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Colorize

Definition: Colorize

Colorize

Verb

1. Add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Colorize

Synonyms: color (v), color in (v), colorise (v), colour (v), colour in (v), colourise (v), colourize (v). (additional references)
Antonym: discolor (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Colorize

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Can you colorize my life, I'm so sick of black and white (I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That); performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Colorize

DomainTitle

Books

  • Image Lab/Book and Cd: Colorize, Transform, Animate, Zoom and Morph Images on Your Pc/Book and Cd-Rom (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Colorize
 

"Colorize 3" by Domagoj T.
Commentary: "Exp. with colors and textures..."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Colorize

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

colorize

31

colorize photo

4

black colorize magic

4

black colorize photo white

3

colorize photo shop

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Colorize

Derivations

Words beginning with "colorize": colorized, colorizes. (additional references)

Words ending with "colorize": decolorize. (additional references)

Words containing "colorize": decolorized, decolorizer, decolorizers, decolorizes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Colorize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: colorise, colorism, Colourise. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Colorize"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "colorize" (pronounced ku"lerī'z)
4-l er ī' zburglarize, polarize, popularize.
3-er ī' zaccessorize, authorize, containerize, categorize, characterize, computerize, demilitarize, denuclearize, depressurize, familiarize, glamorize, memorize, mesmerize, militarize, miniaturize, mischaracterize, motorize, pasteurize, plagiarize, polymerize, pressurize, pulverize, reauthorize, rubberize, samurais, satirize, summarize, temporize, terrorize, theorize, vaporize, winterize.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Colorize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-o-r-z"

-2 letters: coiler, cooler, coolie, cozier, oozier, oriole, recoil.

-3 letters: ceorl, cloze, color, cooer, cozie, croze, looie, oiler, oleic, oorie, oriel, relic, reoil, zoril.

-4 letters: ceil, cero, cire, coil, coir, cole, cool, core, lice, lier, lire, loci, loco, lore, oleo, olio, ooze, orle, orzo, rice, riel, rile, roil, role, zero, zoic, zori.

-5 letters: cel, col, coo.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-o-r-z"
 

+1 letter: colonizer, colorized, colorizes.

 

+2 letters: coleorhiza, colonizers, decolorize, recolonize.

 

+3 letters: coleorhizae, decolorized, decolorizer, decolorizes, recolonized, recolonizes.

 

+4 letters: copolymerize, creolization, decolorizers, decolorizing, recolonizing.

 

+5 letters: copolymerized, copolymerizes, creolizations.

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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Alternative Orthography: Colorize


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 6C 6F 72 69 7A 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .-..    ---    .-.    ..    --..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01101100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

C o l o r i z e

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006C 006F 0072 0069 007A 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3781788184759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Digital Art
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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