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Definition: Color |
ColorAdjective1. (photography) "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "in glorious color"; "marvelous color illustrations". Noun1. A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "white is made up of many different wavelengths of light". 2. Interest and variety and intensity: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color". 3. The timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music". 4. A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks). 5. Outward or token appearance or form; "he tried to give his actions a semblance of authenticity"; "the situation soon took on a different color". 6. Any material used for its color. 7. (high energy physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors. 8. The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation. Verb1. Add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film". 2. Distort; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case". 3. Modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures". 4. Decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones". 5. Gloss or excuse; "color a lie". 6. Change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "color" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | Color |
Medicine | A)the perceived colour:an aspect of visual perception by which an observer may distinguish differences between two fields of view of the same size, shape and structure, as may be caused by differences in the spectral composition of the radiation concerned in the observation; b)the psychophysical colour:a characteristic of a visible radiation by which an observer may distinguish differences between two fields of view of the same size, shape and structure, as may be caused by differences in the spectral composition of the radiation concerned in the observation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A trace of metallic gold found in a prospector's pan after a sample of soil or of gravel has been panned out. Prospectors say, e.g., the dirt gave so many colors to the panful. b. The shade or tint of the soil or rock that indicates ores; e.g., gossan coloration. c. Color is an important property used in megascopic and microscopic determination of minerals. It depends on the selective absorption or reflection of certain wavelengths of light by the mineral during transmission or reflection. The color of metallic (or metal-bearing) minerals is a fairly constant property, whereas that of nonmetallic minerals is generally less so owing to the pigmentation effect of minor impurities. The color of a massive mineral is commonly different from that of its powder or streak. d. The Munsell notation has come into wide use for the designation of colors of rocks and soils. In this system, a color is specified by the three variables of hue (dominant spectral color), value (brilliance), and chroma (saturation or purity), and written in the order and form:hue-value-chroma. e.g., the dirt gave so many colors to the panful. b. The shade or tint of the soil or rock that indicates ores; e.g., gossan coloration. c. Color is an important property used in megascopic and microscopic determination of minerals. It depends on the selective absorption or reflection of certain wavelengths of light by the mineral during transmission or reflection. The color of metallic (or metal-bearing) minerals is a fairly constant property, whereas that of nonmetallic minerals is generally less so owing to the pigmentation effect of minor impurities. The color of a massive mineral is commonly different from that of its powder or streak. d. The Munsell notation has come into wide use for the designation of colors of rocks and soils. In this system, a color is specified by the three variables of hue (dominant spectral color), value (brilliance), and chroma (saturation or purity), and written in the order and form:hue-value-chroma. (references) |
Space | A quality of light, depending on its wavelength. Spectral color of an emission of light is its place in the rainbow spectrum. Perceived color (or visual color) is the quality of light emission as conveyed by the human eye, combining the impressions of 3 types of light-sensitive cells which the eye contains. Perceived color can be the response to certain combinations of spectral colors, e.g. brown responds to green and red (or blue, yellow and red). (references) |
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Color (American English) or colour (British English) is the sensation caused by light as it interacts with the eye, brain, and our experience. The perception of colour is also greatly influenced by nearby colours in the visual scene. The term color is also used for the property of objects that gives rise to these sensations.
- Other meanings: Color (disambiguation).
color wavelength interval frequency interval red ~ 625-740 nm ~ 480-405 THz orange ~ 590-625 nm ~ 510-480 THz yellow ~ 565-590 nm ~ 530-510 THz green ~ 520-565 nm ~ 580-530 THz cyan ~ 500-520 nm ~ 600-580 THz blue ~ 450-500 nm ~ 670-600 THz indigo ~ 430-450 nm ~ 700-670 THz violet ~ 380-430 nm ~ 790-700 THz (The frequencies are approximations and given in terahertz (THz). The wavelengths, valid in vacuum, are given in nanometers (nm). A list of other objects of similar size is available. )
The table above should not be interpreted as a definite list--the pure spectral colors form a continuous spectrum, and how it is divided into distinct colors is a matter of taste and culture. Similarly, the intensity of a spectral color may alter its perception considerably; for example, a low-intensity orange-yellow is brown, and a low-intensity yellow-green is olive-green.
Most colors are not pure spectral; these are created from mixtures of various wavelengths and intensities of light. Examples of non-spectral colors are the achromatic colors (black, gray and white), pastel (desaturated) colors such as pink or tan, and magenta.
Color Vision
Although Aristotle and other ancient scientists speculated on the nature of light and color vision, it was not until Newton that light was correctly identified as the source of the color sensation. Goethe studied the theory of colors, and in 1801 Thomas Young proposed his trichromatic theory which was later refined by Hermann von Helmholtz. That theory was confirmed in the 1960s and will be described below.
The human eye contains three different types of color receptor cells, or cones. The first ("red") are most responsive to wavelengths around 565 nm, the second ("green") to those around 535 nm, and the third ("blue") to those around 445 nm. The sensitivity curves of the cones are roughly bell-shaped and overlap considerably. The incoming signal spectrum is thus reduced by the eye to three values, representing the intensity of the response of each of these types of color receptors.
Because of the overlap between the sensitivity ranges, not all combinations of stimuli are actually possible. For instance, it is not possible to only stimulate the "green" cone: at least one of the other cones will always be stimulated to some degree at the same time. The set of all combinations of stimuli that are possible make up the human color space.
One can picture this space as a region in three-dimensional Euclidean space if one identifies the X variable with the "red" stimulus, Y with "green" and Z with "blue". The origin (X,Y,Z) = (0,0,0) corresponds to black, and the point (X,Y,Z) = (1,1,1), i.e. full response of all three receptors, corresponds to white. The human color space is a region with these two points as corners, somewhat shaped like a pointy ellipsoid. The greys are located along a straight line connecting the two corners. The most saturated colors are located at the outer rim of the region, with brighter colors farther removed from the origin.
