Light-colored

Definition: Light-colored

Light-colored

Adjective

1. (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent; "light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder".

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

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

Mining

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Synonym: Light-colored

Crosswords: Light-colored

Center pivot irrigation systems created these circular patterns in crop land near Garden City, Kansas. The red circles indicate irrigated crops of healthy vegetation. The light-colored circles represent harvested crops.. Credit: NASA.

In a small corner of the vast Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia, large sand dunes -the only sand in this desert of scrub and rock- appear as lines stretching from left to right. The light-colored fan shapes are scars from wildfires. Credit: NASA.

Light-colored area is dredge material deposited during maintenance of channels in Mississippi Delta. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"Right Hand Salute! -- As the body of Lieutenant Commander Omar R. Ford, USN, one of 44 officers and men who lost their lives in USS Oriskany October 26 fire tragedy, is committed to the deep from Oriskany's flight deck during memorial services at sea in the Western Pacific, November 6, en route to San Diego, California. Fire-scarred Oriskany departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, for San Diego November 3." (quoted from the original caption released with this image) Note Oriskany's insignia on the light-colored flag, at right, and three destroyers steaming alongside. Nearest destroyer is USS Chevalier (DD-805). Next outboard is USS Gurke (DD-783). Photographed by JOC Dick Wood. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed on the Western Rivers, circa 1864-65. Note pilothouse constructed atop her armored conning tower, deckhouse constructed forward of her paddle box, and light-colored five-pointed stars mounted on the fronts of her smokestacks. Credit: NAVY.

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Health

Light-colored stools. (references)

To make it easy to detect ticks, people should wear light-colored clothing. (references)

Wear light-colored clothing -- this will allow you to see ticks that are crawling on your clothing. (references)

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Chinese 

淡色 (light-coloured, Pastel). (various references)

German

hell (blond, bright, brightly, brilliantly, broad, clear, fair, flaming, great, high pitched, intelligent, light, lucid, pale, pure, ringing, sheer, smart, stark, utter, vivid). (various references)

Pig Latin

ight-coloredlay.(various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: rhodolite, theologic.

-4 letters: chloride, chlorite, choreoid, chortled, clothier, coeditor, coholder, collider, eldritch, girlhood, gloriole, goodlier, lordotic, oilcloth, regolith, thrilled, trochoid, trollied.

-5 letters: cheloid, cheroot, chilled, chiller, chlorid, choired, choregi, choroid, chortle, clothed, collide, collied, collier, colloid, colored, cordite, criollo, decolor, delight, dhootie, ditcher, eldrich, ergodic, ergotic, girthed, glochid, gloried, godlier, grilled, hilloed, hogtied.