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Definition: COLORING |
COLORINGNoun1. Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. 2. The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Color |
Date "COLORING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: COLORINGSynonym: Dyeing. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exaggeration | Noun: exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance; (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry |
False coloring; (falsehood); aggravation. | |
Falsehood | Garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate; blague. |
Perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri; perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration; prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi; (lie); mystification; (concealment); simulation; (imitation); dissimulation, dissembling; deceit; blague. | |
Imagination | Noun: meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope. |
Misinterpretation | Misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration; false coloring, false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification; (lying). |
Misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble; (falsify); distort, detort; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring. | |
Painting | Pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish; a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry. |
Qualification | Noun: qualification, limitation, modification, coloring. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs: the T-shirt, Spaceballs: the coloring book, Spaceballs: the lunch box, Spaceballs: the breakfast cereal, Spaceballs: the flamethrower--the kids love this one--last but not least, Spaceballs: the doll (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks and Ronny Graham.) Mr. Karinski, 30 years old and you've spent the last 8 months coloring things (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Angel's as dull as a table lamp, and we have much different coloring. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Twice last week and my coloring was great (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) Really? She seems so plain and uninteresting. Her coloring is rather like wet Bisquick, and I'm sure she's blind as a bat without those glasses (Wonder Woman; writing credit: Sandra Paretti) | |
Lyrics | Coloring your face so dreamily (LAY DOWN SALLY; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Seen is melanoma, with coloring of different shades of brown, black, or tan. Part of the ABCDs for detection of melanoma. See artwork: WYNTK-15b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A juvenile American Lobster in natural cobble habitat in Rhode Island waters. The blue coloring in lobsters is thought to occur when the crustacean eats primarily one type of food in the lab. However, blue lobsters are occasionally found in the wild as a genetic anomaly. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Kiger mustang stallion, "Buttermilk," with Grulla coloring on Kiger HMA. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | The coloring in that sunset is exquisite. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Easter egg coloring. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Children receiving instructions in coloring drawings. Lakeview Project, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Close-up" by Kyle Prawel Commentary: "A close up image of a computer case. I really dig the coloring on the reflection, but was bummed to see some of it out of focus." | "Paper Plate Rainbow" by Kris Kelley Commentary: "This is food coloring on a paper plate (swirled around...obviously)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Health | Plaque can be stained by chewing red "disclosing tablets" sold at grocery stores and drug stores or by using a cotton swab to smear green food coloring on the teeth. (references) | |
People with WS may also have distinctive hair coloring, such as a patch of white hair or premature gray hair as early as age 12. Other possible physical features include a wide space between the inner corners of eyes called a broad nasal root. In addition persons with WS may have low frontal hairline and their eyebrows may connect. (references) | ||
Business | This report focuses only on dyestuff, a coloring substance generally used in textile factories. (references) | |
The coloring substance originating from organic synthesis has characteristics suitable for textile factories because it is soluble in solvent or medium, which is colored. (references) | ||
By the year 2000, China would have needed 3,300 tons of antioxidants, 65-70,000 of tons impact modifiers, 5,000 tons of lubricants, and a large amount of coloring agents. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | Most promising subsectors and estimated market size for 2002 are: Organic Chemicals ($143 million); Inorganic Chemicals ($77 million); Dyeing, Tanning, and Coloring materials ($105.5 million); Oils, Perfumes, and Flavors ($35 million); Resins and Plastic Materials ($250 million). (references) |
Colombia | Best sales prospects include white mineral oils, alcohol's, phenols, o-acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters, amino-acids, vegetable and synthetic tanning and coloring substances, essential oils, flavorings, fragrances or odoriferous (raw materials) substances, base chemical products for cosmetics, soaps, detergents and cleaning, sodium bicarbonate, phosphates, chlorides, iodine, camphor, and surface-active agents (tensoactives). (references) | |
Trade | Italy | In the case of food additives, coloring and modified starches, Italy's laws are considered to be close to current U.S. laws, albeit sometimes more restrictive. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore That color it would he! He shut himself from the world away, Nor any soul he saw. He smoke by night, he smoked by day, As hard as he could draw. His dog died moaning in the wrath Of winds that blew aloof; The weeds were in the gravel path, The owl was on the roof. "He's gone afar, he'll come no more," The neighbors sadly say. And so they batter in the door To take his goods away. Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb. "That pipe's a lovely white," they say, "But it has colored him!" The moral there's small need to sing -- 'Tis plain as day to you: Don't play your game on any thing That is a gamester too. Martin Bulstrode |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COLORING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COLORING" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "COLORING". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Kittim | N/A | Biblical | Coloring |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "COLORING": chemical coloring ♦ coloring admixture ♦ coloring agent ♦ coloring book ♦ coloring material ♦ coloring matter ♦ coloring principle ♦ Dead coloring ♦ false coloring ♦ food coloring ♦ Food Coloring Agents ♦ give a false coloring ♦ graph coloring ♦ hair coloring ♦ high coloring ♦ Prosthesis Coloring ♦ protective coloring. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "COLORING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngjyrosje (colouring, dyeing), lyerje (clearing, colouring, dab, dash, daub, dying, painting, whitewashing). (various references) | |