It has been estimated that humans can distinguish roughly 10 million different colors, although the identification of a specific color is highly subjective, since even the eyes of a single individual perceive colors slightly differently. If one or more types of a person's color-sensing cones isn't responding correctly to incoming light, that person has a smaller color space and is said to be color blind. Other animals may have more than three different color receptors (some birds and reptiles) or fewer (most mammals). There is an interesting phenomenon which occurs when an artist uses a limited color palette: the eye tends to compensate by seeing any grey or neutral color as the color which is missing from the color wheel. E.g.: in a limited palette consisting of red, yellow, black, and white, a mixture of yellow and black will appear as a variety of green, a mixture of red and black will appear as a variety of purple, and pure grey will appear bluish.
Different cultures have different terms for colours, and may also assign some colour names to slightly different parts of the spectrum, or have a different colour ontology: for instance, the Japanese colour aoi can be interpreted as meaning something between the Western colour terms of "blue" and "green": green is regarded as a shade of aoi.
Reproduction of color
Two different light spectra which have the same effect on the three color receptors will be perceived as the same color. This is exemplified by the color cyan: cyan is a pure spectral color whose wavelength is located just between the responsitivity peaks of the "green" and "blue" cones. A cyan color experience can thus also be generated by an equal mixture of those two peak wavelengths, as long as these don't stimulate the red receptor. The human eye (as opposed to the bird's eye or the spectroscopist) then won't be able to tell the difference between pure spectral cyan and green-blue mixed cyan.
In the same way, most human color perceptions can be generated by a mixture of three colors called primaries. This is used to reproduce color scenes in photogaphy, printing, television, and other media.
Transmissive media
Media that transmit light (such as television) use additive color mixing with primary colors of red, green, and blue which are close to the wavelengths that generate peak responses of the eye's color receptors. This is called "RGB" color space. Mixtures of light of these primary colors cover a large part of the human color space and thus produce a large part of human color experiences. This is why color television sets or color computer monitors need only produce mixtures of red, green and blue light.
Other primary colors could in principle be used, but with red, green and blue the largest portion of the human color space can be captured. Unfortunately there is no exact consensus as to what frequency the red, green, and blue lights should be, so the same RGB values can give rise to slightly different colors on different screens.
Note that the color experience of a given light mixture may vary with absolute luminosity, due to the fact that both rods and cones are active at once in the eye, with each having different color curves, and rods taking over gradually from cones as the brightness of the scene is reduced. This effect leads to a change in color rendition with absolute illumination levels that can be summarised in the "Kruithof curve".
Reflective media
When producing a color print or painting a surface, the applied paint changes the surface; if the surface is then illuminated with white light (which consists of equal intensities of all visible wavelengths), the reflected light will have a spectrum corresponding to the desired color.
It is possible to achieve a large range of colors seen by humans by combining cyan, magenta, and yellow transparent dyes/inks on a white substrate. These are the subtractive primary colors. Often a fourth black is added to improve reproduction of some dark colors. This is called "CMY" or "CMYK" color space.
The cyan ink will reflect all but the red light, the yellow ink will reflect all but the blue light and the magenta ink will reflect all but the green light. This is because cyan light is an equal mixture of green and blue, yellow is an equal mixture of red and green, and magenta light is an equal mixture of red and blue.
HSV color space
The RGB and CMYK color spaces are most useful for technical reproduction of color scenes. A color space that more closely models the human experience is the HSV color space which arranges colors in a three-dimensional cone, somewhat similar to the human color space discussed above. The tip of the cone corresponds to black. If the pure spectral colors are extended by mixtures of red and blue, they can be arranged in a circle or "color wheel" (which was already known to Newton), the mouth of the cone. The position of a color on this circle is its hue. In the HSV space, every color is specified by its hue, saturation (distance from the circle's center) and value (luminosity).
The HSV color space was already used by 19th century physiologist Ewald Hering.
Color constancy
The trichromatric theory discussed above is strictly true only if the whole scene seen by the eye is of one and the same color, which of course is unrealistic. In reality, the brain compares the various colors in a scene, in order to eliminate the effects of the illumination. If a scene is illuminated with one light, and then with another, its colors will nevertheless appear constant to us. This was discovered by Edwin Land in the 1970s and lead to his retinex theory of color constancy.
Structural color
Structural colour is a property of some surfaces that are scored with fine parallel lines or formed of many thin parallel layers to make a diffraction grating. The grating absorbs some wavelengths more than others, causing white light to be reflected as colored light. Variations in the pattern's spacing often give rise to an iridescent effect, as seen in peacock feathers, films of oil, and mother of pearl.
Associations
Different colors are often associated with different emotional states, values or groups. These associations can vary among cultures and will be explained on the pages describing the individual colors.
see also: National colours
See also
- Metamerism
- Color temperature
- Political parties and colors
References
- The International Commission on Illumination defines colors and color spaces.
- Kruithof curve citation
- Article by technical lighting manufacturer on rod/cone vision, with cites to literature
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Color."
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Color (American usage); colour (international usage)
- Color is a visible property of light, and, derived from this, of objects and substances. For pure monochromatic light, color is directly determined by the energy per photon. For mixtures of light, see color vision.
- In quantum chromodynamics, color or color charge, refers figuratively to a certain property of quarks. It can attain the three values "red", "green" and "blue". Quarks of different colors are attracted and quarks of like color are repelled by the strong nuclear force. Color charge is not related to electromagnetic radiation or human color perception in any way.
- In astronomy, color is the difference of the observed magnitudes of an object in two different wavelengths.
- In journalism, color is vivid but peripheral commentary on an event, especially in broadcast sports.
- In law, color refers to certain prima facie rights.
- In typography, color is the apparent tone of a page of type; a well-justified and properly spaced page is said to have a good color, whereas a poorly-spaced specimen will be uneven and broken with "rivers" of white space and other flaws.
