ALL meanings of colour
col·our
C c - noun colour Printing. the amount of ink used. 1
- noun colour Heraldry. a tincture other than a fur or metal, usually including gules, azure, vert, sable, and purpure. 1
- adjective colour involving, utilizing, yielding, or possessing color: a color TV. 1
- verb with object colour to give or apply color to; tinge; paint; dye: She colored her hair dark red. 1
- verb with object colour to cause to appear different from the reality: In order to influence the jury, he colored his account of what had happened. 1
- verb with object colour to give a special character or distinguishing quality to: His personal feelings color his writing. 1
- verb without object colour to take on or change color: The ocean colored at dawn. 1
- verb without object colour to flush; blush: He colored when confronted with the incriminating evidence. 1
- idioms colour call to the colors, to summon for service in the armed forces: Thousands are being called to the colors. 1
- idioms colour change color, to blush as from embarrassment. to turn pale, as from fear: When he saw the size of his opponent, he changed color. 1
- idioms colour with flying colors. flying colors. 1
- noun Definition of colour in Technology (graphics) (US "color") Colours are usually represented as RGB triples in a digital image because this corresponds most closely to the electronic signals needed to drive a CRT. Several equivalent systems ("colour models") exist, e.g. HSB. A colour image may be stored as three separate images, one for each of red, green, and blue, or each pixel may encode the colour using separate bit-fields for each colour component, or each pixel may store a logical colour number which is looked up in a hardware colour palette to find the colour to display. Printers may use the CMYK or Pantone representations of colours as well as RGB. 1
- noun colour (Countable Noun) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. 0
- noun colour (Uncountable Noun) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys). 0
- noun colour (Uncountable Noun) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. 0
- noun colour (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area. 0
- noun colour (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal. 0
- noun colour (in the plural) A standard or banner. 0
- noun colour The system of colour television. 0
- noun colour (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university. 0
- noun colour 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. 0
- noun colour (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons. 0
- noun colour (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. 0
- noun colour (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds. 0
- noun colour A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false. 0
- noun colour An appearance of right or authority. 0
- noun colour (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment. 0
- verb colour To give something colour. 0
- verb colour (Intransitive Verb) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons. 0
- verb colour (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow. 0
- verb colour To affect without completely changing. 0
- verb colour (Informal) To attribute a quality to. 0
- verb colour (mathematics) 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. 0
- adjective colour Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey. 0