User:Dmh/color colour

Etymology
From Latin "color" via Old French "coulour"; in American spelling the 'u' was dropped from colour to aid in spelling. In British spelling the 'u' remains.

Noun
color (US) colour (outside US) (uncountable and countable; plural: colors/colours)


 * 1) The spectral composition of visible light
 * Humans and birds can perceive colour
 * 1) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class
 * Most languages have names for the colours black, white, red and green.
 * 1) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
 * He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all colour".
 * 1) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
 * Colour has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
 * 1) (figuratively) interest, especially in a selective area.
 * a bit of local colour.


 * See also Wikipedia: color

Adjective
color (US) colour (outside US) (absolute so no comparative or superlative forms)


 * 1) Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey
 * Colour television and films were considered a great improvement over black and white

Related terms

 * colorise
 * colorize
 * colored coloured
 * colorful colourful
 * colorless colourless
 * colors colours
 * true colors true colours
 * See Appendix:Colours

Translations

 * Breton: liv m livioù pl
 * Chinese: 颜色
 * Danish: farve
 * Dutch: kleur
 * Esperanto: koloro
 * Finnish: väri
 * French: couleur f
 * Galician: color
 * German: Farbe f
 * Greek: χρώμα n (chroma)
 * Guaraní: sa'y
 * Hebrew: צבע
 * Indonesian: warna, rona
 * Interlingua: color
 * Italian: colore m
 * Japanese: 色 (いろ, iro)
 * Latin: color, -oris, m
 * Norwegian: farge
 * Persian: رنگ (rang)
 * Polish: kolor m, barwa f
 * Portuguese: cor f
 * Romanian: culoare f
 * Russian: цвет m
 * Spanish: color m
 * Swedish: färg
 * Volapük: köl
 * Yiddish: פאַרבּ

Verb
to color (US) to colour (outside US)


 * 1) To give something colour
 * We could colour the walls red
 * 1) To draw within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons
 * My son loves to colour
 * 1) (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow
 * 2) To affect without completely changing
 * That interpretation certainly colours my perception of the book
 * 1) (colloquial) To attribute a quality to
 * Colour me confused

Synonyms

 * colour in

Related terms

 * color by numbers colour by numbers

Translations

 * Breton: livañ (1)
 * Chinese: 填色, 上色, 著色 (1)
 * Danish: farve (1)
 * Dutch: kleuren (1)
 * Esperanto: kolorigi (1)
 * Finnish: värjätä (1), värittää (2)
 * French: colorer, colorier, teinter (1)
 * Galician: colorar (1)
 * German: färben (1)
 * Greek: χρωματίζω
 * Interlingua: colorar (1)
 * Persian: رنگ كردن (rang kardan), رزیدن (razidan)
 * Polish: kolorować, barwić, zabarwiać (1)
 * Portuguese: colorir (1)
 * Romanian: a colora (1)
 * Russian: красить
 * Spanish: colorar, colorear (1)
 * Swedish: färgsätta (1), måla (2), färglägga (2), rodna (3)

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