= colour 1) цвет, оттенок, тон 2) краска, красящее вещество; пигмент 3) цветной
[американский вариант английского языка]; смотри значение colour
1) цвет; тон; оттенок; колер 2) краска; красящее (окрашивающее) вещество, краситель; красить, окрашивать 3) колориметрическая характеристика 4) цветовая марка (нефтепродукта) Например: to blend color — составлять колер; to match colors — 1. сравнивать цвета 2. подбирать краски
1) цвет; оттенок; тон 2) краска, краситель; красить, окрашивать 3) колер, окраска, расцветка 4) пигмент 5) цветной; цветовой Например: purity of color — чистота цвета unevenness in color — неровность окраски to blend colors — смешивать цвета to discern colors — различать цвета to render color — передавать цвет to specify color — задавать цвет
I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English colour, from Anglo-French, from Latin color; akin to Latin celare to conceal — more at hell 1. a. a phenomenon of light (as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects b. (1) the aspect of the appearance of objects and light sources that may be described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation for objects and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources Example: the changing color of the sky; also a specific combination of hue, saturation, and lightness or brightness Example: comes in six colors (2) a color other than and as contrasted with black, white, or gray 2. a. an outward often deceptive show; appearance Example: his story has the color of truth b. a legal claim to or appearance of a right, authority, or office c. a pretense offered as justification; pretext Example: she could have drawn from the Versailles treaty the color of legality for any action she chose — Yale Review d. an appearance of authenticity; plausibility Example: lending color to this notion 3. complexion tint: a. the tint characteristic of good health b. blush 4. a. vividness or variety of effects of language b. local color 5. a. an identifying badge, pennant, or flag — usually used in plural Example: a ship sailing under Swedish colors b. colored clothing distinguishing one as a member of a particular group or representative of a particular person or thing — usually used in plural Example: a jockey wearing the colors of the stable 6. a. plural position as to a question or course of action; stand Example: the USSR changed neither its colors nor its stripes during all of this — Norman Mailer b. character, nature — usually used in plural Example: showed himself in his true colors 7. a. the use or combination of colors b. two or more hues employed in a medium of presentation Example: movies in color 8. plural a. a naval or nautical salute to a flag being hoisted or lowered b. armed forces 9. vitality, interest Example: the play had a good deal of color to it 10. something used to give color; pigment 11. the quality of timbre in music Example: the color and richness of the cello 12. skin pigmentation especially other than white characteristic of race Example: a person of color 13. a small particle of gold in a gold miner's pan after washing 14. analysis of game action or strategy, statistics and background information on participants, and often anecdotes provided by a sportscaster to give variety and interest to the broadcast of a game or contest Example: a color commentator 15. a hypothetical property of quarks that differentiates each type into three forms having a distinct role in binding quarks together II. verb transitive verb 1. a. to give color to b. to change the color of (as by dyeing, staining, or painting) 2. to change as if by dyeing or painting: as a. misrepresent, distort b. gloss, excuse Example: color a lie c. influence Example: the lives of most of us have been colored by politics — Christine Weston 3. characterize, label Example: call it progress; color it inevitable with shades of job security — C. E. Price intransitive verb to take on color; specifically blush • colorer noun