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n. the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

n. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"

coloring, colouring, color

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, vividness

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

color, people of color, people of colour

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

color

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

color, give color to

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

color, distort

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

color, gloss

v. gloss or excuse; "color a lie"

color, color in, colour in

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

color, emblazon

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

color, discolor, discolour, change color, change colour

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

color

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

window dressing, facade

n. a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

mask

n. a covering to disguise or conceal the face

dissembling, pretense, feigning

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 color, food coloring

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

weight, slant, angle

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

bias, give a bias to

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

bias, predetermine

v. cause to be biased

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

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

crimson, flush, blush, redden, become red, turn red, grow red

v. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

burn, sunburn, get a sunburn

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"

burn, combust, undergo combustion

v. undergo combustion; "Maple wood burns well"

burn, incinerate

v. cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil"

flame, be aflame, be in flames

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

lie, tell a 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"

strain, deform, distort

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

lounge, loaf, lurk, mill about, mill around, tarry, linger, footle, loiter, lollygag, lallygag, be about, mess about, hang 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, make less tight

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

relax, loosen, become loose, become looser

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

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

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

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

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

dye, color with dye

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

stain, leave stains, produce stains

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

stain, mark with dye

v. color with a liquid dye or tint; "Stain this table a beautiful walnut color"; "people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"

touch, tint, tinge, tinct, bepaint

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

colorlessness, achromatism

n. the visual property of being without chromatic color

discolor, discolour, turn colorless, lose color

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

black and white, black-and-white

adj. not having or not capable of producing colors; "black-and-white film"; "a black-and-white TV"; "the movie was in black and white"

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