- In a deck of playing cards, a color is any of the four suits hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs.
- In politics, colors are associated with different parties or ideological factions. The classifications vary in different parts of the world. Red is often associated with socialism or communism (but also with the US Republican Party), black with anarchism, blue with conservative parties (but with the US Democratic Party), and green with environmentalists.
- See also: Color code.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Color (disambiguation)."
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Color vision is the visual ability to perceive and correctly interpret color (that is, different wavelengths of visible light) and especially lighting cues.In order for animals to form a meaningful picture of the world, their visual system need to correctly interpret the form of objects around them. A major component of this is perception of colors.
Color perception
Perception of color is achieved in primates through color receptors. In primates there are three types color of color receptors that are attuned to (roughly) red, green, and blue frequencies of light. A particular frequency of light (for example, yellow) will stimulate each of these receptors to varying degrees (e.g., yellow light will stimulate red and green receptors strongly, but will only stimulate blue receptors weakly). The visual system combines the information from each type of receptor to calculate the wavelength of the original light. Cones for red and green color perception are encoded in the X chromosome; defective encoding of these leads to color blindness and is more frequent in males than in females.
Other animals enjoying three-color vision include tropical fish and birds. In the latter case multicolor perception is achieved through a single cone type. Brightly colored oil-droplets inside the cones are used to shift the perceived wavelength. Still other species have less effective two-receptor color perception systems, or simple monochromatic, single-receptor systems.
Color perception mechanisms are highly dependant on evolutionary factors. Satisfactory recognition of food sources is the most prominent of these. In herbivorous primates, color perception is essential for finding proper (mature) leaves. In hummingbirds particular flower types are often recognized by color as well. There are some hints as to the importance of ultraviolet and infrared color perception in nature as well.
Chromatic adaptation
A given object may be viewed under various conditions. For example, we may see it in the sunlight, in the light of a fire, or illuminated by a harsh electric light. In all of these situations, our visual system tells us that the object has the same color: an apple always appears red, whether we look at it at night or during the day. This feature of the visual system is called chromatic adaptation.
Chromatic adaptation is one of the more easily fooled aspects of vision, and is prone to some of the most spectacular optical illusions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Color vision."
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Human skin color can range from almost black to pinkish white in different people. In general, people with ancestors from sunny regions have darker skin than people with ancestors from regions with less sunlight. On average, women have slightly lighter skin than men.
Skin color is determined by the amount and type of the pigment melanin in the skin. Melanin comes in two types: phaeomelanin (red to yellow) and eumelanin (dark brown to black). Both amount and type are determined by 4-6 genes which operate under incomplete dominance. One copy of each of those genes is inherited from the father and one from the mother. Each gene comes in several alleles, resulting in a great variety of different skin colors.
Dark skin protects against skin cancer, mutations in skin cells induced by ultraviolet light. Light-skinned persons have about a tenfold greater risk of dying from skin cancer under equal sun conditions. Furthermore, dark skin prevents UV-A radiation from destroying the essential B vitamin folate. Folate is needed for the synthesis of DNA in dividing cells and too low levels of folate in pregnant women are associated with birth defects.
The advantage of light skin is that it lets more sunlight through, which leads to increased production of vitamin D3, necessary for calcium absorption and bone growth. The lighter skin of women results either from sexual preference or from the higher calcium needs of women during pregnancy and lactation.
The evolution of the different skin colors is thought to have occurred as follows: the haired ancestor of humans, like modern great apes, had light skin under their hair. Once the hair was lost, they evolved dark skin, needed to prevent low folate levels since they lived in sun-rich Africa. (The skin cancer connection is probably of secondary importance, since skin cancer usually kills only after the reproductive age and therefore doesn't exert much evolutionary pressure.) When humans migrated to sun-poorer regions in the north, low vitamin D3 levels became a problem and light skin color evolved.
Dark-skinned people who live in sun-poor regions often lack vitamin D3, one reason for the fortification of milk with vitamin D in some countries.
The Inuit are a special case: even though they live in an extremely sun-poor environment, they have retained their relatively dark skin. This can be explained by the fact that their traditional animal-based diet provides plenty of vitamin D.
Albinism is a condition characterized by the absence of melanin, resulting in white skin and hair; it is caused by a genetic mutation.
Skin color has sometimes been used in an attempt to define human races; see also racism.
See also:
Human physical appearance, Sunshine, Tanning.References:
- Nina G. Jablonski, George Chaplin, "Skin Deep", Scientific American, Vol 287 No 4, October 2002
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Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the physical theory describing one of the fundamental forces, the strong interaction. It was first proposed in the early 1970s by Frank Wilczek and David Gross. It uses quantum field theory to describe the interaction of quarks and gluons.
According to this theory, there is an SU(3) gauge group and that the quarks are SU(3) triplet Dirac fermion fieldss. QCD is a non-perturbative theory due to effects like confinement, fermion condensates and instantons.
Most theoretical work on QCD is done with lattice models.