Arabic | تلويين (colouring), صبغة (colouring, nature, stain, tincture), أسلوب الرسام (colouring). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цвят на лицето (colouring, complexion), цвят (bloom, blossom, blow, color, colour, colouring, flower, hue, inflorescence, pick, suit, tint, tone), колорит (color, colour, colouring, race), влияние (action, colouring, credit, dominance, domination, drag, effect, empire, force, grip, gripe, hold, impact, influence, interest, leaven, prestige, pull, punch, purchase, reach, stimulus, sway), оцветяване (coloration, colouration, colouring, staining), оцветител (color additive, colour additive, colouring, paint, staining), преиначаване (colouring, subreption). (various references) | |
Chinese | 着色 (Coloration, colouring, Pigmented, tinged). (various references) | |
Czech | zkreslovaní (colouring), zkreslení (colouring, defacement, distortion), zbarvení (colouring, marking), přibarvování (colouring), barvivo (colouring, dye, pigment), barvicí prostředek (colouring), barva oblièeje (colouring). (various references) | |
Danish | kemisk farvning (chemical coloring, chemical colouring). (various references) | |
Dutch | kleuren (blush, color, colour, paint). (various references) | |
Finnish | kemiallinen värjäys (chemical coloring, chemical colouring). (various references) | |
French | coloration chimique (colouring), colorant (colorimeter, coloring agent, colour, colouring, colouring agent, counterstain), avivage (colouring off). (various references) | |
German | färbung (coloration, colouring, hue, pigmentation, tinge). (various references) | |
Greek | χημικός χρωματισμός (chemical coloring, chemical colouring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | színezés (coloration, colouration, colouring). (various references) | |
Italian | coloritura (colouring), colorazione (coloration, colour, colouration, colouring, tint), colorante (colouring, dye, stain, tincturing, tinting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 色素 (pigment), 色素 (pigment), 色付け (adding color), 発色 , 着色 (colouring), 彩り (assortment, color scheme, coloration, makeup), 呈色 (color, coloration). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しきそ (pigment), いろどり (assortment, color scheme, coloration, makeup), いろづけ (adding color), はっしょく, ていしょく (being contrary or incompatible, collision, color, coloration, conflict, contradiction, incompatibility, occupation, permanent planting, regular work, set meal, special, steady job, suspension from office), ていしき (color, coloration, formula), ちゃくしょく (colouring). (various references) | |
Korean | 그림물감 (colouring). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oloringcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corante (cochineal, color, colour, colouring, dye, dyestuff, pigment), colorido (color, colored, colorful, colour, coloured, colourful, colouring, hue, stained, tinted, turn-up), coloração (color, colour, colouration, tinge), disfarce (camouflage, cloak, cloaking, colouring, concealment, cover, disguise, disguising, dissimulation, fancy dress, mask, masquerade, veil, veiling, window dressing). (various references) | |
Romanian | agent colorant (coloring principle, colouring principle). (various references) | |
Russian | красящее вещество (colouring, dyestuff, dye-stuff, stain), колорит (colouring), окраска (coloration, colouration, colouring, dye, marking, paint, painting), окрашивать раскраска (colouring). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obojenost (color, coloration, colour, colouring), kolorit (colouring). (various references) | |
Spanish | colorido (color, coloration, colour, colouring), colorante (Browning, coloring matter, colouring, colouring matter, dye, dyestuff, tail). (various references) | |
Swedish | färglag (colouring). (various references) | |
Turkish | yanıltıcı görünüş (colouring), yüz rengi (color, colour, colouring), renklendirme (coloration, colouring, embellishment, staining, toning), renk (color, colour, colouring, complexion, dye, flush, hue, tincture, tint), boyama (color-wash, colouring, dye, dyeing, painting, stain), boya (color, colour, colouring, dye, paint, polish, stain). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відчуття кольору (colouring), забарвлення (color, coloration, colour, colouration, colouring, dye), барвник (colouring, dye-stuff, dye-ware, pigment, stain). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COLORING": colorings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "COLORING": decoloring, discoloring, miscoloring, recoloring. (additional references) | |
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"COLORING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caloing, Codorniu, cohorting, Colawrean, colloring, cologin, Colorno, comorien, Comorin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COLORING" (pronounced ku"lering) |
| 4 | -l er i ng | hollering, tailoring. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-l-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cooling, locoing, orcinol. | |
-2 letters: coloni, cooing, coring, logion, looing. | |
-3 letters: cling, cogon, coign, colin, colog, colon, color, congo, corgi, croon, giron, groin, igloo, incog, lingo, logic, logoi, nicol, orcin, orgic. | |
-4 letters: cion, clog, clon, coil, coin, coir, coni, cool, coon, corn, girl, girn, giro, goon, grin, icon, inro, iron, ling, lino, lion, loci, loco. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-l-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: colorings, colouring, longicorn. | |
+2 letters: carpooling, colorizing, craniology, decoloring, longicorns, neurologic, precooling, recoloring. | |
+3 letters: carpogonial, chronologic, controlling, criminology, croquignole, decolouring, dendrologic, discoloring, foreclosing, forelocking, miscoloring, necrologies, necrologist, overcooling, protocoling, reschooling. | |
+4 letters: chronologies, chronologist, comfortingly, craniologies, croquignoles, decolorizing, gerontologic, glycoprotein, motorcycling, necrological, necrologists, neurological, organoleptic, ornithologic, overclouding, polychroming, protocolling, recolonizing, roadblocking, supercooling, undercooling. | |
+5 letters: agronomically, bloodcurdling, childproofing, chloroforming, cholangiogram, chronobiology, chronological, chronologists, collaborating, conflagration, conglomeratic, congressional, coreligionist, criminologies, criminologist, decontrolling, dendrological, endocrinology, ergonomically, fluoroscoping, gastronomical, glorification, glycoproteins, incongruously, macroglobulin, monoglyceride, numerological, phrenological. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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