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Noun colouring has 3 senses
- coloring, colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour - a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"
--1 is a kind of foodstuff, food product
- color, colour, coloring, colouring - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
--2 is a kind of visual property
--2 has particulars: | | heather mixture, heather; shade, tint, tincture, tone; chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour; achromatic color, achromatic colour; coloration, colouration; complexion, skin color, skin colour; nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour |
- coloring, colouring - the act or process of changing the color of something
--3 is a kind of change of color
--3 has particulars: tinting; hair coloring; dyeing
Verb colour has 6 senses
- color, colour - modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
--1 is one way to influence, act upon, work
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- color, colour, emblazon - decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
--2 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
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- color, colour, gloss - gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
--3 is one way to apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
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- tinge, color, colour, distort - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
--4 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
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- color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- discolor, discolour, colour, color - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
--6 is one way to change
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