Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a flag flown by a ship to show its nationality.
  • noun a distinguishing emblem.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The flag of a nation or team.
  • noun Gang insignia.
  • noun Plural form of color.
  • noun military The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of color.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a flag that shows its nationality
  • noun a distinguishing emblem

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  • ; Add Header for image file format: = "P3" comment: = "#File made in Autohotkey" hight: = scan_y_end - scan_y_start width: = scan_x_end - scan_x_start colors: = "255" file_data = % format% % comment% % width% % hight% % colors% % scan_current_line%

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • Since it is hard to tell about paint colors from a tiny little paint chip, get ideas for colors by looking around your house for towels, sheets, coats, or dresses that are in colors you might consider for your door.

    A Plain House (1) 2008

  • This explanation, although related to the use of painters materials on cloth, may be based on de la Follie's experience as the owner of a textile-print works and perhaps, even more directly, on his work to develop colors for indiennes. reference He explains that the solidity of the colors is the result of the coloring parts having combined with phlogiston; this combination renders them less attractive to extraneous and harmful salts.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • They would be fully cognizant of light, shadow, darkness; but the nicer sensations of the brain which we call colors would be utterly unknown to senses unable to feel their delicate touch.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

  • Remember, that what we call colors are only various numbers of vibrations of ether.

    Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871

  • When Sachi had asked, I’d put her off, saying, “I think we need to look at the title colors again.”

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • When Sachi had asked, I’d put her off, saying, “I think we need to look at the title colors again.”

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • When Sachi had asked, I’d put her off, saying, “I think we need to look at the title colors again.”

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • When Sachi had asked, I’d put her off, saying, “I think we need to look at the title colors again.”

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • If each woman would choose her own pattern and work out her own preferences in colors and trims, she could rise above the tacky clothing that the stores have in store for women today.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

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