color
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Is color a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of color?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.Examples: "Humans and birds can perceive color."Synonyms: bleeuncountable
2. A subset thereof:Examples: "Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green."; "What color are your bf's eyes?"; "Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands."Synonyms: hue, bleecountable
3. A subset thereof:Examples: "The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color."Synonyms: hue, shade, bleeuncountable
4. A subset thereof:countableuncountable
5. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.Examples: "Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies."Synonyms: complexion, ethnicity, raceuncountable
6. (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To give something color.Examples: "We could color the walls red."Synonyms: dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tintUStransitive
2. (transitive) To give something color.Synonyms: dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tintUStransitive
3. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.Examples: "My kindergartener loves to color."Synonyms: color inUSintransitive
4. (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.Examples: "Her face colored as she realized her mistake."Synonyms: blushUS
5. (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).Examples: "Color me confused."; "They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter."Synonyms: callUSinformal
6. (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.Examples: "Can this graph be 2-colored?"; "You can color any map with four colors."US
Definition source: Wiktionary