color

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”

interest and variety and intensity

• “the Puritan Period was lacking in color”
• “the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness”

the timbre of a musical sound

• “the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music”

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

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”

any material used for its color

• “she used a different color for the trim”

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

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

add color to

• “The child colored the drawings”
• “Fall colored the trees”
• “colorize black and white film”

affect as in thought or feeling

• “My personal feelings color my judgment in this case”
• “The sadness tinged his life”

modify or bias

• “His political ideas color his lectures”

decorate with colors

• “color the walls with paint in warm tones”

gloss or excuse

• “color a lie”

change color, often in an undesired manner

• “The shirts discolored”

having or capable of producing colors

• “color film”
• “he rented a color television”
• “marvelous color illustrations”