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Multicolored

Definition: Multicolored

Multicolored

Adjective

1. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies".

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

Date "multicolored" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)


Synonyms: Multicolored

Synonyms: motley (adj), multicolor (adj), multicolour (adj), multicoloured (adj), painted (adj), particolored (adj), particoloured (adj), piebald (adj), pied (adj), varicolored (adj), varicoloured (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Multicolored

English words defined with "multicolored": Badlands National Park, Bruce Canyon National Parkcoleusflame nettlemotley. (references)
Specialty definitions using "multicolored": Chromosome PaintingDECORATING-MACHINE OPERATORmud potOFFICE COPY SELECTORPROOFER, PREPRESSSCREEN-PRINTING-EQUIPMENT SETTER, SCREEN-PRINTING-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER, SECTION LEADER, SCREEN PRINTING, SLATE MIXER, STRIPING-MACHINE OPERATOR, SUPERVISOR, SCREEN PRINTINGTABLE-TOP TILE SETTERWHITE-SHOE RAGGER, working second hand. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Multicolored

DomainTitle

Books

  • Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl (Women in Southern Culture, 2) (reference)

  • Multicolored Mirror: Cultural Substance in Literature for Children and Young Adults (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Multicolored

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Photo Album: Multicolored

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A dinner is set up on black, gold-rimmed dishes on a black tabletop. There is a mug, a bowl of cut strawberries, and a plate full of green beans, small potatoes and roast beef. A dark multicolored napkin with gold thread is curved around the plate. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A brown-beige-white plate sits on a sand-colored table. On the plate is cottage cheese, strawberries, kiwi fruit, cantaloupe, orange slices and rasberries. Next to the plate are 2 slices of dark bread and a multicolored napkin and a fork. There is a glass of iced tea in the background with lemon garnish. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

The Asian multicolored lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, is easy to identify from its false "eyes"-- twin white football-shaped markings behind the head. In color, the insects range from black to mustard, with zero to many spots. A common U.S. form is mustard to red and has 16 or more black spots. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

  

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

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Expression: Multicolored

Expression using "multicolored": motley multicolor culticolour multicolored multicoloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Multicolored

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

louis multicolored vuitton

3

hair multicolored

2

multicolored newspaper

2

multicolored

2

mineral multicolored

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Multicolored

Language Translations for "multicolored"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me ngjyra (chromatic, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, non-ferrous), shumëngjyrësh (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كثير الألوان (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, various), ‏متعدد الألوان (fancy, motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychromic, varicolored, versicolored, versicoloured). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разноцветен (motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), многоцветен (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, multiflorous, polychromatic, polychrome, rainbow). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

多彩多姿. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mnohobarevný (multicoloured), vícebarevný (multicoloured, polychromatic). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

رنگارنگ (Colorful, Kaleidoscopic, Medley, Motley, Piebald, Pied, Varied). (various references)

   

French

  

multicolore (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured). (various references)

   

German

  

mehrfarbig (multicoloured, polychromatic, polychrome, varicolored, varicoloured). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

με πολλά χρώματα (multicoloured), πολύχρωμοσ (kaleidoscopic, multicoloured, pavonine). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רב 'ו י (diversified, manifold, particolored, polychromatic, variegated), רב צבעים (multicoloured, polychromatic), סס'ו י (colourful, gorgeous, motley, multicoloured, picturesque, varicolored, variegated). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tarka (brindled, calico, chequered, colorful, colourful, dappled, fancy, freaked, gaudy, laced, medley, mottled, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, Pinto, polychromatic, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), sokszínû (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, polychromatic, polychrome, varicolored, varicoloured). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pancawarna. (various references)

   

Italian

  

multicolore (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, varicolored, varicoloured), variopinto (multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured), variegato (dappled, diversified, multicoloured, streaked, variegated). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

何色搨 (multicolored printing), 多色刷り (multicolored printing). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たしょくずり (multicolored printing), な"しょくずり (multicolored printing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulticoloredmay

   

Portuguese

  

multicor (motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured), multicolorido (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

multicolor (fancy, many-colored, many-coloured, motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

многоцветный (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, polychromatic). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mnogobojan (colorful, colourful, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychrome), raznobojan (colorful, colourful, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), šaren (gay, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, printed, skewbald, speckled, spotted, variegated). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

multicolor (candy-striped, many-colored, many-coloured, motley, mottled, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, rainbow). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flerfärgstryck (multicolor process printing, multicolour process printing, multicoloured, multi-coloured, process-printing), flerfärgad (multicoloured). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

renk renk (motley, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), rengârenk (colorful, colourful, harlequin, lithochromatic, motley, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, splashy, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), alacalı (dappled, harlequin, mottled, multicoloured, piebald), çok renkli (harlequin, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychrome). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

багатоколірний (many-colored, many-coloured, multicoloured), багатобарвний (multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, rainbow, varicolored, varicoloured). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Multicolored

Misspellings

"Multicolored" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: muticoloured. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Multicolored"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "multicolored" (pronounced mu'ltēku"lerd)
5-k u" l er dcolored, coloured, discolored.
3-l er dantlered, bollard, Collard, collared, hollered, mallard, pillared, Pollard, steamrollered, tailored.

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

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Anagrams: Multicolored

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-l-m-o-o-r-t-u"

-2 letters: multicolor.

-3 letters: dulcimore, outrolled, turmoiled.

-4 letters: clotured, cloudier, cloudlet, coeditor, collider, colluder, coloured, decolour, dolomite, dulcimer, lemuroid, lodicule, lordotic, loudlier, microdot, morticed, mouldier, outcried, telluric, trollied.

-5 letters: cloture, cloured, clouted, clouter, collide, collied, collier, colloid, collude, colored, columel, cordite, cormoid, couloir, coulter, courted, criollo, cullied, decolor, decorum, demotic, diluter, dilutor, dormice, ductile, eductor, illumed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Multicolored


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

4D 75 6C 74 69 63 6F 6C 6F 72 65 64

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)

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

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

01001101 01110101 01101100 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101111 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#108 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 006C 0074 0069 0063 006F 006C 006F 0072 0065 0064

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

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

478778867569817881847170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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