See also Gauge theory, Strong interaction, QCD lattice model, Fermion condensate, Quantum field theory. una
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CODE | English | COlor Depth Enhancement | Computer - (ATI) |
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Synonyms: ColorSynonyms: colour (adj), coloring (n), coloring material (n), colouring (n), colouring material (n), people of color (n), people of colour (n), semblance (n), vividness (n), color in (v), colorise (v), colorize (v), colour in (v), colourise (v), colourize (v), discolor (v), discolour (v), distort (v), emblazon (v), gloss (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: black-and-white (adj), colorlessness (n), discolor (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissuasion | Noun: pretext, pretense, pretension, plea; allegation, advocation; ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason; excuse; (vindication); subterfuge; color; gloss, guise, cover. |
Exaggeration | Heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color; (misrepresent); puff; (boast). |
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. |
Painting | Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent). |
Probability | Vraisemblance, verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence; credibility. |
Resentment | Pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit. |
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Screenplays | Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Just for color. (Alien: Resurrection; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) And don't let this robe fool you, this is the only color they had left (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) What color are their hands now (The Great Muppet Caper; writing credit: Jerry Juhl, Tom Patchett, Jack Rose, and Jay Tarses) Uh, what color would that be (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) | |
Lyrics | I feel like the color blue (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith) Can't see color (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) Iridescent socks with the same color shirt (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) When paintings have no color, words don't rhyme (Sentimental Lady; performing artist: BOB WELCH; writing credit: Bob Welch) Color cafe au lait, alright (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) | |
Clever | Love sees no color. (references; author: unknown) When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn? (references; author: unknown) What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Negro es un bello color (1974) De que color es el viento (1972) Un Elefante color ilusión (1970) Color de España (1970) Dele color al difunto (1970) | |
Song Titles | Shizku Is Color of Tears (performing artist: Pugs) Color Him Father (performing artist: The Winstons) | |
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 | (7) color slides show a single bowl of cooked hot cereal, oatmeal. (3) with milk, (2) plain, (2) topped with brown sugar or maple syrup. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | (4) color slides show a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the top slice of bread is turned clockwise so as to see the peanut butter and jelly filling. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | The endospores of C. botulinum when stained using the Malachite Green staining method will appear as green spheres, while the bacilli themselves will turn purple in color. Credit: CDC. |  | Gram-stain technique, which employs crystal violet as the primary stain, imparts a purplish-brown color to bacteria that stain Gram-positive. Those that stain with the pink-red fuchsin counterstain are said to stain Gram-negative. Credit: CDC. |
 | This sphere is an example of using a time-dependent expression to color a surface. |  | Here is an 8D graph -- a 3D array of time-dependent 3D vectors, using color to show a pressure wave propagating through the moving vectors. |
 | Global Color Mosaic of Triton. Credit: NASA. |  | A natural color NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the full disk of the giant planet ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The globular cluster M15 is shown in this color image obtained with the Hubble telescope. ... Credit: NASA. |  | Natural color image of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) compared with ground-based photo. Credit: NASA. |
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| "Color in Mexico_5" by Carlosalba@mail.com Commentary: "Ritual of Color." | "Color balls" by Pablo Rosciani Commentary: "A lot of balls." |
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Dante Alighieri | With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. |
John Locke | We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. |
John Ruskin | The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. |
| Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. | |
Mrs. Jameson | In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of thought. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. |
Thomas Carlyle | The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. |
| If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart. | |
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Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2022 | The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude-- Section 2. (reference) |
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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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | On the wall a picture of an Indian girl in color, labeled Red Wing |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | His clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the same color. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color. |
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Health | Heme also gives blood its color. (references) | |
It is often white, ivory, or gray in color. (references) | ||
Sometimes, hair may grow back a different color or texture. (references) | ||
Business | The most popular color is royal blue in any color combination. (references) | |
Germany is the leading supplier of hair color products to Russia. (references) | ||
Cell phones that have multiple features in sound and color are very popular. (references) | ||
Discrimination | Brazil | The Secretariat also continued to operate a hot line for complaints of prejudice, discrimination, or other crimes based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin. (references) |
Malta | The Constitution and law prohibit discrimination based on race, place of origin, political opinion, color, creed, or sex, and the Government generally respects this prohibition. (references) | |
