adj
Meaning 1
That colors something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
coloring
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adj
Meaning 2
That conveys or imparts color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively
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noun
Meaning 3
An act or process which applies color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Any substance used to give color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pigment
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The appearance as to color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: coloration
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A disguise or discoloration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
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verb
Meaning 8
present participle and gerund of color
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 9
the act or process of changing the color of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colouring
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of color
Narrower terms: tinting, hair coloring, dyeing
noun
Meaning 10
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: color, colour, colouring
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: visual property
Narrower terms: primary color, primary colour, heather mixture, heather, mottle, shade, tint, tincture, tone, chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour, achromatic color, achromatic colour, coloration, colouration, complexion, skin color, skin colour, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour
noun
Meaning 11
a digestible substance used to give color to food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- food color made from vegetable dyes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: foodstuff, food product
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: coloramiento — act
- Bulgarian: оцветяване (ocvetjavane) — act or process
- Finnish: väritys — act or process
- Finnish: värittäminen — act or process
- Irish: clódóireacht — act or process
- Polish: kolorowanie — act or process
- Polish: barwienie — act or process
- Polish: farbowanie — act or process
- Portuguese: colorir — act or process
- Russian: окра́ска (okráska) — act or process
- Russian: окра́шивание (okrášivanije) — act or process
- Russian: раскра́шивание (raskrášivanije) — act or process
- Russian: раскра́ска (raskráska) — act or process
- Spanish: coloración — act or process
- Spanish: coloramiento (disused) — act or process
- Esperanto: kolorigo — substance used to give color
- Bulgarian: окраска (okraska) — appearance
- Esperanto: koloriĝo — appearance
- Finnish: väritys — appearance
- Russian: раскра́ска (raskráska) — appearance
- Spanish: tez — appearance
- Finnish: suojaväritys — disguise or discoloration
- Finnish: värin muuttuminen (discoloration) — disguise or discoloration
- Russian: раскра́ска (raskráska) — disguise or discoloration
- Russian: обесцве́чивание (obescvéčivanije) — disguise or discoloration
- Spanish: decoloración — disguise or discoloration
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