User:Wikitiki89/colour

Alternative forms

 * color

Etymology
, from, from , , from , from colos "covering", from. Akin to Latin. Displaced Middle English, from Old English. More at blee.

In the US, the spelling color is used to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and to make all derivatives consistent (colorimeter, colorize, colorless, etc). Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, the spelling colour has been retained.

Noun

 * 1) The spectral composition of visible light.
 * 2) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
 * 3) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
 * 4) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
 * 5) Interest, especially in a selective area.
 * Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
 * 1) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
 * 2) A standard or banner.
 * 3) The system of colour television.
 * 4) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
 * 5) 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.
 * 6) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
 * 7) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
 * 8) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
 * 9) A front or fa&ccedil;ade: an ostensible truth actually false.
 * 10) An appearance of right or authority.
 * 11) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
 * 1) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
 * 4) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
 * 5) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
 * 6) A front or fa&ccedil;ade: an ostensible truth actually false.
 * 7) An appearance of right or authority.
 * 8) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
 * 1) A front or fa&ccedil;ade: an ostensible truth actually false.
 * 2) An appearance of right or authority.
 * 3) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
 * 1) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.

Usage notes
The late colour, which is the standard UK spelling, has been the usual spelling in Britain since the 14th century and was chosen by 's ' (1755) along with other  spellings such as favour, honour, etc. The Latin spelling color was occasionally used from the 15th century onward, mainly due to Latin influence; it was lemmatized by 's ' (1828), along with favor, honor, etc., and is currently the standard US spelling.

In Canada, colour is preferred, but color is not unknown; in Australia, -our endings are the standard, although -or endings had some currency in the past and are still sporadically found in some regions. In New Zealand, -our endings are the standard.

Synonyms

 * blee
 * blee, hue
 * hue, shade, blee
 * colour of one’s skin, complexion, blee, ethnicity, race
 * interest
 * stain
 * banner, standard
 * colour television

Derived terms

 * colour-blind
 * colour charge
 * colour code
 * colour commentator
 * coloured
 * colourful
 * colour of fire
 * flame-colour
 * colourimeter
 * colourise
 * colourism
 * colourless
 * colours
 * discoloration
 * in colour
 * off-colour
 * prismatic colours
 * true colours

Adjective

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

Verb

 * 1) To give something colour.
 * We could colour the walls red.
 * 1)  To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons.
 * My kindergartener loves to colour.
 * 1)  To become red through increased blood flow.
 * ''Her face coloured as she realised her mistake.
 * 1) To affect without completely changing.
 * That interpretation certainly colours my perception of the book.
 * 1)  To attribute a quality to.
 * Colour me confused.
 * 1)  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.
 * Can this graph be two-coloured?
 * You can colour any map with four colours.

Synonyms

 * dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tint
 * blush
 * affect, influence
 * call
 * call

Derived terms

 * colour by numbers

Anagrams

 * courol