Trinidad and Tobago | The Government generally respects in practice the constitutional provisions for fundamental human rights and freedoms for all without discrimination based on race, origin, color, religion, or sex. (references) | |
Economic History | Austria | Prices for color and laser printers are steadily declining. (references) |
Burma | Living Color, 38st, 1st Floor, Ma Po Street, Myay Ni Gone, Sanchaung P.O. (references) | |
Pakistan | Television is broadcast in color on three channels, using the PAL system. (references) | |
Human Rights | Angola | There were unconfirmed reports that UNITA rebels targeted citizen NGO employees in the country, using darker skin color as the primary means of distinguishing them from foreign employees. (references) |
Indigenous People | Australia | The law prohibits discrimination on grounds of race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin. (references) |
Minorities | Hungary | Foreigners of color also reported harassment by police and at border control checkpoints. (references) |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | The 2002 budget eliminates import duties on other film for color photography of paper, paperboard, and textiles. (references) |
MALAYSIA | Import duties on 27 items, which are competitive or not produced locally (including hydraulic fluids, color television receivers, and binoculars) have been abolished. (references) | |
ISRAEL | In mid-2000, purchase taxes were eliminated or reduced on more than 600 items, including imported products like color televisions, refrigerators, VCRs, dishwashers and cosmetics. (references) | |
Trade | Ireland | However, the imperial units shall not be more prominent than the metric units in size, color, or position. (references) |
Israel | Marking details should be clear, legible and in a different color from the background in order to be clearly distinguishable. (references) | |
Egypt | The scientific name of the color ingredient and the percentage of concentration must be indicated on the Analysis Certificate. (references) | |
Travel | Armenia | The picture can be black-and-white or color. (references) |
Chad | Reliable and reasonably priced taxis are yellow in color. (references) | |
Senegal | Ground Transportation: Taxis (black-yellow in color) are cheap, numerous and available everywhere in Dakar. (references) | |
Women | Czech Republic | Amendments to the law in 1999 and 2000 explicitly prohibit employment discrimination based on a variety of factors, including sex, race, skin color, sexual orientation, language, faith, health and family status, and repeated offenses are punishable by fines of up to 1 million Czech crowns. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Because the truth is, the secret to building the ideal American family has nothing to do with gender or genetics or color. |
Rush Limbaugh | Where conservatives look at people as individuals, Democrats looked at color. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | That a change in the relations in which a man is placed should change his ideas of moral right or wrong, is neither new, nor peculiar to the color of the blacks. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Civil Rights But America stands for progress in human rights as well as economic affairs, and a strong America requires the assurance of full and equal rights to all its citizens, of any race or of any color. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Justice means a man's hope should not be limited by the color of his skin. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Color" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Color" is used about 110 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% | 110 | 30,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "color". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Galatia | N/A | Biblical | The color of milk |
| Sorek | N/A | Biblical | A color inclining to yellow |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Denmark | Color Print A/S | Germany | CeWe Color Holding |
| Japan | Horiuchi Color Ltd. | Norway | Color Group ASA |
| South Korea | Songwon Color | USA | Accent Color Sciences, Inc. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "color": Accidental color ♦ acetate color disperse dye ♦ achromatic color ♦ additive mixture of color stimuli ♦ Adjective color ♦ all one color ♦ aperture color ♦ automatic color gain control ♦ body color ♦ book with color illustrations ♦ by the color and peculiarities of wine ♦ camouflage color ♦ change color ♦ change of color ♦ changing of color ♦ chromatic color ♦ CIE 1964 uniform color space ♦ color aberration ♦ color additive ♦ color axis ♦ color bar ♦ color bearer ♦ color bleeding ♦ color blend ♦ color blind ♦ Color blindness ♦ color box ♦ Color breathing ♦ color chart ♦ color circle ♦ color code ♦ color coding ♦ color coding of traffic flow information ♦ color combination ♦ color constancy ♦ color creation ♦ color film ♦ color filter ♦ color fixation ♦ color force ♦ color gamut ♦ color Graphics Adapter ♦ color guard ♦ color imagery ♦ Color imagination ♦ color in ♦ color key ♦ color killer ♦ color line ♦ color man ♦ Color Meditation ♦ color mode ♦ color model ♦ color normalization ♦ color of law ♦ color of the face ♦ color of the hair ♦ color paste ♦ Color Perception ♦ color perception requirement ♦ color photo ♦ color photography ♦ Color pranic healing ♦ color print ♦ color printer ♦ color printing ♦ Color projection ♦ color property ♦ Color psychology ♦ color red ♦ color refraction ♦ color registration ♦ color rinse ♦ color room ♦ color scheme ♦ color sergeant ♦ color set ♦ color spectrum ♦ Color synergy ♦ color table ♦ color television ♦ color television set ♦ color television system ♦ color television tube ♦ color test ♦ color that rests the eyes ♦ Color Therapy ♦ color too highly ♦ color transparency ♦ color tube ♦ color TV ♦ color tv set ♦ color TV tube ♦ color up ♦ color vision ♦ Color Vision Defects ♦ color vision deficiency ♦ color wash ♦ color well ♦ color wheel ♦ Complementary color. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "color": Color-blind, color-blindness, color-code, color-fast, color-flow, color-furnishing, color-wash. | |
Ending with "color": background-color, brick-color, dan-color, dove-color, flesh-color, multi-color, off-color, over-color, parti-color, Self-color, Slate-color, snuff-color, straw-color, Three-color. | |
Containing "color": all-color film, four-color glossies, four-color printing, snuff snuff-brown snuff-color snuff-colour snuff-colored snuff-coloured mummy-brown chukker-brown, straw-color straw-colored straw-coloured, water-color painter. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
color liberty page statue | 6,805 | color blindness | 362 |
