colour

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. uncountable The spectral composition of visible light
2. n. countable A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class; blee.
3. n. uncountable Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
4. n. uncountable Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
5. n. figuratively Interest, especially in a selective area.
6. n. heraldry Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
7. n. in the plural A standard or banner.
8. n. The system of colour television.
9. n. in the plural An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
10. n. 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.
11. n. physics A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
12. n. typography The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
13. n. snooker Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
14. n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
15. n. An appearance of right or authority.
16. n. medicine Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
17. adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
18. v. To give something colour.
19. v. intransitive To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons.
20. v. of a face To become red through increased blood flow.
21. v. To affect without completely changing.
22. v. informal To attribute a quality to.
23. v. mathematics To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Brit. 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