Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of colour.
- n. The national flag flown by a ship at sea.
- n. The British military ceremony of raising the flag.
- n. The balls that score more than one point in snooker. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.
- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of colour.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. same as colors.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flag that shows its nationality
- n. a distinguishing emblem
Examples
“By mixing _colours with colours_, he produces compound colours, or _hues_.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“Certainly, Theotimus, beauty is without effect, unprofitable and dead, if light and splendour do not make it lively and effective, whence we term colours lively when they have light and lustre.”
“I bought two short sleeve summer shirts in colours that matched the socks.”
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“The natural elements enter the residence, changing gradually in colours and being filtered at the top of her volume.”
“The clothed altar with its beauty and changing colours is a symbol of the Mystical Body -- the whole Christ, Christ united with all his saints -- it translates this doctrine into the language of colour and form.”
“They invariably come in colours that look like somebody mopped up the floor of the dye room with them.”
“- Mixing colours is fun, but makes it hard to get the same colour everywhere.”
“As to red invading green, I grew up in Mayo, whose county flag looks like this, so the clash of these colours is too familiar to trouble me.”
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“These skills are too many to count, and they came about as humans migrated ‘left’ and ‘right’; as well, epithelial pigmentation (skin colours) changed and exposed human beings to new levels of the absorbsion of solar radiation, too!”
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