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Definition: Colouring |
ColouringNoun1. A digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes". 2. 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". 3. The act of of process of changing the color of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "colouring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Using one or more colorants in the preparation of aromatized wines or aromatized wine-product cocktails. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ColouringSynonyms: color (n), coloring (n), colour (n), food color (n), food coloring (n), food colour (n), food colouring (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: colorlessness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Colouring |
| Specialty definitions using "colouring": Brunt-Douglas isallobaric wind ♦ constraint satisfaction, Crusted Port ♦ four colour map theorem ♦ graph coloring, graph colouring ♦ lac-dye ♦ marked gas oil, mass-coloured ♦ Painters and Artists, Pasch Eggs, Pre-Raphaelites ♦ register allocation ♦ Slap-dash, Stigmatise. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tuko-See-Mathla, a Seminole chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment, Phila. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | John Ross, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Amiskquew, a Menominie warrior / drawn, printed & col. at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hoo-Wan-Ne-Ka, a Winnebago chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pee-Che-Kir, a Chippewa chief / H.D. ; drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The first column is for choice of subject, the second for arrangement, the third for colouring. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Any other observer might have seen few but unamiable traits, and have given them a far darker colouring. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fatality has such solidarities, whereby innocence itself is impressed with crime by the gloomy law of colouring reflections. |
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| "Colouring" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.33% of the time. "Colouring" is used about 406 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) | 78.33% | 318 | 16,181 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 21.67% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Total | 100.00% | 406 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "colouring": chemical colouring ♦ colouring agent ♦ colouring book ♦ colouring material ♦ colouring matter ♦ colouring matters ♦ colouring power ♦ colouring principle ♦ food colouring ♦ graph colouring ♦ protective colouring. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "colouring": colouring-free, colouring-in. | |
Ending with "colouring": hand-colouring, re-colouring, relief-colouring, rich-colouring, skin-colouring. | |
| 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 "colouring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngjyrosje (coloring, dyeing), lyerje (clearing, coloring, dab, dash, daub, dying, painting, whitewashing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تلويين (coloring), صبغة (coloring, nature, stain, tincture), أسلوب الرسام (coloring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цвят на лицето (coloring, complexion), цвят (bloom, blossom, blow, color, coloring, colour, flower, hue, inflorescence, pick, suit, tint, tone), колорит (color, coloring, colour, race), влияние (action, coloring, credit, dominance, domination, drag, effect, empire, force, grip, gripe, hold, impact, influence, interest, leaven, prestige, pull, punch, purchase, reach, stimulus, sway), оцветяване (coloration, coloring, colouration, staining), оцветител (color additive, coloring, colour additive, paint, staining), преиначаване (coloring, subreption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 着色 (Coloration, Coloring, Pigmented, tinged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zkreslovaní (coloring), zkreslení (coloring, defacement, distortion), zbarvení (coloring, marking), přibarvování (coloring), barvivo (coloring, dye, pigment), barvicí prostředek (coloring), barva oblièeje (coloring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | farvning (coloration, colour, dyeing), farvelægning, farve (colour, dye, paint, tint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kleuring. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | värjääminen, väriaine (colouring agent, pigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coloriage, coloration (coloration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | färbung (coloration, coloring, hue, pigmentation, tinge), farbgebung (coloration, coloring, tone), färbend (coloring, dyeing, tincturing, tinging, tinting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαφή (dye, dying, pigment, pigmentation, polishing, stain, tincture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'וון (diversification, diversity, toning, variegation, variety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | színezés (coloration, coloring, colouration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coloritura (coloring), colorazione (coloration, coloring, colour, colouration, tint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 色気 (a shade of colour, charm, desire, glamor, interest in the opposite sex, poetry, romance, seductiveness, sensuality, sex appeal, sexual passion), 着色 (coloring), 彩色 (colouration, painting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいしょく (colouration, painting, vegetable diet, wit and beauty), さいしき (colouration, painting, rites, rituals), いろけ (a shade of colour, charm, desire, glamor, interest in the opposite sex, poetry, romance, seductiveness, sensuality, sex appeal, sexual passion), ちゃくしょく (coloring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 그림물감 (Coloring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olouringcay coloração (color, coloring, colour, colouration, tinge). (various references) culoare (color, colour, dye, flush, hue, relief, straight, tincture, tinge, tint), colorit (cast, color, colour, hue, shade), colorare (dyeing), substanţã colorantã (dyestuff). (various references) красящее вещество (coloring, dyestuff, dye-stuff, stain), колорит (coloring), окраска (coloration, coloring, colouration, dye, marking, paint, painting). (various references) obojenost (color, coloration, coloring, colour), kolorit (coloring). (various references) colorido (color, coloration, coloring, colour), coloreado (colored), colorante (Browning, coloring, coloring matter, colouring matter, dye, dyestuff, tail), coloración (coloration, colouration, marking), iluminación (afterlight, illumination, lighting). (various references) kolorit (coloring), falskt sken (coloring), färgning (dyeing), färglag (coloring), färgläggning (coloring), färgbehandling (coloring), färg (color, coloring, colour, complexion, dye, hue, ink, paint, shade, suit, timbre). (various references) yanıltıcı görünüş (coloring), yüz rengi (color, coloring, colour), renklendirme (coloration, coloring, embellishment, staining, toning), renk (color, coloring, colour, complexion, dye, flush, hue, tincture, tint), boyama (coloring, color-wash, dye, dyeing, painting, stain), boya (color, coloring, colour, dye, paint, polish, stain). (various references) відчуття кольору (coloring), забарвлення (color, coloration, coloring, colour, colouration, dye), барвник (coloring, dye-stuff, dye-ware, pigment, stain). (various references) cách tô m u bề ngo i, vẻ (aspect, cast, colour, manner, note, spice, tang), tóc (hair, lock), sắc thái (colour, nuance, shading), phẩm m u cách dùng m u. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "colouring": decolouring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: clouring, coloring, unicolor, urologic. | |
-2 letters: cooling, couloir, curling, locoing, louring, orcinol. | |
-3 letters: cluing, coloni, colour, colugo, congou, cooing, coring, curing, logion, looing, luring, ruling, unclog, uncoil, uncool. | |
-4 letters: cling, clour, clung, cogon, coign, colin, colog, colon, color, congo, corgi, cornu, croon, cuing, curio, giron, gluon, groin, guiro, igloo, incog, incur, lingo, logic, logoi, lungi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: neurologic. | |
+2 letters: croquignole, decolouring. | |
+3 letters: croquignoles, neurological, overclouding, supercooling, undercooling. | |
+4 letters: bloodcurdling, fluoroscoping, incongruously, macroglobulin, numerological. | |
+5 letters: congratulation, hemoglobinuric, macroglobulins, neurologically. | |
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