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[ US /ˈkəɫɝ, ˈkɔɫɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. affect as in thought or feeling
    My personal feelings color my judgment in this case
    The sadness tinged his life
  2. give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
    color a lie
  3. add color to
    colorize black and white film
    The child colored the drawings
    Fall colored the trees
  4. modify or bias
    His political ideas color his lectures
  5. decorate with colors
    color the walls with paint in warm tones
  6. change color, often in an undesired manner
    The shirts discolored
NOUN
  1. interest and variety and intensity
    the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
    the Puritan Period was lacking in color
  2. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
  3. the timbre of a musical sound
    the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
  4. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
    each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
  5. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
    the situation soon took on a different color
    he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity
    he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction
  6. 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
  7. any material used for its color
    she used a different color for the trim
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or capable of producing colors
    marvelous color illustrations
    color film
    he rented a color television

How To Use color In A Sentence

  • By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
  • The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
  • She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
  • A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell. Bird Cloud
  • This softly pigmented wax will help shape brows and give them a bit more color to look fuller.
  • Observing the affected knee may reveal dystrophic changes, alteration of skin color, calluses related to kneeling or occupational abuse of the knee, scars, scratches, or rashes.
  • I put on black eyeliner, mascara, red eye shadow with black tints towards the edges of my eyes, and ruby colored lipstick.
  • I said a few colorful words in our language, making him laugh.
  • Life can not fade , the multiple spot color can't accommodate oneself to wonderful just now best,alive.
  • Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
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