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n. [the scale of distinctive tones or hues of light]

n. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

color, colour

n. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"

coloring material, colouring material, color, colour

n. any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"

color, colour, vividness

n. interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"

color, colour, coloring, colouring

n. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"

color, colour, people of color, people of colour

n. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

color, colour

v. modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"

color, colour, color in, colour in

v. add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

color, colour, emblazon

v. decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"

color, colour, distort

v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

color, colour, gloss

v. give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie"

discolor, discolour, colour, color

v. change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"

color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in

v. add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

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color, colour

adj. having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"

facade, window dressing

n. a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

mask

n. activity that tries to conceal something; "no mask could conceal his ignorance"; "they moved in under a mask of friendship"

pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling

n. pretending with intention to deceive

air, aura, atmosphere

n. a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance"

resemblance

n. similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

value

n. relative darkness or lightness of a color; "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light"-Joe Hing Lowe

dye, dyestuff

n. a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair

stain

n. (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible

coloring, colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour

n. a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"

hue, chromaticity

n. the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength

slant, angle, weight

v. present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"

bias

v. influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"

bias, predetermine

v. cause to be biased

affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch

v. have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"

dye

v. color with dye; "Please dye these shoes"

stain

v. produce or leave stains; "Red wine stains the table cloth"

lie

v. tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"

deform, distort, strain

v. alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"

loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around

v. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

relax, unbend

v. make less taut; "relax the tension on the rope"

loosen, relax, loose

v. become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

relax, unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed

v. cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"

exsert, stretch out, put out, extend, hold out, stretch forth

v. thrust or extend out; "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand"; "the bee exserted its sting"

stain

v. color for microscopic study; "The laboratory worker dyed the specimen"

tint, tinct, tinge, touch

v. color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"

blush

v. become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"

sunburn, burn

v. get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

burn

v. burn with heat, fire, or radiation; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"

combust

v. cause to become violent or angry; "Riots combusted Pakistan after the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan"

incinerate

v. become reduced to ashes; "The paper incinerated quickly"

flame

v. be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"

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Colorlessness

n. [the state of no having any color]

colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism, achromaticity

n. the visual property of being without chromatic color

discolor

v. lose color or turn colorless; "The painting discolored"

black-and-white

adj. of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories; "he rejected a black-and-white world"; "there are no black-and-white certainties"; "there were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white"

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