hair color | 4,351 | color scheme | 360 |
color laser printer | 2,957 | hexadecimal color code | 343 |
color | 2,470 | color climax | 322 |
color wheel | 2,443 | in living color | 318 |
game boy color rom | 960 | game boy color emulator | 309 |
html color code | 868 | code color converter hexadecimal | 299 |
color chart | 851 | html color chart | 297 |
game boy color | 720 | color therapy | 277 |
color contact | 719 | color copier | 250 |
color contact lens | 703 | water color | 248 |
color page | 659 | color electromagnetic | 248 |
color code | 605 | color guard | 236 |
color printer | 604 | color sidekick | 233 |
color profile | 588 | world color | 231 |
color purple | 585 | basic color in listbox visual | 231 |
game boy color cheat | 551 | hair style color | 227 |
loreal hair color | 466 | living color | 224 |
c0c0c0 color hr noshade | 379 | color theory | 219 |
picture to color | 372 | color meaning | 219 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "color"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down), skuqje (colour, flush, glow, incandescence, reddening, redness), skuqem (become flushed, become red, blush, colour, crimson, get red in the face, glow), nuancë (cast, colour, nuance, shade, spice, tincture, tinge, tint, undertone), ngjyroset (colour, dye), ngjyros (colour, dye, embroider, engrain, tinge), ngjyrë (colour, dye, hue, paint, tint), ngjyej (colour, Dunk, dye, imbue, make smb. up, pepper, plaster, soak), ndikoj (affect, bias, colour, influence, operate, prepossess, sway), lyej (anoint, black, colour, daub, dye, lubricate, miniate, overspread, paint, retouch, smear, tint, whitewash), i jap një karakter të caktuar (colour), hije (apparition, background, cloud, colour, dark, ghost, loom, phantasm, phantom, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, shadow, spirit, spook, umbra, wraith), bojë (colour, dye, paint, suffusion), çehre (cast, colour, complexion, face). (various references) | |
Arabic | مظهر خارجي (appearance, colour, face, front, likeness, outside, physiognomy, semblance, show), لون محلي (colour), لون (colour, dapple, paint, shade, stain, suffuse, tinge, tint, variegate), وجهة نظر (angle, colour, dogmatism, estimation, mind, opinion, perspective, point of view, sentiment, slant, standpoint, viewpoint), تورد البشرة (colour), صبغ (colour, dye, dyestuff, imbue, pigment, pigmentation, tincture), صباغ (colour, dyer, dyestuff, stain), اللون (colour, course), راية (banner, colour, ensign, flag, maniple, rag, standard, waft), شوه (assassinate, blemish, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), بشرة (colour, complexion, cuticle, epidermis, outer skin, skin). (various references) | |
Asturian | collor. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | окраска (coloration, colour, colouration, tint), изопачавам (become distorted, bend, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, distort, falsify, mangle, mutilate, pervert, torture, travesty, turn about, twist), индивидуалност (colour, individuality, personality, self-hood, thisness), пигментирам (colour, pigment), поруменявам (blush, colour, flush), претекст (alibi, colour, come off, excuse, peg, plea, pretence, pretense, pretext, put off, salvo, stalking horse, subterfuge), багра (colour, suffusion, tinge, tint, tone), добивам цвят (colour), обагрям (become purple, colour, dye, empurple, imbrue, imbue, incarnadine, mantle, parboil, pigment, purple, tint), украсявам (adorn, array, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, enchase, enrich, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, lard, ornament, prank, set, titivate, trim), оцветявам (colour, illuminate, imbrue, mottle, paint, pigment, stain, tincture, tint), колорит (coloring, colour, colouring, race), краска (colour), цвят (bloom, blossom, blow, coloring, colour, colouring, flower, hue, inflorescence, pick, suit, tint, tone), руменина (blush, colour, flush, glow, high color, redness, suffusion), следа от злато (colour), боядисвам (colour, decorate, dip, engrain, paint, wash). (various references) | |
Chinese | 色 (appearance, dice, look), 颜色 (colors, colour, colours, hue), 顏色 , 顏 (countenance), 彩色 (multi-colored), 彩 (applaud, applause, prize, variety). (various references) | |
Cornish | lyw. (various references) | |
Czech | zkreslit (colour, deface, distort, manipulate, misrepresent, skew), zbarvit se (colour), zabarvení (colour, tinge), vybarvit se (colour), vlajka (colour, flag, pennant, pennon), ráz (colour, complexion), prapor (banner, battalion, colour, ensign, flag), natřít (colour, raddle), nabarvit (colour), dostat barvu (catch a sun, colour), barvitost (colour), barvit (colour, dye), barva (colour, dye, hue, paint, suit). (various references) | |
Danish | farve (colour, dye, paint, tint). (various references) | |
Dutch | verven (colour, dye, paint, tint), kleuren (blush, colour, paint), kleur (colour, dye, emblem, red). (various references) | |
Esperanto | koloro (colour, dye), kolorigi (colour, paint). (various references) | |
Finnish | väri (colour, colouring, dye, hue, paint, suit, tint). (various references) | |
French | couleur (colour), colorer. (various references) | |
German | Farbe (colour, dye, hue, ink, paint, shade, suit, tint), färben (bias, colour, dye, dyeing, paint, run, slant, tinge, tint, to colour). (various references) | |
Greek | χρώμα (colour, dye, paint, pigment). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לצבוע (colour, paint, tincture, tinge, tint), גון (colour, complexion, hue, nuance, shade, timbre, tinge, tint, tone), צביון (character, colour, form, nature, tone), צבע (colour, dye, hue, paint, tincture, tint). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szinez (colour), szín (colour, complexion, drab, dye, face, high colour, hovel, lean-to, pure, scene, scene of action, setting, tint), festék (body of paint, colour, dye, dyestuff, paint, pigment, stain), arcszín (colour, complexion). (various references) | |
Indonesian | corak (complexion, design, feature, hue, motif, pattern, type), mengecat (paint, tint), mencat (paint). (various references) | |
Irish | dath (colour, dye). (various references) | |
Italian | colore (colour, dye, hue, paint, pigment, tint). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 隈取り (shading), カポシ肉腫 (cam, camellia, camembert, cameo, camera, camera angle, camera position, camera rehearsal, camera reportage, camera work, camera-eye, cameraman, camomile, camouflage, CAMUS, chameleon, collar, collarless, color arrangement, color box, color combination, color conditioning, color coordinator, color display, color dynamics, color ink, color marking pen, color mechanical tint, color planning, color rinse, color screentone, color spraypaint, colored, colored steel sheet, colorless, colour, comeback, cummerbund, French cognac, kapok, Kaposi sarcoma, kayak, younger members of the group), 呈色 (coloration, coloring). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くまどり (shading), カラー (collar, colour), ていしょく (being contrary or incompatible, collision, coloration, coloring, conflict, contradiction, incompatibility, occupation, permanent planting, regular work, set meal, special, steady job, suspension from office), ていしき (coloration, coloring, formula). (various references) | |
