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Crosswords: OF COLOR |
| Etymologies containing "OF COLOR": Achroous, Antares ♦ Blacksmith, Bloodflower, Blushy, BRUIN, Bureau, Burnet ♦ Chromatic, Colorate, Columbella, Conite ♦ Debeige, Donkey ♦ Gules ♦ Inde, iodine ♦ livid ♦ malachite, mauve, Melanochroic, monochrome, Mustaiba ♦ rhodium ♦ Yellow-covered. (references) |
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Screenplays | I must go back and tell him what I think of him. The world must be safe so that men of all nations and creeds, regardless of color or religion, will be free to sneeze on their superiors! (The Good Doctor; writing credit: Anton Chekhov; Neil Simon) Rainbows are those little arches of color that show up after a rainstorm. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Women of Color 2 (1994) A Question of Color (1992) Women of Color (1991) | |
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![]() | The aristocracy of color.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The blessings of liberty or how to "hook" a "gentleman of color".Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1915) |
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Health | Women, particularly women of color, recently increased dramatically as a risk group in the United States and constitute 50 percent of those infected worldwide. (references) | |
The advent of the CA 125 serum tumor marker and improvements in pelvic ultrasound, along with newer techniques of color Doppler imaging (CDI) studies of ovarian vessels, have led some to advocate the use of these modalities in the attempt to detect early-stage ovarian cancer. (references) | ||
Business | Even a slight unevenness of color or other minor blemish can be a reason for products to be returned to the manufacturer by retailers. (references) | |
In terms of color preferences in building products, Turkey is generally a "warm" country and warm colors dominate consumer preferences. (references) | ||
Discrimination | Angola | Under the Constitution, all citizens are equal before the law and enjoy the same rights and responsibilities regardless of color, race, ethnicity, sex, place of birth, religion, ideology, degree of education, or economic or social condition. (references) |
Minorities | Hungary | Foreigners of color also reported harassment by police and at border control checkpoints. (references) |
Slovak Republic | They claimed that skinhead violence decreased during the year, and that police better protected citizens of color from this violence. (references) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | A racist nation doesn't make Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan icons in their fields, nor does it elevate Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Rod Paige and so many other people of color to positions of national leadership. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The captain, one American sea man, and two others of color remain prisoners with them unless exchanged under an agreement formerly made with the Bashaw, to whom, on the faith of that, some of his captive subjects had been restored. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We should find a solution to fair housing, so that every American, regardless of color, has a decent home of his choice. |
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Expressions using "OF COLOR": additive mixture of color stimuli ♦ change of color ♦ changing of color ♦ display of color ♦ gaiety of color ♦ lack of color ♦ people of color ♦ person of color ♦ richness of color ♦ ring of color ♦ riot of color ♦ scheme of color ♦ sense of color. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "OF COLOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كثرة في الألوان (riot of color, riot of colour), ألوان زاهية (riot of color, riot of colour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пищна картина (riot of color, riot of colour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | additiv farveblanding (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | additieve kleurvorming (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli), additieve kleurmenging (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhdistävä värinsekoitus (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli), additiivinen värinsekoitus (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | théorie de la vision d'Edridge-Green (Edridge-Green theory of color vision), mélange additif de stimuli de couleur (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Edridge-Green Theorie (Edridge-Green theory, Edridge-Green theory of color vision), additive Farbmischung (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσθετικό μίγμα χρωματικών ερεθισμάτων (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שלל צבעים (riot of color). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | miscela additiva di stimoli di colore (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 色覚 (sense of color), 色神 (sense of color), 色感 (sense of color), 色彩感覚 (sense of color), 変色 (change of color, discoloration, fading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しきしん (sense of color), しきさいかんかく (sense of color), しきかん (commander, sense of color), しきかく (sense of color), へんしょく (change of color, discoloration, fading, unbalanced diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofay olorcay mistura aditiva de estímulos de cor (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) tonalitate (key, scheme of color, scheme of colour, tonality, tone), acromatism (achromatism, lack of color, lack of colour). (various references) mezcla aditiva de estímulos de color (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli), brillante de colores (riot of color, riot of colour). (various references) färgskiftning (changing of color, changing of colour, hue, tinge, tint), färgsinne (sense of color, sense of colour), färgrikedom (richness of color, richness of colour), färgprakt (display of color, display of colour), färgglädje (gaiety of color, gaiety of colour), additiv färgstimulusblandning (additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-l-o-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: color, floor. | |
-3 letters: coof, cool, corf, floc, fool, loco, loof, rolf, roof. | |
-4 letters: col, coo, cor, for, fro, loo, orc, roc. | |
-5 letters: lo, of, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-l-o-o-o-r" | |
+3 letters: chloroform, floorcloth, footlocker. | |
+4 letters: chloroforms, floorcloths, fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, footlockers. | |
+5 letters: chloroformed, cuckooflower, fluorocarbon, fluorochrome, fluoroscoped, fluoroscopes, fluoroscopic, noncolorfast. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 46      43 4F 4C 4F 52 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01000110 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O F   C O L O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0046      0043 004F 004C 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)494023749464952 |
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