  2. v. affect as in thought or feeling
  3. v. modify or bias
  4. adj. having or capable of producing colors
  5. n. any material used for its color
  6. n. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
  7. n. the timbre of a musical sound
  8. n. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
  9. v. change color, often in an undesired manner
  10. n. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
  11. n. interest and variety and intensity
  12. v. give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
  13. n. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
  14. v. add color to
  15. v. decorate with colors

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