Korean | 군기 (colors, colour, colours). (various references) | |
Papago | mahsith (to color). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olorcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cor (colour, dye, hue, paint, tinge, turn-up). (various references) | |
Romanian | caracter (aspect, character, characteristic, colour, complexion, composition, constitution, disposition, feature, grain, kidney, kind, letter, loathsomeness, mettle, nature, patchiness, sort, spirit, stamp, state, temper), categorie (category, class, colour, description, grade, kind, manner, nature, order, predicament, run, sort, species, type, weight), colora (blush, colour, dye, exaggerate, flush, paint, stain, tincture, tinge, tint), colorit (cast, colour, colouring, hue, shade), culoare (colour, colouring, dye, flush, hue, relief, straight, tincture, tinge, tint), pretext (blind, colour, cover, excuse, ground, guise, handle, mask, occasion, pretence, pretext, veil), drapel (banner, colour, colours, ensign, flag, standard), naturã (character, colour, disposition, fiber, fibre, kidney, kind, life, mother nature, nature, spirit), nuanţã (cast, colour, hue, key, nuance, savor, savour, shade, shadow, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, touch), înfrumuseţa (adorn, beautify, blazon, colour, decorate, embellish, flatter, gild, glorify, grace, lace, ornament, paint, set), poziţie individualã (colour, personal position), vopsi (coat, colour, daub, dye, paint, paint out, stain, stencil, tincture, tinge, tint, whitewash), prezenta ceva în culori frumoase (colour), punct de vedere (angle, aspect, colour, lookout, mind, opinion, outlook, part, point, regard, sentiment, standpoint, view point), roşeaţã (colour, glow, pinkness, redness), roşu (ablush, aglow, blood red, blushing, carroty, colour, copper-colored, copper-coloured, florid, fox-colored, fox-coloured, foxy, hearts, incarnadine, lurid, red, red-cheeked, rouge, scarlet, Sorrel), se colora (colour, dye), steag (banner, colour, flag, gonfalon, pendant, standard, streamer), substanţã (colour, essence, gist, mass, material, matter, paregoric, stuff, substance), ton (accent, colour, key, mood, song, sound, stop, strain, timbre, tone, tune), vopsea (colour, dye, paint, paintwork, stain, Stainer, tincture, tinge), pigment (colour, lake, pigment). (various references) | |
Romansch | colur. (various references) | |
Romany | tsvyàtoos. (various references) | |
Russian | раскрасить (colour, paint), раскрашивать (colour, pencil), цвет (bloom, blossom, blow, colour, dye, flower, hue), тон (colour, sound, tinge, tint, tone, tune), краска (colour, dye, mascara, paint, tint), красить (colour, dye, paint, stain), оттенок (colour, contrast, nuance, savor, savour, shade, shade of, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, touch, undertone), окрашиваться (colour), окрашивать цвет цветной, окрашивать (colour, paint the), зардеться (colour), покраснеть (colour), подкрасить (colour, touch up), пигмент (colour, colourant, pigment). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obojiti (colour, paint, stain, tincture, tinge), obojenost (coloration, coloring, colour, colouring), kolor (colour), boja (colour, dye, hue, marking, paint, pigment, stain, suit, tincture, tint). (various references) | |
Shona | ruvara. (various references) | |
Spanish | color (colour, dye, flush, hue, tail, tint). (various references) | |
Swazi | bâla. (various references) | |
Swedish | färg (coloring, colour, colouring, complexion, dye, hue, ink, paint, shade, suit, timbre), kulör (colour). (various references) | |
Thai | สีน้ำมัน (oil color, oil colour, oil paint). (various references) | |
Turkish | canlılık (alacrity, animation, bounce, brightness, brio, buoyancy, colour, crispness, dynamics, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, quickness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, sprightliness, stamina, stir, verve, vivacity, vividness), maske (colour, disguise, guise, mask, shape, veil, visor, vizor), abartmak (aggrandize, balloon, carry things too far, carry to excess, colour, dramatize, draw the longbow, drow the long bow, embellish, embroider, enhance, exaggerate, fudge, glorify, heighten, lay it on, lay it on thickly, lay it on with a trowel, magnify, overcharge, overdo, overstate, pile it on, pile on the agony, put it on, put it on thick, put on, shoot off one's mouth, slobber over, stretch), bet beniz (color of the face, colour), boya (coloring, colour, colouring, dye, paint, polish, stain), boyamak (color-wash, colour, decorate, dye, engrain, imbrue, paint, polish, stain, wash), dış görünüş (appearance, colour, disguise, externals, façade, fashion, get up, guise, rind, semblance, shape, shell, superficies, surface, the outer man, varnish), forma (colour, forme, school uniform, sportsgear, strip, uniform), gerçek yüz (colour), çarpıtmak (angle, colour, contort, distort, garble, make awry, make crooked, pervert, skew, slant, strain, torture, twist, warp, wrench, wrest, wring), kızarmak (be fried, be roasted, be toasted, blush, Brown, color up, colour, colour up, crimson, flame, glow, go red, redden, toast, turn red), yüz rengi (coloring, colour, colouring), nüans (cast, chord, colour, nuance, shade, shading), renk (coloring, colour, colouring, complexion, dye, flush, hue, tincture, tint), renk katmak (adorn, colour, embellish, relieve), renk vermek (colour, pigment, show, tint), renklendirmek (clothe, colour, stain, tinge, variegate), saptırmak (angle, call away, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, deviate, distort, draw off, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, sway, swerve, veer, veer round, vitiate, warp, wring), ten rengi (buff, colour, complexion, flesh-color, flesh-colored, flesh-colour, flesh-coloured, nude), ton (cast, chord, colour, gradation, long ton, manner, metric ton, short ton, tint, ton, tone, tonicity, tonne, value), içyüzü (colour, low down, lowdown, penetralia). (various references) | |
Turkmen | reсklemek (paint), reсk (paint). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рум'янець (bloom, colour, flush, glow, ruddiness), червоніти (blush, colour, crimson, mantle, overflush), фарбувати (bepaint, dye, imbue, paint), фарба (acrylic, colour, dipper, dye, paint, suffusion, tincture, tint), колір (colour, dye, hue), забарвлювати (colour, hue), забарвлення (coloration, coloring, colour, colouration, colouring, dye), прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish). (various references) | |
