color

  1. Noun.  The spectral composition of visible light.
  2. Noun.  A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class; blee.
  3. Noun.  Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and greys).
  4. Noun.  Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  5. Noun.  (figuratively) interest, especially in a selective area.
  6. Noun.  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.
  7. Noun.  (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
  8. Noun.  (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  9. Noun.  A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.(rfex, also needs better-worded definition; also, this sense needs to be added to colour if in fact `colour` has this sense in areas that spell it that way) .
  10. Noun.  An appearance of right or authority.
  11. Adjective.  Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
  12. Verb.  To give something color.
  13. Verb.  To draw within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
  14. Verb.  (context, of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  15. Verb.  To affect without completely changing.
  16. Verb.  To attribute a quality to.
  17. Verb.  (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.