Welsh | coluro (conceal, paint), lliwio (dye), arlliwio (paint, tint). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | zib. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | chroma. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cocci, coccino, coccinum, cocco, coccoque, coccum, coccumque, color, colorem, contigerat, contigerit, contigerunt, contigisse, contigisset, contigit, contingat, contingatis, contingebant, contingebat, contingent, contingere, continget, contingetis, contingi, contingit, contingunt, fuco, infecta, infectum, intinctum, intinguat, intinguatur, intingue, intingues, intinguet, intinguit, intinxerit, intinxisset, intinxit, multicoloria, tingere. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | gaonem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh mequskesqe oinw alla omileite anqrwpoiV dikaioiV kai omileite en peripatoiV ean gar eiV taV fialaV kai ta pothria dwV touV ofqalmouV sou usteron peripathseiV gumnoteroV uperou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne intuearis vinum quando flavescit cum splenduerit in vitro color eius ingreditur blande |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ne beholde thou the win, whan it floureth, whan shal shine in the verr the colour of it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | Dili ka magtan-aw sa vino kong kini magapula, Kong kini magapangidlap sulod sa copa, Sa diha nga kini magaagay nga mahapsay: |
| Croatian | Ne gledaj na vino kad rujno iskri, kad se u èaši svjetlucavo prelijeva: pije se tako glatko, |
| Danish | Se ikke til Vinen, hvor rød den er, hvorledes den perler i Bægeret; den glider så glat, |
| Dutch | Zie den wijn niet aan, als hij zich rood vertoont, als hij in den beker zijn verve geeft, als hij recht opgaat; |
| Finnish | Älä katsele viiniä, kuinka se punoittaa, kuinka se maljassa hohtaa ja helposti valahtaa alas. |
| French | Ne regarde pas le vin qui paraît d`un beau rouge, Qui fait des perles dans la coupe, Et qui coule aisément. |
| German | Siehe den Wein nicht an, daß er so rot ist und im Glase so schön steht. Er geht glatt ein; |
| Hungarian | Ne nézd a bort, mily veres színt játszik, mint mutatja a pohárban az õ csillogását; könnyen alá csuszamlik, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Janganlah membiarkan anggur menggodamu, sekalipun warnanya sangat menarik dan nampaknya berkilauan dalam gelas serta mengalir masuk dengan nikmat ke dalam tenggorokan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jangan engkau pandang akan air anggur apabila merah rupanya, apabila ia berkilat dalam piala serta buihnya naik ke atas. |
| Maori | Kaua e titiro ki te waina i te mea e whero ana, ina puta tona kara i roto i te kapu, ina mania tona heke. |
| Norwegian | Se ikke til vinen, hvor rød den er, hvorledes den perler i begeret, hvor lett den går ned! |
| Portuguese | Não olhes para o vinho quando se mostra vermelho, quando resplandece no copo e se escoa suavemente. |
| Rumanian | Nu te uita la vin cknd curge row wi face mqrgqritare kn pahar; el alunecq uwor, |
| Russian | оЕ УНПФТЙ ОБ ЧЙОП, ЛБЛ ПОП ЛТБУОЕЕФ, ЛБЛ ПОП ЙУЛТЙФУС Ч ЮБЫЕ, ЛБЛ ПОП ХИБЦЙЧБЕФУС ТПЧОП: |
| Spanish | No mires el vino cuando rojea, cuando resplandece su color en la copa, cuando entra suavemente. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "color": colorable, colorably, colorado, colorant, colorants, coloration, colorations, coloratura, coloraturas, colorblind, colorblindness, colorblindnesses, colorbred, colorectal, colored, coloreds, colorer, colorers, colorfast, colorfastness, colorfastnesses, colorful, colorfully, colorfulness, colorfulnesses, colorific, colorimeter, colorimeters, colorimetric, colorimetrically, colorimetries, colorimetry, coloring, colorings, colorism, colorisms, colorist, coloristic, coloristically, colorists, colorization, colorizations, colorize, colorized, colorizes, colorizing, colorless, colorlessly, colorlessness, colorlessnesses, colorman. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "color": bicolor, decolor, discolor, miscolor, multicolor, noncolor, recolor, tricolor, unicolor, watercolor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "color": bicolored, bicolors, decolored, decoloring, decolorization, decolorizations, decolorize, decolorized, decolorizer, decolorizers, decolorizes, decolorizing, decolors, discoloration, discolorations, discolored, discoloring, discolors, miscolored, miscoloring, miscolors, multicolored, multicolors, noncolored, noncolorfast, noncolors, recolored, recoloring, recolors, tricolored, tricolors, uncolored, varicolored, watercolorist, watercolorists, watercolors. (additional references) | |
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"Color" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calob, calor, cenlor, chlor, cholo, cholor, cilo, clir, cloo, Cloob, clook, clor, clori, cloro, clur, cnlor, Coalcorp, cocorp, codor, Coelho, Coelorum, cohork, Cohorn, colar, Colart, Colbourn, coler, colere, coleur, colio, collor, coloe, colom, Colora, Colorama, colorap, Colorpro, colou, Colpoy, Colron, comor, conler, conor, Coolroe, Coonoor, Coor, coori, Cosloy, Coulbourn, Cukor, culo, culot, Ecolo, econor, Kloof, Kolfor, Kolov, Kouloura, oclar, ocler, Oclo, olor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "color" (pronounced ku"ler or kô"ler) |
| 4 | k u" l er | Culler, Discolor, multicolor, noncolor. |
| 3 | -u" l er | duller, Muller. |
| 4 | k ô" l er | caller. |
| 3 | -ô" l er | baller, faller, hauler, installer, mauler, smaller, taller, trawler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cool, loco. | |
-2 letters: col, coo, cor, loo, orc, roc. | |
-3 letters: lo, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: colors, colour, cooler. | |
+2 letters: bicolor, brocoli, carpool, colored, colorer, colours, control, coolers, corolla, coronal, coronel, couloir, creosol, criollo, decolor, locator, oarlock, orcinol, precool, recolor, rowlock. | |
+3 letters: bicolors, bicolour, borecole, broccoli, brocolis, carpools, chlorous, clubroom, clubroot, coholder, colessor, colewort, coliform, collator, colorado, colorant, coloreds, colorers, colorful, coloring, colorism, colorist, colorize, colorman, colormen, coloured, colourer, condoler, consoler, controls, corollas, coronals, coronels, corporal, cortisol, couloirs, creosols, criollos, decolors, decolour, discolor, doctoral, forelock, locators, locutory, lordotic, miscolor, noncolor, oarlocks, orcinols, overcold, overcool, precools, protocol, recolors, reschool, rowlocks, tricolor, unicolor, urologic. | |
| 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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